2017 GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST

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1 2017 GENERAL COMPREHENSIVE EXAM READING LIST POETRY 1. Beowulf (in translation) 2. Shorter Old English Poetry (in translation): The Wanderer; The Seafarer; The Dream of the Rood 3. Chaucer, Geoffrey. The Canterbury Tales ( The General Prologue, The Miller s Prologue and Tale, The Wife of Bath s Prologue and Tale, The Franklin s Prologue and Tale, The Pardoner s Prologue and Tale ) 4. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (in translation) 5. Sidney, Philip. Astrophil and Stella (1591) [selections from the Norton Anthology of English Literature: #1, 2, 5, 6, 7, 9, 10, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 27, 28, 31, 33, 34, 37, 39, 41, 45, 49, 52, 53, 54, 56, 61, 69, 71, 72, 74, 81, Fourth song, 87, 89, 91, 94, Eleventh song, 106, 108] 6. Spenser, Edmund. The Faerie Queene, Book 1 (1591) 7. Shakespeare, William. Selections from Sonnets [#3, 18, 20, 29, 30, 55, 60, 73, 94, 104, 129, 130, 138, 144 and 151] (1609) 8. Lanyer, Aemilia. From Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum: "To the Virtuous Reader," "Eve's Apology in Defense of Women" (1611); "The Description of Cooke-ham" (1611) 9. Jonson, Ben. "To Penshurst" (1616); "To my First Son" (1616); "To my First Daughter" (1616) 10. Wroth, Mary. Urania, sonnets 6, 9, 14, 19, 22, 27, 32, 48, "A Crown of Sonnets Dedicated to Love" (1621) 11. Donne, John. "The good-morrow"; "The sunne Rising"; "The Canonization"; "The Flea"; "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"; Elegy 16, Elegy 19 (1633) 12. Herbert, George. "The Altar"; "Easter Wings" 13. Marvell, Andrew. "To His Coy Mistress"; "The Garden"; "Upon Appleton House" (1651); "Bermudas" (1681) 14. Milton, John. Paradise Lost, Books 1, 2, 4, 9 (1667-8); Lycidas; Sonnet XVI: When I Consider how my Light is Spent 15. Pope, Alexander. The Rape of the Lock (1714); Essay on Criticism, Bk 1 (1711) 16. Gray, Thomas. Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1751); Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes 17. Wordsworth, William "Lines" (Tintern Abbey 1800), "Ode: Intimations of Immortality"(1807) 18. Coleridge, S.T. "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner," "Dejection, an Ode" (1817)

2 19. Keats, John. "Ode to a Nightingale" Ode on a Grecian Urn," "The Eve of St. Agnes" (1820) 20. Shelley, P.B. Ozymandias" (1818), "Ode to the West Wind" (1820), "To a Skylark" (1820) 21. Tennyson, Lord Alfred. "The Lady of Shalott" (1842), "Ulysses" (1842), selected poems from In Memoriam A.H.H.(1850): for instance, the Prologue, cantos 1, 5, 27, 50, 54, 55, 56, 82, 131, and the Epilogue, or comparable selection from a major literature anthology. 22. Browning, Robert. "Porphyria's Lover" (1836), "My Last Duchess" (1842), "Andrea del Sarto" (1855) 23. Poe, Edgar Allan. The Raven (1845) 24. Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. "How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways" (1850), "A Curse for a Nation" (1860) 25. Hopkins, Gerard Manley. "Carrion Comfort" (1855, pub. 1918), "God's Grandeur" (1877, pub. 1895), "The Windhover" (1877, pub. 1918)] 26. Rossetti, Christina. "Goblin Market" (1862) 27. Dickinson, Emily. There s a certain slant of light (1861); I died for Beauty but was scarce (1862); Because I could not stop for Death (1863); Tell all the Truth but tell it slant (1868); After great pain, a formal feeling (1862); I heard a Fly buzz when I died (1862); My Life had stood a Loaded Gun (1863) 28. Whitman, Walt. Song of Myself ( ) 29. Crawford, Isabella Valancy. Malcolm s Katie (1884), The Dark Stag (1884) 30. Carman, Bliss. Low Tide on Grand Pré (1894) 31. Johnson, E. Pauline. In the Shadows (1894), A Cry from an Indian Wife (1895) 32. Pound, Ezra. Portrait d une Femme (1912), In a Station of the Metro (1913) 33. Stein, Gertrude. Section I ( Objects ) from Tender Buttons (1914) 34. Eliot, T. S. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (1917), The Waste Land (1922) 35. Frost, Robert. Mending Wall (1914), Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening (1923) 36. Owen, Wilfred. "Anthem for Doomed Youth" (1920), "Dulce et Decorum Est" (1920), "Arms and the Boy" (1920) 37. Yeats, W. B. "Easter 1916," (1916), "The Second Coming" (1921), "Leda and the Swan" (1924), "Sailing to Byzantium" (1927), "Among School Children" (1927) 38. Williams, William Carlos. The Red Wheelbarrow (1923), This Is Just to Say (1934), Nantucket (1938), Pictures from Brueghel (1961) 39. Smith, A. J. M. To a Young Poet (1934), The Lonely Land (1936)

