Lit Survey II Semeste 2 Reading List

Second Semester Lit/Survey II

Renaissance (cont.)

    Shakespeare--Hamlet

Seventeenth Century

    Donne (Metaphysical poet)
    Marvell and Herrick (carpe diem)
    Milton Paradise Lost
    Bunyan (I talk about Pilgrims Progress)

Eighteenth Century

    Pepys (“peeps”)—The Diary
    Defoe—A Journal of the Plague Year
    Swift—Gulliver’s Travels
        A Modest Proposal
    Pope—The Rape of the Lock

Romanticism

    Burns poetry
    Blake poetry
    M. Shelley—Frankenstein
    Some Wordsworth poetry
    Coleridge—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
    P. Shelley poetry
    Keats poetry

Victorian

    Some Tennyson poetry
    R. Browning “My Last Duchess”
    Discussion of novels (Dickens, Bronte)
    Discussion of drama (The Importance of Being Earnest”)
    Misc. but great poems (Hardy “Ah, Are You Digging….” Housman “To an     Athlete Dying Young” )

Modern

    Orwell--Animal Farm
    Yeats—“The Second Coming”
    Eliot—“The Hollow Men,” “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”
    Misc. short stories and poetry, as time allows

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