Reading List

Senior Exercise Reading List - Honors 2013-14

Beowulf (Heaney translation)

Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

E. M. Forster, A Passage to India

Joy Harjo, "When the World as We Knew It Ended," " The Everlasting," "A Map to the Next World," "Perhaps the World Ends Here," "A Postcolonial Tale," "The Woman Who Fell From the Sky," "The Book of Myths," "Song for the Deer and Myself to Return On," "The Real Revolution is Love," "Deer Dancer," "Grace," "She Had Some Horses," "New Orleans"

Nathaniel Hawthorne, The House of Seven Gables

John Keats: "On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again," "When I have Fears," "Ode to a Nightingale," "Ode on Melancholy," "Ode to a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn," "This Living Hand," "Bright Star," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci"

John Milton "Lycidas," "L'Allegro," "Il Penseroso," "On Shakespeare," "When I consider How My Light is Spent," "Methought I Saw," "On the Morning of Christ's Nativity," "On the Late Massacre in Piedmont"

Toni Morrison, Beloved

Sir Philip Sidney, Defense of Poesy

The Second Shepherds' Play

William Shakespeare, Twelfth Night

Mary Shelley, Frankenstein

Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest

William Wycherley, The Country Wife

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

The Wanderer and The Seafarer

Aphra Behn, Oronooko

Charles Dickens, Great Expectations

John Donne, "The Good Morrow," "Song-'Go and catch a falling star'", "The Sun Rising," "A Nocturnal upon St. Lucy's Day," "The Relic," Holy Sonnet 7-"At the Round earth's imagined corners," Holy Sonnet 10-"Death be not proud," Holy Sonnet 14-"Batter my heart", "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," Elegy XIX-"To His Mistress Going to Bed"

Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man

Langston Hughes, "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "Danse Africaine," "The Weary Blues," "Cross," "I, Too," "Homesick Blues," "Po' Boy Blues," "Song for a Dark Girl," Montage of a Dream Deferred (all poems in the Sequence)

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl

Herman Melville, Benito Cereno

Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

William Shakespeare, King Lear

Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway

William Wordsworth, "Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey," "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, "Resolution and Independence," "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802," "Nuns Fret Not," "Ode: Intimations of Immortality," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," "The World is Too much with Us," "Surprised by Joy," "Mutability"