PENSUM ENG123 – British Literature (15 studiepoeng)
Spring 2007
Please note
Texts marked with * should be purchased separately in the editions recommended.
The other texts (poems, short fiction and other prose) are included in a Compendium
marked ENG123/124, which will be available in Studia at the beginning of term.
As part of your preparation for the course you are expected to make use of the interactive TRUST programme, which contains texts, notes and suggestions about how to
read and discuss poetry.
To use the programme (http://www.hf.uib.no/hfolk/mlab/EngMP/mcEng.html) you
will need to collect a password and username from the English Department Office.
The following poems are included in the TRUST web-pages: ”Tintern Abbey,”
”Kubla Khan,” ”England in 1819,” ”Ode to the West Wind,” La Belle Dame sans
Merci.” ”The Second Coming,” ”Anthem for Doomed Youth,” Musée des Beaux
Arts.”
Shakespeare
Macbeth. Ed. Nicholas Brooke. Oxford World’s Classics. Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 1998.* Or
Macbeth. Ed. A.R. Braunmuller. The New Cambridge Shakespeare. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1997.*
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Poetry:
John Donne, ”A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning,” ”Batter my heart, three person’d God”
George Herbert, ”The Collar”
Henry Vaughan, ”The Night”
Andrew Marvell, ”To His Coy Mistress”
John Dryden, “To the Memory of Mr. Oldham”
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, “The Lover: a ballad”
Thomas Gray, “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
Prose:
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe. Ed. Cowley. Oxford World’s Classics.*
Jonathan Swift, “A Modest Proposal”
Nineteenth Century
Poetry:
William Wordsworth, ”Tintern Abbey”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ”Kubla Khan”
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ”England in 1819,” ”Ode to the West Wind”
John Keats, ”La Belle Dame sans Merci”
Lord Alfred Tennyson, ”Tears, Idle Tears”
Robert Browning, “My Last Duchess”
Elizabeth Browning, ”If thou must love me”
Christina Rossetti, ”Song (’When I am dead, my dearest’)”
Matthew Arnold, ”Dover Beach”
Prose:
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein. Ed. Maurice Hindle. Penguin.*
Thomas Carlyle, “Signs of the Times”
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. Caldwell. Oxford University Press.*
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer. Ed. Daniel R. Schwarz. Bedford.*
Drama:
G. B. Shaw, Major Barbara. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Introduction by Margery Morgan.
Penguin Classics.
Twentieth Century
Poetry:
Thomas Hardy, ”The Darkling Thrush”
Wilfred Owen, ”Dulce et decorum est”
Siegfried Sassoon, ”Counter-Attack”
Edward Thomas, ”The Glory”
T. E. Hulme, ”Images”
T. S. Eliot, ”Preludes”
Ezra Pound, ”In A Station of the Metro”
Hilda Doolittle (’HD’), ”Oread”
James Joyce, ”I Hear an Army”
W. B.Yeats, ”Easter, 1916,” ”The Second Coming”
W. H. Auden, ”Musée des Beaux Arts,” ”Lullaby (’Lay your sleeping head’)”
Louis MacNeice, ”Bagpipe Music”
Stevie Smith, ”Marriage I think”
Derek Walcott, ”A Far Cry from Africa”
Seamus Heaney, ”Punishment,” ”Alphabets”
Paul Muldoon, ”October, 1950”
Prose:
T.S.Eliot, “Tradition and the Individual Talent”
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Penguin, 2004*
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians. Vintage, 2004*
James Joyce, ”The Dead”
Katherine Mansfield, ”The Garden Party”
William Trevor, ”The Distant Past,” ”The Potato Dealer,” ”Against the Odds”
Drama:
Samuel Beckett: Endgame. Faber.*
Sarah Kane, Cleansed. Methuen.*
Reference:
Michael Alexander, A History of English Literature, Macmillan, 2000.*
(Chapter 4: Shakespeare and the drama, and Chapters 7-14).
M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th ed. Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1998.*
Jeremy Black, A History of the British Isles. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.* Or
Mustad and Rahbek (eds.), A Short Introduction to the History of the United
Kingdom, Fagbokforlaget, 2006.*