English Reading List Poetry

John Updike/ Rossetti/ Derek Walcott Sylvia Plath- 1932-1963- Colossus Philip Larkin- 1922-1985- The Less Decieved/ Whitsun Weddings/ High Windows Kingsley Amis- 1922-1995- Poetry Dylan Thomas- 1914- 1953- Under the Milk Wood/ Do not go Gentle into that Good Night WH Auden-Poet 1907- 1973 Funeral Blues/ Night Train/ September 1st 1939 John Betjeman- 1906-1984Cecil Day-Lewis- 1904-1972- Word Over All TS Eliot- 1888-1965 Ezra Pound- Collected Poetry- 1885- 1972 Herman Hess- 1877-1962- Steppenwolf/ Siddhartha/ The Glass Bead Game Yeats- 1865-1939- The Tower/ The Winding Stairs Rudyard Kipling- 1865- 1936 Joseph Conrad- 1857-1924- Heart of Darkness Gerard Manley Hopkins- 1844-1889- Poet- As Kingfishers Catch Fire Emily Dickinson- 1830-1886- The Poems of Emily Dickinson Robert Browning- 1812-1889 Victorian- Dramatic Monologue- Porphyria's Lover/ The Ring and the Book Lord Tennyson- 1809- 1892 Break, break, break/ The Charge of the Light Brigade/ Tears, idle tears/ Crossing the bar/ In the valley of Cauteretz Edgar Allan Poe- American Romantic Macabre- 1809-1849- Poetry Keats- 1795-1821- Romantic Poetry- Odes Shelley- 1792-1822- Romantic Poet- Ode to the West Wind/ To the Skylark/ The Mask Anarchy/ Prometheus Unbound

Lord Byron- 1788-1824- She Walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, So well go a roving/ Childe Haroldes Pilgrimage/ Don Juan Robert Southey- 1774-1843- The Doctor Coleridge- 1772-1834- Romantic Poet- Rime/ Kubla Khan/ Eolian Harp/ Biographia Literaria Wordsworth- 1770-1850- Romantic Poetry- Lyrical Ballads/ Prelude Burns- 1759-1796- Scottish Romantic- Auld Lang Syne/ A red, red rose/ A mans a man for that, To a Louse, To a Mouse, The Battle of Sherramuir Blake- 1757-1827- Pre-Romantic- Songs of Innocence and Experience William Cowper- 1731- 1800- Poet- Olney Hymns/ The Task/ John Gilpin Alexander Pope- 1688-1744- Augustan/ Satirist Rape of the Lock Joseph Addison- 1672-1719- Poet Jonathon Swift- 1667-1745- Augustan/ Satirist Gullivers Travels Dryden- 1631-1700- Augustan Satirist Andrew Marvell- 1621-1678 Metaphysical Poet- To His Coy Mistress/ The Garden, Upon Appleton House, An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland Abraham Cowley- Poet 1618-1667- Tragicall History of Piramus and Thisbe/ Elegy on the Death of Dudley, Lord Carlton Richard Lovelace- 1618-1657- Poet To Luccastes going to the Warres/ To Alfea from Prison/ The Grasse Hopper Samuel Butler- 1612-1680- Hudibras Milton- 1608-1674 Poet/ Prose- Paradise Lost/ Paradise Regained/ Sampson Agonistes Robert Herrick- Poet 1591-1674- Hesperides/ Noble Numbers John Donne- 1572-1631- Jacobean/ Metaphysical Poet Shakespeare- 1564-1616- Sonnets Walter Raleigh- 1552-1618- Poet What is our life/ The Lie/ The Ocean to Cynthia Edmund Spencer- Poet 1552- 1599 Faerie Queen

Pearl/ Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- Late 14th Century Chaucer- Bard- Vernacular 1343- 1400 Canterbury Tales William Langland- 1332-1386- Poet Pier Plowman Boccaccio- 1313-1375- Florentine Poet- Decameron/ On Famous Women/ On Fates of Famous Men Petrarch- 1304-1374- Florentine Poet- Sonnet Dante- 1265-1321- Florentine Poet- Divine Comedy Exeter Book: The Wanderer/ Seafarer/ Deor

Novels
Richard Yates/ Salmon Rushdie/ Gore Vidal/ WG Sebald Angela Carter- 1940- 1992- Magical Realism- A Night at the Circus Margaret Atwood- 1939 The Hand Maids Tale/ The Blind Assassin/ Penolopiad Philip Roth- 1933- Goodbye Columbus/ Portnoys Complaint/ The Ghost Writer Philip K Dick- 1928- 1982- Science Fiction/ Dystopia Do Paranoid Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Gabriel Garcia Marques- 1927- Magic Realism- 100 years of Solitude/ Love in the time of Cholera Truman Capote- 1924-1984- Breakfast at Tiffanys/ In Cold Blood Joseph Heller- 1923-1999- Catch 22 J D Salinger- 1919- A Perfect Day for a Bananafish/ Franny and Zooey William Golding- 1911- 1993- Rites of Passage/ To the Ends of the Earth George Orwell- 1903-1950- Dystopia- Animal Farm/ 1984 John Steinbeck- 1902-1968- The Grapes of Wrath/ Of Mice and Men/ East of Eden Ernest Hemingway- 1899- 1961- The Old Man and the Sea/ For Whom the Bell Tolls William Faulkner- 1897-1962- The Sound and the Fury/ As I Lay of Dying Scott Fitzgerald- 1896- 1940- The Great Gatsby/ Tales of the Jazz Age

