Senior Reading List - 2014

Every English major will take an examination, based in 2014 on the following reading list:

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

Since this reading list is short, students can expect that the examination will test their knowledge of each and every work.