• Jane Urquhart, Margaret Avison
• Jeanette Armstrong
• Gabrielle Roy: Wilhelm
• Margaret Atwood: Alias Grace
• Alice Munro
• Carol Shields and Blanche Howard: A Celibate Season
• Carol Shields: ‘Weather’
• Mavis Gallant
• Margaret Laurence: Stone Angel
• Dionne Brand:  'Sans Souci'
• Kerri Sakamoto: Electrical Field
• Evelyn Lau:

ELTE irodalom szigorlat

General Anthologies and Criticism Recommended for the Examination

• Abrams, M.H. et al. (eds.). The Norton Anthology of English Literature, I-II
• Kermode, Frank et al. (eds.).The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, I-II
• Baugh, Albert C. A. (ed.) Literary History of England
• Bradford, R. A. Linguistic History of English Poetry
• Buxton, John et al. (eds.). The Oxford History of English Literature
• Courthope, W.J. A History of English Poetry
• Daiches David. A Critical History of English Literature
• Ford, Boris (ed.). The New Pelican Guide to English Literature
• Gierson, Herbert and Smith, J.S. A Critical History of English Poetry
• Ricks, Christopher (ed.). The Penguin History of English Literature
• Sanders, Andrew. The Short Oxford History of English Literature
• Shepherd, Simon and Womack, Peter. English Drama: A Cultural History
• The Columbia History of British Novel
• The Columbia History of British Poetry

List of Topics that may be comprised in the essay questions

1. Old and Middle English literature
   A tableau of medieval genres: Geoffrey Chaucer, his predecessors (heroic, religious, and elegiac poetry) and contemporaries (lyric poetry, and romance).

Required reading (in modern translation)

• Beowulf
• The Seafarer, The Wanderer, The Dream of the Rood
• Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde (Book I)
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Part I)
• Sumer is icumen in, I sing of a Maiden, Lady, Lady fair and bright, Spring's about with love Again, In Maytime in the merry dawn, Mother, stand firm beneath the Rood.

Anthologies and Criticism

• Alexander, M. (ed.). The Earliest English poems, M. Alexander - for Old English shorter poems
• Anthology of Medieval English Literature, PPKE 1995 - Xeroxed collection
• Perényi E. - Báti L. (eds.). Szöveggyujtemény a középkor irodalmából
• Stone, Brian (ed.). Medieval English Verse, Brian Stone - for Middle English Shorter poems and Sir Orfeo
• Alexander, Michael. Old English Literature
• Boitani - Mann (eds.). The Cambridge Chaucer Companion (highly recommended)
• Brewer, D.S. Chaucer and His World
• Brewer, D.S. English Gothic Literature
• Godden - Lapidge (eds.). The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature (highly recommended)
• Greenfield - Calder. A New Critical History of Old English Literature
• Pearsall, Derek. Old English and Middle English Poetry
• Pearsall, Derek. The Canterbury Tales (highly recommended)
• Rowland, Beryl. Companion to Chaucer Studies
• Schoeck-Taylor (eds.). Chaucer Criticism, I-II
1. Renaissance and Baroque (Early Modern) Literature

1.     Elizabethan Poetry: The Sonneteers

Required Reading

• Sir Thomas Wyatt: [Whoso list to hunt...]; [Farewell, Love]
• Emund Spenser: from Amoretti, Sonnet 54 [Of this worlds theatre in which we stay]; Sonnet 67 [Lyke as a huntsman after weary chase]; Sonnet 75 [One day I wrote her name upon the strand]
• Sir Philip Sidney: from Astrophil and Stella, Sonnet 5 [It is most true that eyes are formed to serve]; Sonnet 10 [Reason, in faith thou art well served, that still]
• William Shakespeare: Sonnet 18 [Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?]; Sonnet 55 [Not marble, not the gilded monuments]; Sonnet 71 [No longer mourn for me when I am dead]; Sonnet 129 [Th' expense of spirit in waste of shame]; Sonnet 130 [My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun]

2.     Shakespeare's Plays. The Interpretation of the Term "Renaissance"

Required Reading

• William Shakespeare: Richard III; A Midsummer Night's Dream; Hamlet; King Lear, The Tempest

3.     Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama: Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, John Webster, Ben Jonson

