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Reading Lists for the School of Literature & English Studies

English Literature - Read and discuss - participants form discussion groups
English Literature - Read and write - participants read and then write essays
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Collaborators edit

...Alexander Tirk

Fiction edit

Major Authors

Important Works

Poetry edit

Major Authors and Works in Languages other than English edit

Ancient -- for a more extensive list, please visit the Classics Department

- Chuang Chou, Chuang Tzu
- Gilgamesh
- Homer: the Iliad and the Odyssey
- Plato: The Apology of Socrates
- Sappho: lyric poetry
- Tu Fu: lyric poetry

Early Modern/The Renaissance -- Prose and Drama

- Boccaccio: **The Decameron: Folktale Collection
- Calderon: Life is a Dream
- Castiglione: the Book of the Courtier
- Geoffrey Chaucer: **The Canterbury Tales
- Dante: the Divine Comedy
- Marguerite de Navarre: the Heptameron
- Sei Shonagon: The Pillow Book
- The Arabian Nights: Folktale Collection

The 18th Century -- Prose and Drama

The 19th Century -- Prose and Drama

Major 20th Century writers -- Prose and Drama

Poets edit

See also edit

English literary canon

Type classification: this is a reading list resource.

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