Reading Assignments for English 264 Online
Unless otherwise noted, readings are in the Longman Anthology of British Literature, 2nd Compact Ed., Volume B (ISBN 0321202392). Page numbers refer to this anthology. Follow the links below to access the e-texts assigned; they are in PDF format and will open in a new browser window. You should read the assignments in the order listed.
Romantics (May 19-June 1)
- The French Revolution: 36-73; Definition of “Romantic” (e-text)
- William Blake: 74-107
- William Wordsworth: 194-236
- Dorothy Wordsworth: 290-298
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 323-355
- George Gordon, Lord Byron: 356-391
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: 391-404
- John Keats: 421-449
- Felecia Hemans: 404-418
Victorians (June 1-June 12)
- Industrialism: 487-513
- Thomas Carlyle: 475-486
- Charles Dickens: “A Visit to Newgate” (e-text)
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: 583-616; “Lady of Shalott in 1833 edition” (e-text)
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 528-554
- Robert Browning: 659-689
- Victorian Ladies and Gentlemen: 555-583
- John Stuart Mill: 513-527
- Oscar Wilde: 828-888
Moderns (June 13-June 20)
- Gerard Manley Hopkins: 773-778
- Thomas Hardy: 1071-1079; “On the Western Circuit” (e-text)
- George Bernard Shaw: 1002-1071
- World War I: 1080-1113
- William Butler Yeats: 1113-1130
- James Joyce: 1130-1138, 1165-1191
- T. S. Eliot: 1191-1221
- Virginia Woolf: 1222-1253; “Professions for Women” (e-text)
Jonathan C. Glance
Professor of English
Mercer University
Last Updated 15 May 2014