Required Reading (three plays out of the four titles given below)

• Thomas Kyd: Spanish Tragedy
• Christopher Marlowe: The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
• John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
• Ben Jonson: Volpone

4.     English Poetry in the First Half of the 17th Century: Ben Jonson, John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell. The Interpretation of the Term "Metaphysical"

Required Reading

• Ben Jonson: Ode to Himself; Song: To Celia; To the Same
• John Donne: The Good Morrow; A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning; The Ecstasy; from Holy Sonnets, Sonnet 4 [At the round earth's imagined corners, blow]; Sonnet 10 [Batter my heart, three-personed God, for you]; Sonnet 19 [Oh, to vex me, contraries meet in one]
• George Herbert: Easter-Wings; The Church-Floor
• Andrew Marvell: Bermudas; To His Coy Mistress; The Garden

5.     John Milton. The Interpretation of the Term "Baroque"

Required Reading

• John Milton: L’Allegro; Il Penseroso, Sonnet 17 [When I consider how my light is spent]; Sonnet 18 [On the Late Massacre in Piedmont]; from Paradise Lost, Book I

Anthologies and Criticism

• Fowler, Alastair (ed.). The New Oxford Book of Seventeenth Century Verse
• Gardner, Helen (ed.). The Metaphysical Poets
• Jones, Emrys (ed.). The New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse
• Ország, László (ed.). Szöveggyujtemény a reneszánsz és a polgári forradalom korának angol irodalmából
• Alpers, Paul J. (ed.). Edmund Spenser
• Barber, C.I., Creating Elizabethan Tragedy: The Tragedy of Marlowe and Kyd
• Barish, Jonas A. (ed.). Jonson: Volpone
• Braunmuller, A.R. and Hattaway, Michael (eds). The Cambridge Companion to English Renaissance Drama
• Brown, John Russel: Studying Shakespeare
• Bush, Douglas, John Milton
• Carey, John, John Donne: Life, Mind and Art
• Carey, John (ed.). Andrew Marvell
• Danielson, Dennis (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Milton
• Dyson, A.E. and Lovelock, Julian (eds). Milton: Paradise Lost
• Géher István. Shakespeare olvasókönyv: Tükörképünk 37 darabban
• Hammond, Gerald (ed.). Elizabethan Poetry: Lyrical and Narrative
• Hammond, Gerald (ed.). The Metaphysical Poets
• Holdsworth, R.V. (ed.). Webster: "The White Devil" and "The Duchess of Malfi"
• Jones, Peter (ed.). Shakespeare: The Sonnets
• Jump, John (ed.). Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
• Jump, John (ed.). Shakespeare: Hamlet
• Kermode, Frank (ed.). Shakespeare: King Lear
• Kéry. László. Shakespeare tragédiái
• Kéry. László. Shakespeare vígjátékai
• Lovelock, Julian (ed.). Donne: Songs and Sonnets
• Muir, Kenneth and Schoenbaum, S. (eds). A New Companion to Shakespeare Studies
• Palmer, D.J., Shakespeare: The Tempest
• Price, Antony (ed.). Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Wells, Stanley (ed.). The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies
2. 18th-century Literature

0.     English Poetry in the 18th century

Required Reading

• Alexander Pope, An Essay on Man: Epistle 1. Of the Nature and State of Man, with Respect to the Universe; The Rape of the Lock; Ode on Solitude
• Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
• Robert Burns, Holy Willie's Prayer; A Fond Kiss, A Red, Red Rose; Auld Lang Syne, For A' That and A' That.

1.     Fiction in the 18th century

Required Reading

• Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe or Moll Flanders
• Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels
• Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
• Samuel Richardson, Pamela (excerpts)
• Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy
• Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and another novel
• Anthologies and Criticism
• Donoghue, Denis. Jonathan Swift
• Lonsdale, Roger (ed.). Dryden to Johnson (Sphere History of Literature, Vol. 4)
• Kada Júlia (ed.). Huszonöt fontos angol regény
• Kocztur Gizella. Regény és személyiség. Az angol regény születése: Defoe - Richardson - Fielding
• Lonsdale, Roger. The New Oxford Book of Eighteenth Century Verse (with fresh critical introductions)
• Morris, David B. Alexander Pope: The Genius of Sense
• Probynm Clive. English Fiction of the Eighteenth Century, 1700-1789
• Róna Éva, Szöveggyujtemény a restauráció és a XVIII. század angol irodalmából
• Stephen, Leslie: History of English Thought in the 18th c. in two volumes
• Tillotson, Geoffrey. On the Poetry of Pope
• Tillotson, Geoffrey. Pope and Human Nature
• Watt, Ian. The Rise of the Novel
3. 19th-century Literature

