English Literature from Middle Ages to Victorianism

1. Syllabus (docx). General English literature links for self-study. Caedmon, (rpo)

2. Beowulf: heroes, monsters.

3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (prologue / poetic and prose translations)

4. Geoffrey Chaucer, The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales pdf (handout pdf)

5. William Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream (handout)

6. Metaphysical poetry (pdf1, pdf2)

7. John Milton, Paradise Lost (Book IX pdf)

8. Alexander Pope: "The Rape of the Lock" (pdf)

9. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (pdf)

10. Pre-romanticism. First generation Romantic poets. 

11. S. T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

13. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

14. Test.