经典英语读物清单.doc

English Studies Masters Comprehensive Exam Reading ListClassical LiteratureOdysseyBooks VI, VIII, IX,HomerX, XIOedipus the KingSophoclesGenesis, Book of Job,BibleLukeGorgiasPlatoPhaedrusRhetorica, Books I and II AristotleInstitutes of OratoryQuintilianBook II, Chapters 15-17Book X, Chapter 3Book XII, Chapter 1Medieval LiteratureInferno Cantos 1-5, 11, 13,Dante19-22, 28-30, 32-34“Sir Gawain and theThe Pearl Poet Green Knight”from The Canterbury Tales:Geoffrey Chaucer“The General Prologue”“The Pardoners Tale”“The Wife of Baths Tale”“The Franklins Tale”Renaissance LiteratureHamlet, Lear, OthelloWilliam ShakespeareSonnets:“Shall I compare thee to a summers day?”“A womans face with natures own hand painted”“When, in disgrace with fortune and mens eyes”“Not marble nor the gilded monuments”“That time of year thou mayest in me behold”“Let me not to the marriage of true minds”Thexpense of spirit in a waste of shame”“My mistress eyes are nothing like the sun”“When my love swears that she is made of truth”“Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth”Restoration & 18th Century British LiteratureParadise Lost- Books 1-4, 7, 9, 10, 12John Milton“A Modest Proposal”Jonathan Swift“The Rape of the Lock”Alexander PopeLectures on Rhetoric and Belles LettresHugh BlairLecture 1British Romantic LiteraturePride and PrejudiceJane AustenWuthering HeightsEmily BronteJane EyreCharlotte BronteFrankensteinMary ShelleySongs of InnocenceWilliam Blakeand Experience“Lines Composed William Wordswortha Few Miles aboveTintern Abbey”Book I of 1805 Preludethe Lucy poems“A Poets Epitaph”“Elegiac Stanzas”“The Rime of theSamuel Taylor ColeridgeAncient Mariner”“The Eolian Harp”“Kubla Khan”“Christabel”“Frost at Midnight”“Fears in Solitude”“Dejection”“To William Wordworth”chapter 1 of BiographiaVictorian LiteratureGreat ExpectationsCharles Dickens“My Last Duchess”Robert Browning“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”“The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxeds Church” “Andrea del Sarto”“Fra Lippo Lippi”“Goblin Market”Christina RossettiSartor ResartusThomas CarlyleCulture and AnarchyMatthew Arnold19th Century American LiteratureThe Declaration of Independence (pre 19th Century)Huckleberry FinnMark Twainfrom Franklin edition, poems:Emily Dickinson5, 16, 71, 94, 369, 372, 426, 488,533, 640“Self-Reliance”Ralph Waldo Emerson “The Poet,” “American Scholar”WaldenHenry David Thoreau “Civil Disobedience”The Scarlet LetterNathaniel Hawthorne“Song of MyselfWalt Whitman“Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking”“When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd”“Crossing Brooklyn Ferry”“When I Heard the Learnd Astronomer”20th Century American LiteratureThe Great GatsbyF. Scott FitzgeraldThe Sun Also RisesErnest HemingwayThe Sound and the FuryWilliam FaulknerDeath of a SalesmanArthur MillerThe Glass MenagerieTennessee WilliamsLong Days Journey into NightEugene ONeill“The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”T.S. EliotThe Linguistic WarsRandy Allen Harris20th Century British LiteratureHeart of DarknessJoseph ConradA Portrait of the ArtistJames Joyceas a Young ManMrs. DallowayVirginia WoolfWaiting for GodotSamuel BeckettSaint JoanG.B. Shaw“The Second Coming”W.B. Yeats“Leda and the Swan”“Sailing to Byzantium”“Among School Children”“The Circus Animals Desertion”“Poem in October”Dylan Thomas“The Force That Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower” “A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London” “In my Cra