Alduous Huxley- 1894-1963 Dystopia- Brave New World/ The Doors of Perception/ Heaven and Hell Franz Kafka- 1883-1924- Metamorphosis/ Trial/ James Joyce- 1882-1941 Ulysses/ Finnegans Wale/ Dubliners Virginia Woolf- 1882-1941 To the Lighthouse/ The Waves Edward Morgan Forster- 1879-1970- The Longest Journey/ Room with a View/ Howards End GK Chesterton- 1874-1936- Orthodoxy/ The Everlasting Man Herbert George Wells- 1866-1946 Science Fiction- Dystopia The Time Machine/ War of the Worlds/ The Invisible Man JM Barrie- 1860-1937- Peter Pan Oscar Wilde-1854-1900- The Importance of Being Earnest/ A Woman of No Importance/ The Pictures of Dorian Gray/ The Happy Prince and Other Stories Robert Louis Stevenson-1850-1894- Treasure Island/ The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde/ Kidnapped Bram Stoker- 1847-1912- Dracula Henry James- 1843- 1916- Portrait of the Lady/ The Wings of the Dove/ The turn of Screw Thomas Hardy- 1840-1928- Tess of the DUrbervilles/ The Return of the Native/ Jude the Obscure Mark Twain- 1835-1910- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer/ Huckleberry Finn Lewis Carroll- 1832-1898- Alices Adventures in Wonderland/ Through the Looking Glass/ Hunting the Snark/ Jabberwocky Leo Tolstoy- 1828-1910- War and Peace/ Anne Karenina Jules Verne- 1828-1905- Journey to the Centre of the Earth/ Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea/ Around the World in Eighty Days Fyodor Dostoyevsky-1821- 1881- Crime and Punishment/ The Idiot Herman Melville- 1819-1891- Moby Dick George Eliot- Mary Ann Evans 1819-1880- Daniel Deronda/ Silas Marner/ Middlemarch/ Mill on the Floss

Emily Bronte- 1818-1848- Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronte- 1816- 1855- Jane Eyre Anthony Trollope- 1815-1882- Chronicles of Barsetshire Charles Dickens- 1812- 1870- Boz- Pickwick Papers/ Oliver Twist/ Nicholas Nickleby/ Old Curiosity Shop/ David Copperfield William Makepeace Thackeray- 1811-1863- Vanity Fair Elizabeth Gaskell- 1810-1865- Cranford/ North and South Mary Shelley- 1797-1851- Frankenstein Thomas De Quincey- 1785-1859- Confessions of an Opium Eater Jane Austen- 1775-1817- Sense and Sensibility/ Pride and Prejudice/ Mansfield Park/ Emma James Boswell- 1740-1795- The Life of Johnson Oliver Goldsmith- 1730-1774- The Vicar of Wakefield/ The Deserted Village/ She Stoops to Conquer Laurence Sterne- 1713-1768- The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy/ A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy Henry Fielding- 1707-1754- Tom Jones Daniel Defoe- 1659-1731- Robinson Crusoe Richard Burton- 1577-1640- Author Anatomy of Melancholy

Plays
August Strindberg/ Eugene O'Neill/ Alan Ayckbourn Caryl Churchill- 1938- Top Girls/ A Mouthful of Birds Tom Stoppard- 1937/ Rosencrantz and Guildenstern/ The Coast of Utopia Harold Pinter- 1930- 2008- The Birthday Party/ The Caretaker/ Homecoming/ Betrayal John Osborne- 1929-1954- Look Back in Anger Edward Albee- 1928- Theatre of Absurd- Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Arthur Miller- 1915-2005- Crucible/ Death of a Salesman Tennessee Williams- 1911-1983- Streetcar named Desire/ The Glass Menagerie Eugene Ionesco- 1909-1994- Theatre of the Absurd- The Bald Soprano Samuel Beckett- 1906-1989- Theatre of the Absurd- Waiting for Godot Frederick Garcia Lorca- 1898-1936- Blood Wedding Anton Chekov- 1860-1904- The Seagull George Bernard Shaw- 1856-1950- Pygmalion Henrik Ibsen- 1828-1906- Peer Gynt/ A Dolls House Oliver Goldsmith- 1730-1774- The Vicar of Wakefield/ The Deserted Village/ She Stoops to Conquer William Congreve- Playwright 1670-1729- Love for Love/ The Way of the World/ The Mourning Bride Thomas Otway- 1652-1685- The Orphan John Webster- 1580-1634- The White Devil/ The Duchess of Malfi Thomas Middleton- 1580-1627- The Revengers Tragedy/ The Changling Ben Jonson- 1572-1637- Volpone/ The Alchemist/ Bartholomew Fair Shakespeare- 1564-1616 Marlowe- 1564-1593- Jew of Malta/ Doctor Faustus/ Edward II Thomas Kyd- 1558- 1594- The Spanish Tragedy

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