2010-2011 Reading List
for the MA Comprehensive Exam
pre-1800 British:
- Geoffrey Chaucer, "The Prioress's Tale and Prologue," from The Canterbury Tales
- Aphra Benn, The Rover
- Laurence Stern, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
post-1800 British:
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John Keats, Selected Poetry
“The Eve of St. Agnes”
“La Belle Dame Sans Merci”
“Lamia”
“Ode on a Grecian Urn”
“Ode on Indolence”
“Ode to a Nightingale”
“Ode to Psyche”
“On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer”
“On Seeing the Elgin Marbles”
“To Autumn”
“To Sleep”
“When I Have Fears that I May Cease to Be” - Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
- Ian McEwan, Atonement
American:
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Anne Bradstreet, Selected Poetry
“The Author to Her Book”
“Before the Birth of One of Her Children”
“Contemplations”
“The Flesh and the Spirit”
“Here Follows Some Verses Upon the Burning of our House, July 10th, 1666”
“In Honor of that High and Might Princess, Queen Elizabeth”
“A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment”
“The Prologue”
“To My Dear and Loving Husband”
“To Her Father with Some Verses” -
Edgar Allan Poe
"The Black Cat"
"The Fall of the House of Usher"
"The Man of the Crowd"
"MS. Found in a Bottle"
"The Purloined Letter"
"William Wilson" - Richard Wright, Native Son
