Primary texts in Norton Anthology, six-volume, 10th edition, except where otherwise indicated – texts not in the Norton will need to be purchased by students in the exact editions specified. The Literature Online (ProQuest) database is available to all students through the University subscription.
- Stephen Greenblatt et al., eds., Norton Anthology of English Literature, 10th edn. (New York: Norton, 2018). Recommended in the six-volume format, ISBN 978-0-393-60312-5 and 978-0-393-60313-2)
Prose
- Sir Thomas More, Utopia
- John Milton, from Aereopagitica
- William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads (extracts from preface)
- Virginia Woolf, ‘A Room of One’s Own’ (extract)
- Philip Sidney, from ‘The Defence of Poesy’ (extract)
- Seamus Heaney, ‘Crediting Poetry’ (available on Canvas)
- Zadie Smith, ‘The Waiter’s Wife’
Novels
- Charles Dickens, Hard Times (Oxford University Press, ISBN 0199536279)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393964523)
- Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway
Poetry
- Anon, Old English Riddles 1-3
- Anon, ‘The Wanderer’
- Thomas Wyatt, ‘Whoso List to Hunt’
- William Shakespeare, ‘Sonnet 18’
- John Donne, ‘The Flea’
- William Wordsworth, ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802’
- John Keats, ‘To Autumn’
- Charlotte Smith, ‘The Swallow’
- Gerard Manley Hopkins, ‘The Windhover’
- Wilfred Owen, ‘Dulce et Decorum Est’
- T. S. Eliot, ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
- Seamus Heaney, ‘The Grauballe Man’
- Carol Ann Duffy, ‘Anne Hathaway’ (available on Canvas), ‘Medusa’
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning, ‘Grief’ (available on Canvas)
- Tony Harrison, ‘National Trust’ (Literature Online)
- M. Nourbese Philip, ‘Discourse on the Logic of Language’
- Rudyard Kipling, ‘The White Man’s Burden’
Drama
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Norton Critical Edition, ISBN 0393978192)
- Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest
Obligatory secondary reading/textbooks
- Dominic Rainsford, Studying Literature in English (Taylor & Francis, ISBN 0415699231)