0.     The Romantic Movement in Poetry

Required Reading

• William Blake: From Poetical Sketches: Mad Song, Song (How sweet I roamed) Songs of Innocence and Experience
  From The Marriage of Heaven and Hell: The Proverbs of Hell, A Song of Liberty
• William Wordsworth: We Are Seven, Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey..., The Lucy poems ("Strange Fits of Passion", "She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways", "Three Years She Grew", "A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal"), Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, It is a Beauteous Evening..., The World is Too Much With Us, I wandered Lonely As a Cloud, Immortality Ode, The Solitary Reaper, London, 1802
  From The Prelude: Book First
  Criticism: Preface to "Lyrical Ballads" (18Ö)
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, Frost at Midnight, Dejection: an Ode
  Criticism: From Biographia Literaria: Chapters XIII, XIV
• George Gordon, Lord Byron: The Destruction of Sennacherib, She walks in Beauty, When We Two Parted, So We'll Go No More A-Roving, Darkness, Prometheus, On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year
  From Childe Harold's Pilgrimage: "Adieu, adieu! my native shore...", To Inez (in Canto I)
  Manfred
  From Don Juan: Canto the First
  Excerpts from Letters, Journals, Diaries
• Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias, Song to the Men of England, England in 1819, Ode to the West Wind, The Indian Serenade, The Cloud, To the Skylark, The Mask of Anarchy, Adonais
  From Prometheus Unbound: "Preface", "The Song of Asia" (Act II)
  Criticism: The Defence of Poetry John Kea
  ts: On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer, When I have Fears, On the Sea, On Sitting Down to Read King Lear Once Again, On the Elgin Marbles, The Eve of St Agnes, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Psyche, To Autumn, Bright Star
  From Fall of Hyperion: Induction
  Excerpts from the Letters John Clare: From The Shepherd's Calendar: "January", I Am

1.     Fiction in the 19th Century

Required Reading: Choose one novel by 6 of the following authors:

• Sir Walter Scott
• Charlotte Brontë
• Emily Brontë
• Mary Shelley
• Charles Dickens
• William Makepeace Thackeray
• Mrs Gaskell
• George Eliot
• Thomas Hardy

2.     Victorian Poetry

Required Reading

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Mariana, The Lady of Shallott, The Lotus-Eaters, From In Memoriam A.H.H.: "Prologue", I-III, L, LIV, LVI, Break, break, break, The splendour falls..., Tears, Idle Tears, Crossing the Bar
• Robert Browning: My Last Duchess, A Toccata of Galuppi's, Home-Thoughts, From Abroad
• Elisabeth Barrett Browning: From Sonnets from the Portuguese 1, 43
• Dante Gabriel Rossetti: The Blessed Damozel, Sudden Light, From The House of Life: Sonnets LXIX, LXXVII
• Christina Rossetti: Song, Remember
• Algernon Charles Swinburne: The Garden of Proserpine
• Gerard Manley Hopkins: God's Grandeur, Spring, The Windhover
• Thomas Hardy: The Darkling Thrush, Under the Waterfall, Neutral Tones