3 40. Hughes, Langston. Let America Be America Again (1938) 41. Auden, W. H. "Musée des Beaux Arts," (1940), "In Memory of W. B. Yeats," (1940), The Shield of Achilles 42. Livesay, Dorothy. Day and Night (1944), Call My People Home (1968) 43. Sitwell, Edith. "The Canticle of the Rose" (1948) 44. Larkin, Philip. ""Church Going" (1954), The Whitsun Weddings" (1958), "High Windows" (1967) 45. Layton, Irving. The Birth of Tragedy (1954), Butterfly on Rock (1963) 46. Smith, Stevie. "Not Waving But Drowning" (1957), "To Carry the Child" (1966), "Pretty" (1966) 47. Hughes, Ted. "The Thought-Fox" (1957), "Pike" (1960), "View of a Pig" (1960), "Out" (1967), "Wodwo" (1967), "Pibroch" (1967) 48. Brooks, Gwendolyn. The Bean Eaters (1960) 49. Plath, Sylvia. Ariel (1965), Daddy (1965), Lady Lazarus (1965) 50. Atwood, Margaret. The Progressive Insanities of a Pioneer (1968), Notes towards a Poem that can never be Written (1987) 51. Nichol, bp. The True Eventual Story of Billy the Kid (1970) 52. Rich, Adrienne. Diving Into the Wreck (1973) 53. Heaney, Seamus, "Punishment" (1975), "Singing School" (1975), Digging" (1966) 54. Ondaatje, Michael. White Dwarfs (1973), The Cinnamon Peeler (1982) 55. Kroetsch, Robert. Seed Catalogue (1977) 56. Nichols, Grace. "The Fat Black Woman Remembers" (1984), "The Fat Black Woman Versus Politics" (1984), "Skanking Englishman Between Trains" (1984) 57. Walcott, Derek. A Far Cry from Africa 58. Carson, Anne. Tangos I-VIII from The Beauty of the Husband (2001) 59. Bergvall, Caroline. "Les Jets du Poupée" (2000), "Via" (2005), "8 Figs" (2005) 60. Goodison, Lorna. Lessons Learned from the Royal Primer 61. Soyinka, Wole. Chimes of Silence 62. Harris, Claire. Death in Summer 63. Itwaru, Arnold. arrival

4 PROSE 1. Kempe, Margery. The Book of Margery Kempe (suggested edition: Ed. Lynn Staley, Norton Critical Edition) 2. Sidney, Philip. The Defense of Poesy (1595) 3. Cavendish, Margaret. Selections from The Description of a New World, Called The Blazing World (1666) [see Norton Anthology of English Literature] 4. Defoe, Daniel. Moll Flanders (1722) 5. Haywood, Eliza. Fantomina, or Love in a Maze (1725) 6. Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver s Travels, Bks I, II, and IV (1726) 7. Sterne, Laurence. A Sentimental Journey (1768) 8. Wollstonecraft, Mary. from A Vindication of the Rights of Women: Dedication to Talleyrand, chapters 2 and 6 (1792) 9. Wordsworth, William. Preface to Lyrical Ballads (1802) 10. Austen, Jane. Pride and Prejudice (1813) 11. Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein (1818) 12. Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) 13. Bronte, Charlotte. Jane Eyre (1847) 14. Moodie, Susanna. Roughing It in the Bush (1852) 15. Dickens, Charles. Great Expectations ( ) 16. Arnold, Matthew. The Function of Criticism at the present Time (1864) 17. Pater, Walter. Studies in the Renaissance: Conclusion (1871) 18. Eliot, George. Middlemarch (1872) 19. James, Henry. Daisy Miller (1879) 20. Melville, Herman. Billy Budd, Sailor (1891) 21. Twain, Mark. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1893) 22. Conrad, Joseph. Heart of Darkness (1902) 23. Montgomery, L. M. Anne of Green Gables (1908) 24. Joyce, James. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916) 25. Forster, E.M. A Passage to India (1926)

5 26. Woolf, Virginia.To the Lighthouse (1927) 27. Faulkner, William. The Sound and the Fury (1929) 28. Hurston, Zora Neale. Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937) 29. Gabrielle Roy, The Tin Flute (1945); trans. Alan Brown (1989) 30. Achebe, Chinua. Things Fall Apart (1958) 31. Ngugi wa Thiong o. The River Between (1965) 32. Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966) 33. Pynchon, Thomas. The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) 34. Kingston, Maxine Hong. The Woman Warrior (1976) 35. Rushdie, Salman. Midnight s Children (1980) 36. Kogawa, Joy. Obasan (1981) 37. Barnes, Julian. Flaubert's Parrot (1984) 38. Ihimaera, Witi. The Whale Rider (1987) 39. Morrison, Toni. Beloved (1987) 40. Naipaul, V.S. Enigma of Arrival (1987) 41. King, Thomas. Green Grass, Running Water (1993) 42. Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day (1989) 43. Atwood, Margaret. Alias Grace (1996) 44. Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999) 45 Smith, Zadie. White Teeth (2000) 46. Munro, Alice. Runaway (2004) DRAMA: 1. Biblical Plays: The Wakefield Second Shepherds Play; and from The York Play: The Fall of the Angels; Joseph s Trouble about Mary; Christ Before Pilate I (The Dream of Pilate s Wife); The Crucifixion; The Last Judgement 2. Everyman 3. Kyd, Thomas. The Spanish Tragedy ( ?) 4. Marlowe, Christopher. Doctor Faustus (1588-9)

6 5. Shakespeare, William. Hamlet ( ) Othello ( ) The Tempest (1611) 8. Congreve, William. The Way of the World (1700) 9. Behn, Aphra. The Rover (1677) 10. Wilde, Oscar, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) 11. Shaw, Bernard. Man and Superman (1903) 12. Synge, J.S. The Playboy of the Western World (1907) 13. Miller, Arthur. Death of a Salesman (1949) 14. Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot (1952) 15. Stoppard, Tom. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (1964) 16. Soyinka, Wole. Death and the King s Horseman (1975) 17. Churchill, Caryl. Cloud Nine (1979) 18. Pollock, Sharon. Blood Relations (1980) 19. Fugard, Athol. Master Harold and the Boys (1982) 20. Highway, Tompson. Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing (1989) 21. Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1993) final revision April 2016