American Literature

Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Nature"; "Self-Reliance"

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter (St. Martin's edition)

Herman Melville: Benito Cereno

Walt Whitman: "Song of Myself"; "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"

Emily Dickinson: Poems 241, 280, 303, 324, 341, 401, 448, 465, 508, 510, 579, 650, 712, 754, 910

Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady

Eugene O'Neill: The Hairy Ape*

William Faulkner: Go Down, Moses

Adrienne Rich: The Dream of a Common Language

Toni Morrison: Beloved

Issac Bashevis Singer: Enemies: A Love Story

British Literature

Geoffrey Chaucer: "The General Prologue"; "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale"; "The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale" (from The Canterbury Tales in The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th edition)

William Shakespeare: The Tempest*

John Milton: Paradise Lost

Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

William Wordsworth: All selections from The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 6th edition

Mary Shelley: Frankenstein (St. Martin's edition)

George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss

Robert Browning: "Porphyria's Lover"; "My Last Duchess"; "The Bishop Orders His Tomb"; "Fra Lippo Lippi"; "Andrea del Sarto"; "Bishop Blougram's Apology"; "A Grammarian's Funeral"; "Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came"; "Rabbi Ben Ezra"; "Love Among the Ruins"; "The Statue and the Bust"; "The Last Ride Together"; "Two in the Campagna"; "Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister"

James Joyce: "The Dead"

Virginia Woolf: A Room of One's Own

T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land

D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love

Doris Lessing: "One Off the Short List"; "A Woman on a Roof"; "Our Friend Judith"

Critical Text

Raymond Williams: The Country and the City, Oxford University Press (May 1975), ISBN 0195198107

*New for 2000-2001

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