Anthologies and Criticism

• Szenczi Miklós (ed.). Szöveggyujtemény a XIX. sz. korának angol irodalmából
• Abrams, M.H. (ed.) English Romantic Poets: Modern Essays in Criticism
• Abrams, M.H. The Correspondent Breeze: Essays on English Romanticism
• Abrams, M.H. The Mirror and the Lamp
• Abrams, M.H. Natural Supernaturalism: Tradition and Revolution in Romantic Literature
• Bate, W.J. From Classic to Romantic
• Bloom, Harold. A Visionary Company. A Reading of English Romantic Poetry
• Bostetter, E.E. The Romantic Ventriloquists
• Bowra, M. The Romantic Imagination
• Frye, Northrop. A Study of English Romanticism
• Perkins, D. The Quest for Permanence
• Raimond, Jean and Watson, J.R. A Handbook to English Romanticism
• Stevenson, Lionel. The Pre-Raphaelite Poets
• Armstrong, Isobel. Victorian Poetry. Poetry, Poetics and Politics
• Richards, Bernard. English Poetry of the Victorian Period 1830-1890
• Cecil, David. Early Victorian Novelists
• Fraiman, Susan. Unbecoming Women: British Women Writers and the Novel of Development
• Garret, Peter. The Victorian Multiplot Novel
• Gilbert-Gubar. The Mad Woman in the Attic
• Kada Júlia (ed.). Huszonöt fontos angol regény
• Kettle, A. An Introduction to the English Novel
• Kiely, Robert. The Romantic Novel in England
• Miller, J. Hillis. The Form of Victorian Fiction
4. English Literature in the 20th century

0.     Poetry. Modernism and After: Yeats, Eliot, Auden and D. Thomas

Required Reading

• W. B. Yeats: To the Rose upon the Rood of Time, The Lake Isle of
• Innisfree, Upon a House shaken by the Land Agitation, The Wild Swans
• at Coole, An Irish Airman foresees his Death, The Fisherman, Easter 1916, The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Leda and the Swan, Among School Children, A Dialogue of Self and Soul, Lapis Lazuli, The Circus Animals' Desertion, Under Ben Bulben
• T. S. Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste Land
• W. H. Auden: Ode, A Summer Night, Paysage Moralisé, A Bride in the 30's, Dover, Musé des Beaux Arts, In Memory of William Butler Yeats, The Shield of Achilles
• Dylan Thomas: Before I knocked and flesh let enter, After the Funeral, Poem in October, Fern Hill, Do not go gentle into that good night

1.     Prose. Tradition and Experiment: James, Conrad, Joyce, Woolf and Lawrence

Required Reading

• Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
• Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness or Lord Jim
• James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
• Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway or To the Lighthouse
• D. H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers or The Rainbow or Women in Love

2.     Drama. Realism, Poetry and the Absurd: Shaw, Osborne, Yeats, Eliot, Beckett

Required Reading

• G. B. Shaw: Widowers' Houses or Mrs Warren's Profession, Saint Joan
• John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
• W. B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen or The Shadowy Waters or The Only Jealousy of Emer
• T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral or The Cocktail Party
• Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot or Endgame Criticism
• Báti László and Kristó Nagy István (eds.). Az angol irodalom a huszadik században
• Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel
• Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd.
• Hamilton, Ian (ed.). The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry
• Innes, Christopher. Modern British Drama, 1890-1990
• Kada Júlia (ed.). Huszonöt fontos angol regény
• Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry. 2 vols.
• Stevenson, Randall. Modernist Fiction: An Introduction
• Stewart, J. I. M. Eight Modern Writers. Vol. 12 of the Oxford History of English Literature
• Taylor, John Russell. Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama

ELTE - Modern British Literature Course

List of works to read:

Barnes, Julian: Flaubert's Parrot

Beckett, Samuel: [Waiting for Godot]; Endgame; Krapp's Last Tape Carter, Angela: The Bloody Chamber

Duffy, Carol Ann: Sit at Peace; Adultery; Mrs Lazarus

Dunn, Douglas: Second Opinion; Empty Wardrobes; The Clear Day

Fowles, John: The French Lieutenant's Woman Harrison,

Tony: V. Heaney, Seamus: Digging; Funeral Rites; The Tollund Man; Bog Queen; Glanmore Sonnets

Hughes, Ted: The Thought-Fox; Wodwo; Crow's First Lesson, Apple Tragedy; Crow's Theology; February 17^th; Fulbright Scholars

 Larkin, Philip: Church Going; The Whitsun Weddings; High Windows; Sad Steps; The Importance of Elsewhere

McGuckian, Medbh: The Dowry Murder; Venus and the Rain; From the Dressing Room Iris Murdoch: The Sea, The Sea Osborne, John: Look Back in Anger

