PENSUM ENG123 – British Literature (15 studiepoeng)
Spring 2009
Buying texts
Texts marked with * should be purchased separately in the editions recommended.
Please DO NOT purchase other editions – it is important for class discussion that
everyone has the same version. The exception is the Shakespeare text, where
comparison of the two editions will be important in seminar work.
The remaining texts are included in the ENG123/4 Course Compendium, available in
Studia.
The TRUST programme
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 find a password and username on My Space (Mi side).
The programme includes these poems: ‘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
EITHER
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 Milton, Sonnet XVI, `When I consider how my light is spent,´ Sonnet XV,
`Avenge O Lord´
Alexander Pope, Epistle IV, `To Richard Boyle, Earl of Burlington On the Use of
Riches´
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’
William Blake, `America: A Prophecy´
Percy Bysshe Shelley, ‘England in 1819,’ ‘Ode to the West Wind’
John Keats, ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’
Lord Alfred Tennyson, ‘The Charge of the Light Brigade’
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’
Charlotte Bronte, Shirley. Penguin.*
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’
W. B.Yeats, ‘Easter, 1916,’ ‘The Second Coming’
W. H. Auden, ‘Musée des Beaux Arts,’ ‘September 1, 1939’
Louis MacNeice, ‘Bagpipe Music’
Stevie Smith, ‘Marriage I think’
Philip Larkin, `Going, Going,´ `High Windows´
Derek Walcott, ‘A Far Cry from Africa’
Seamus Heaney, ‘Punishment,’ ‘Alphabets’
J.H. Prynne, `Thoughts on the Esterhazy Court Uniform´
Tony Harrison, `V.´
Prose:
Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer. Ed. Daniel R. Schwarz. Bedford.*
T.S.Eliot, ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’
Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse, Penguin, 2004*
J. M. Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians. Vintage, 2004*
Doris Lessing, The Grass Is Singing. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2008*
James Joyce, ‘The Dead’
Katherine Mansfield, ‘Bliss’
Drama:
G. B. Shaw, Saint Joan. Ed. Dan H. Laurence. Introduction by Imogen Stubbs.
Penguin Classics, 2001.*
Samuel Beckett: Endgame. Faber.*
Sarah Kane, Cleansed. Methuen.*
Reference:
M. H. Abrams, A Glossary of Literary Terms. 7th ed. Holt, Rinehart and Winston,
1998.*
Paul Poplawski, ed. English Literature in Context. Cambridge University Press,
2008.*
Jeremy Black, A History of the British Isles. Palgrave Macmillan, 2002.*