English Literature from Middle Ages to Victorianism

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

2. "The Wanderer": a translation, an analysis

3. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Book 1)

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

5. Christopher Marlowe, The Tragedy of Doctor Faustus (handout pdf)

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

7. Metaphysical poetry (pdf1, pdf2)

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

9. Alexander Pope: "The Rape of the Lock" (pdf), excerpts from "An Essay on Criticism". Jonathan Swift: "A Modest Proposal"

10. Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (pdf)

11. Pre-romanticism. First generation Romantic poets. S. T. Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"

12. Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

13. Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

14. Test.