Pinter, Harold: The Caretaker

Rushdie, Salman: Midnight's Children

Stoppard, Tom: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead; Arcadia

Winterson, Jeanette: Written on the Body

Bibliography Dodsworth, Martin, ed.: The Penguin History of Literature: The Twentieth Century, 1994 Ford, Boris, ed.: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature, 8. The Present, 1983 Bradbury, Malcolm: The Modern British Novel, 1994 Esslin, Martin: The Theatre of the Absurd, 1980 Hamilton, Ian: The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English, 1996 Innes, Christopher: Modern British Drama 1890-1990, 1992 Perkins, David: A History of Modern Poetry: Modernism and After, 1987

Sarbu Aladár Tanár Úr miskolci lisája:

British literature in the second half of the 20^th century

The Course

This course surveys the history of literature in Britain from the end of the Second World War to the present. The lectures focus on individual achievements in each major genre. Fiction is represented by Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe, Doris Lessing, Iris Murdoch, William Golding, Lawrence Durrell, John Fowles, Salman Rushdie, Kazuo Ishiguro and some less well-known authors. The principal considerations in discussing these authors are their reaction to the changes in post-war British society, the relationship, in their novels, between traditional and avant-garde ways of writing, as well as the lessons they hold for literary theory. Drama is approached in much the same spirit, with special attention to the natureof the reaction—direct or indirect— to social change in the plays of John Osborne and Arnold Wesker, and to varieties of the absurd in Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard. Of the lyric poetry of the period, the work of Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney is in the centre of attention, but other important, although less well-known, poets—Tony Harrison and Douglas Dunn, etc.—are also drawn into the field covered.

Examinations

Depending on the number of students signing up for the course, the examination will be either written or oral. The examination dates will be announced before the end of November.

Lecture Schedule and Topics

  1. General Introduction

  2. “Anger” and Fiction: Kingsley Amis, John Wain, John Braine, Alan Sillitoe

  3. Psychology and Politics in the Novels of Doris Lessing

  4. The Moral Quest of Iris Murdoch

  5. The Moral Quest of William Golding

  6. Experimenting: Lawrence Durrell and John Fowles

  7. Magic Realism and Salman Rushdie

  8. Politics and Morality in the Novels of Kazuo Ishiguro

  9. Realism, Naturalism, and the “Condition of England”: The Plays of John Osborne and Arnold Wesker

10. The Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett

11. The Theatre of the Absurd: Harold Pinter and Tom Stoppard

12. “Resignation” in the Poetry of Philip Larkin

13. Nature and the Man-made World: Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney

14. Conclusion

Required Reading

Fiction

Kingsley Amis                         Lucky Jim

Alan Sillitoe                             “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner”

Iris Murdoch                           Under the Net

William Golding                       Lord of the Flies

John Fowles                            The French Lieutenant's Woman

Kazuo Ishiguro            The Remains of the Day

Drama

John Osborne                          Look Back in Anger

Samuel Beckett                       Waiting for Godot

Harold Pinter                           The Birthday Party

Tom Stoppard                         Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Poetry

Philip Larkin                            “Church Going”; “The Whitsun Weddings”; “Dockery and Son”;

Ted Hughes                             “Horses”; “An Otter”; “A Childish Prank”; “Crow’s First Lesson”; “Crow and the Birds”; “Daffodils”

Seamus Heaney                       “Death of a Naturalist”; “Churning Day”; “The Tollund Man”; “Mossbawn: Two Poems in Dedication”; “Funeral Rites”; “The Harvest Bow”

Recommended Reading

Fiction

John Braine                             Room at the Top

Alan Sillitoe                             Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

Doris Lessing                           The Grass Is Singing

Lawrence Durrell                     Justine

Salman Rushdie                       Midnight's Children

Drama

Arnold Wesker                        Chips with Everything

Samuel Beckett                       Endgame

Poetry

Thom Gunn                             “On the Move”

Douglas Dunn                          “Gardeners”

Tony Harrison                         “Book Ends”; “Timer”; “Turns”; “Long Distance”

Criticism

The following books, in varying degrees, are helpful in studying the literature of the period my lectures cover. Some of them may not be available in the libraries serving the University, I will, therefore, deposit relevant chapters or sections of the most useful ones in the departmental library.

