English Literature Course: Full Reading List

Anglo-Saxon Texts

The Dream of the Rood

Beowulf
Wulf and Eadwacer

Most of these are included as downloadable resources, except for Beowulf

which is available here.

Middle English Texts

The Canterbury tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Pearl and the Green Knight
The Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Mallory
Revelations of Divine Love by Julian of Norwich

Some of these are included as downloadable resources.

Morte d’Arthur by Thomas Malory

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Renaissance Texts

Some of these are included as downloadable resources.

By William Shakespeare

Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Antony and Cleopatra
By Christopher Marlowe

Tamburlaine
Dido, Queen of Carthage
Edward the Second

By Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queen

Regency Texts

Some of these are included as downloadable resources.

By Samuel Richardson

Pamela
Clarissa

By Jane Austen

Sense and Sensibility

Northanger Abbey
Mansfield Park
Emma
Pride and Prejudice
Persuasion

By Matthew Gregory Lewis

The Monk
The Romantics

By Wordsworth

Daffodils
Surprised by Joy
The Prelude

By Coleridge

Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

By Shelley

Prometheus Unbound
Music When Soft Voices Die

By Byron

She Walks in Beauty

Don Juan

By Keats

Ode to a Nightingale
St Agnes’ Eve

Victorian Texts

Some of these are included as downloadable resources.

By Charles Dickens

Great Expectations
Oliver Twist
Bleak House
David Copperfield

By Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre
The Professor

By Emily Brontë

Wuthering Heights

By Anne Brontë

Agnes Grey
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By George Eliot

Middlemarch
Silas Marner
The Mill on the Floss

Early Twentieth Century Texts

By Siegfried Sassoon

Attack
Everyone Sang

By Wilfred Owen

Dulce et Decorum Est

Anthem for Doomed Youth

By Robert Graves

Ghost raddled
The Foreboding

By Rudyard Kipling

The Jungle Books

If
My Boy Jack
The Gardener

Modernist Texts

By Virginia Woolf

To the Lighthouse
Mrs Dalloway
Orlando

By E.M. Forster

A Room with a View

A Passage to India

The Inkingls

By C.S. Lewis

Surprised by Joy
The Screwtape Letters
Out of the Silent Planet
Perelandra
That Hideous Strength
A Grief Observed
The Four Loves
By J.R.R. Tolkien
The Lord of the Rings, including preface
The Silmarillion
Leaf by Niggle
Letters
The Hobbit
On Fairy Stories
Mythopoeia

Late Twentieth and Early Twenty- First Century Texts

By J.K. Rowling

The Harry Potter series

By Mark Haddon

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time

By Ian McEwan

Atonement
On Chesil beach
American Literature Texts

By Harriet Beecher Stowe

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

By Mark Twain

The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

By Louisa May Alcott

The Little Women Series

By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

Tender Is the Night

By William Faulkner

The Sound and the Fury

Light in August
Irish Literature Texts

By W.B. Yeats
Poetry

By George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion
Saint Joan

By Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot
Endgame

By James Joyce
Ulysses
Dubliners

By Seamus Heaney
Poems
Beowulf