British Literature II Readings

The Romantic Period (1785-1830)

William Blake (1757-1827) : "To Autumn"(audio); from Songs of Innocence: "The Lamb"(audio); "The Little Black Boy" (audio); "The Chimney Sweeper"(audio); "The Garden of Love"(audio); "London"(audio); "I asked a thief" (audio)

Robert Burns (1759-1796): "To a Mouse"(audio); "A Red, Red Rose" (audio); "Auld Lang Syne"(audio); "Address to a Haggis" (audio)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): "Strange fits of passion have I known" (audio); "She Dwelt among the untrodden ways"(audio Bill Macy)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834): The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (audio) 

Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797): A Vindication of the Rights of Woman Chs. 1, 2 4, 6, 9, 12 (audio)

George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788-1824):"She walks in beauty" (audio); "When we two parted"(audio); Don Juan, Canto the First (audio) 

P. B. Shelley (1792-1822): "Ode to the West Wind"(audio); "England in 1819"(audio); "Ozymandias" (audio)

John Keats (1795-1821): "When I have fears that I may cease to be"(audio); "Ode on a Grecian Urn"(audio); "To Autumn"(audio); "La Belle Dame Sans Merci" (audio)

Victorian Age (1830–1901)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861): "The Cry of the Children" (audio); "How do I Love Thee" (audio)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892): "Ulysses"(audio)

Robert Browning (1812-1889) : "Porphyria's Lover"(audio); "My Last Duchess"; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb" (audio)

 Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855): "On The Death Of Anne Brontë"

Emily Bronte (1818-1848): "No Coward Soul is Mine"; "To Imagination"

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894): "Song" (audio); "After Death"

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889): "God's Grandeur"; "Spring"; "Pied Beauty"; "Thou Art Indeed Just, Lord" 

Lewis Carroll (1832-1898): "Jabberwocky" (audio)

Modernism and Post-Modernism (1901-Present)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939): "When You are Old"; "Leda and the Swan"; "Easter 1916" (audio)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): "A Room of One's Own" Chapter One (audio)

James Joyce (1882-1941): "Araby" (audio) 

D. H. Lawrence (1885-1930): "Piano"(audio); "The Snake"

Patrick Kavanaugh (1904-1967): "Conflict"

W. H. Auden (1907-1973) :"Musee des Beaux Arts"; "In Memory of Yeats"; "Funeral Blues" (audio from Four Weddings and a Funeral)

Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) :"Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night" (audio by Anthony Hopkins; audio by Thomas)

Philip Larkin (1922-1985): "This Be the Verse"(audio) 

Derek Walcott (1930-2017) : "A Far Cry from Africa"; "the Glory Trumpeter" 

Present-Day Living Authors from the United Kingdom, Ireland, and the Commonwealth

Salman Rushdie (b. 1947): "The Golden Bough"

Hanif Kureishi (b. 1954): "My Son the Fanatic" (audio: Part I and Part II)

Kazuo Ishiguro (b. 1954): "A Family Supper" (audio)

Salena Godden (b. 1972): "This Poem"

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (b. 1977): "Cell One" 

Nikita Gill (b. 1987): "They Will Ask Us in the Future How it Happened"

Andrew McMillan (b. 1988): "A Gift" (click the link to access both the video and text)

Note: All readings will be covered in the quizzes, papers, project, bulletin board assignments, journals, and Midterm Exam.