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English Graduate H<strong>and</strong>book / 16APPENDIX CREADING LIST FOR THE MA COMPREHENSIVE EXAMCreated May 2005 / Updated May 2009 / Updated May 2012I. British Literature to 16601. Anon, Pearl <strong>and</strong> Sir Gawain <strong>and</strong> the Green Knight2. Chaucer, Ge<strong>of</strong>frey, From The Canterbury Tales: The General Prologue, The Wife <strong>of</strong>Bath’s Tale, The Miller’s Tale, The Knight’s Tale, <strong>and</strong> The Pardoner’s Tale3. Julian <strong>of</strong> Norwich, Revelations <strong>of</strong> Divine Love / A Book <strong>of</strong> Showings4. Kempe, Margery, The Book <strong>of</strong> Margery Kempe5. Langl<strong>and</strong>, William, Piers Plowman6. Malory, Thomas, Le Morte D’Arthur7. Medieval Drama: Everyman, The Wakefield Second Shepherds’ Pageant, TheWakefield Noah play8. Medieval Poems “The W<strong>and</strong>erer,” “The Seafarer,” “The Dream <strong>of</strong> the Rood,” “TheWife’s Lament,” “The Ruin,” “Deor,” “Sumer is icumen in (The Cuckoo Song),”“Lenten is come with love to town,” “I sing <strong>of</strong> a maiden,” “Alison”9. More, Thomas, Utopia10. Sidney, Philip, Astrophil <strong>and</strong> Stella, Defense <strong>of</strong> Poesie11. Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene (Books 1-3); Epithalamion12. Seventeenth Century Lyric Cluster (see below)13. Shakespeare, William, Othello, Henry IV Parts I <strong>and</strong> II, Twelfth Night, Antony <strong>and</strong>Cleopatra, The Tempest, <strong>and</strong> Sonnets14. Early Modern Theatre: Jonson, Ben, Volpone, Marlowe, Christopher, DoctorFaustus, Middleton, Thomas <strong>and</strong> William Rowley, The Changeling15. Milton, John, Paradise Lost, LycidasII. British <strong>and</strong> American Literature 1660-190016. Behn, Aphra, Oroonoko <strong>and</strong> The Rover17. William Wycherly, The Country Wife18. Defoe, Daniel, Robinson Crusoe19. Fielding, Henry, Tom Jones20. Addison <strong>and</strong> Steele, The Spectator: No. 2, The Spectator’s Club (Steele), No. 10,The Aims <strong>of</strong> the Spectator (Addison), No. 11, Inkle <strong>and</strong> Yarico (Steele), No. 62,Wit: True, False, Mixed (Addison), No. 267, Paradise Lost: General CriticalRemarks (Addison), No. 411, The Pleasures <strong>of</strong> the Imagination (Addison)21. Burney, Frances, Evelina22. Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels, <strong>and</strong> “Lady’s Dressing Room”23. Eighteenth-Century Poets: Pope, Alex<strong>and</strong>er, Rape <strong>of</strong> the Lock; The Dunciad(Book Four), “Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot,” “The Essay on Man,” “Epistle to a Lady;”Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley, “Verses Address'd to the Imitator <strong>of</strong> Horace” <strong>and</strong>“The Reasons that Induced Dr. Swift to Write a Poem call'd the ‘Lady's DressingRoom;’” Goldsmith, Oliver, “The Deserted Village;” Gray, Thomas, “Elegy
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