Course Materials
Introduction
- 📖 Historical Context (The Norton Anthology of English Literature)
- 📖 Excerpt from George Eliot's Middlemarch
- 📖 Excerpt from James Joyce's Ulysses
- 📖 Thomas Hardy, "The Darkling Thrush"
- 🔗 Matthew Arnold, "Dover Beach"
- 📊 Slide Deck
Thomas Hardy
Supplements
James Joyce
Critical Commentary
- 📄 Margot Norris, "The Perils of Eveline"
Supplements
Assignments - ✏️ Assignment 2: "The Boarding House"
T. S. Eliot
Supplements
- 🔗 William Shakespeare, Speech: “To be, or not to be, that is the question”
- 🔗 Alfred Lord Tennyson, "Ulysses"
- 🔗 Wikipedia: Dramatic monologue
- 🔗 Ezra Pound, "In a Station of the Metro"
- 🔗 T. S. Eliot, "Preludes"
Katherine Mansfield
Assignments
World War I Poets
- 📖 Brooke, "The Soldier"; Owen, "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- 🔗 Edward Thomas, "Adlestrop"
- 🔗 Siegfried Sassoon, "Glory of Women"
More poems
- 🔗 Thomas Hardy, "In the Cemetery"
- 🔗 Alfred, Lord Tennyson, "The Charge of the Light Brigade"
- 🔗 William Butler Yeats, "An Irish Airman foresees His Death"
Supplements
- 🔈 Sophie Okonedo reads "The Soldier"
- 🔈 Kenneth Branagh reads "Dulce et Decorum Est"
- 🔈 Richard Burton reads "Adlestrop"
- 📊 Slide Deck
W. H. Auden
Supplements
- 🖼️ Peter Paul Rubens, Sketch of The Fall of Icarus (1636)
- 🖼️ Pieter Brueghel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus (1560)
- 🖼️ Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Census at Bethlehem (1566)
- 🖼️ Pieter Brueghel the Elder, The Massacre of the Innocents (1565-7)
Philip Larkin
Supplements
Samuel Beckett
- 📖 Waiting for Godot
- 🧠 Study Guide: Cliffs Notes with summaries
- 📄 Notes
- 📄 Discussion Questions
- 📄 The Theater of the Absurd
Critical Commentary
- 📄 Martin Esslin, "The Absurdity of the Absurd"
- 📄 Ruby Cohn, "En attendant Godot"
Supplements