Fiction

Báti László—Kristó Nagy István, eds. Az angol irodalom a huszadik században. Budapest 1970.

Bergonzi, Bernard. The Situation of the Novel. London, 1970.

Bényei Tamás. Az ártatlan ország. Az angol regény 1945 után. Debrecen, 2003.

Bradbury, Malcolm. The Modern British Novel. London, 1993.

Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 8. The Present Harmondsworth, 1983.

Gindin, James. Postwar British Fiction: New Accents and Attitudes. Berkeley, 1963.

Kada Júlia, ed. Huszonöt fontos angol regény. Budapest, 1996.

Karl, Frederick R. A Reader's Guide to the Contemporary English Novel. London, 1961, rev. 1972.

Tew, Philip. The Contemporary British Novel. London, 2004.

Waugh, Patricia. Harvest of the Sixties: English Literature and its Background 1960 to 1990. Oxford, 1995.

Drama

Esslin, Martin. The Theatre of the Absurd. 1961. Harmondsworth, 1968.

Innes, Christopher: Modern British Drama 1890-1990. Cambridge, 1992.

Shellard, Dominic. British Theatre since the War. New Haven, 1999.

Taylor, John Russell. Anger and After: A Guide to the New British Drama. London, 1962.

Poetry—Editions and Anthologies

Philip Larkin. Collected Poems. Ed. Anthony Thwaite. London, 1988.

Ted Hughes. Selected Poems 1957-1981. London, 1982.

Ted Hughes. Birthday Letters. London, 1998.

Seamus Heaney. New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London, 1990.

Seamus Heaney. Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996. London, 1999.

The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry. Ed. Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion. Harmondsworth, 1982.

The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Third Edition. Ed. Alexander W. Allison et al New York, 1983.

The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry. Second Edition. Ed. Richard Ellmann et al. New York, 1988.

As the books listed above may not be easily available, I will leave copies of the poems to be read in the library. You can, then, use these as master copies for producing your own texts.

Poetry—Criticism

Davie, Donald. Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988. Manchester, 1989.

Hamilton, Ian, ed. The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Oxford, 1992.

Perkins, David. A History of Modern Poetry. Vol. II. Modernism and After. Cambridge, Mass., 1987.

És még mindig a Nyíregyházi Főiskoláról az angol irodalom szigorlat kötelező olvasmányai:

Fiction
DANIEL DEFOE: Robinson Crusoe / Moll Flanders
SIR WALTER SCOTT: Waverley / Ivanhoe
JANE AUSTEN: Pride & Prejudice / Sense and Sensilbility
EMILY BRONTË: Wuthering Heights
MARY SHELLEY: Frankenstein / Modern Prometheus
WILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY: Vanity Fair
CHARLES DICKENS: David Copperfield / Great Expectations
THOMAS HARDY: Tess of the d'Urbervilles
HENRY JAMES: The Turn of the Screw / The Portrait of a Lady
VIRGINIA WOOLF: Mrs Dalloway
E. M. FORSTER: A Room with a View / Howard's End / A Passage to India
D. H. LAWRENCE: Sons and Lovers
JOSEPH CONRAD: Heart of Darkness
KINGSLEY AMIS: Lucky Jim
JOHN FOWLES: The French Lieutenant's Woman
WILLIAM GOLDING: Lord of the Flies

Plays

1. CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE: Dr Faustus
2. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: Hamlet, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Macbeth
3. BEN JONSON: Volpone
4. OSCAR WILDE: The Importance of Being Earnest
5. G. B. SHAW: Mrs Warren's Profession
6. SAMUEL BECKETT: Waiting for Godot
7. JOHN OSBORNE: Look Back in Anger
8. HAROLD PINTER: The Birthday Party
9. TOM STOPPARD: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead

Essays:

1. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: excerpts from the Preface to Lyrical Ballads
2. MATTHEW ARNOLD: excerpts from Culture and Anarchy
3. VIRGINIA WOOLF: Modern Fiction
4. T. S. ELIOT: Tradition and the Individual Talent
5. TED HUGHES: Poetry and Violence

Short stories:

1. JAMES JOYCE: Araby, Evelyn, The Dead
2. ALAN SILLITOE: The Lonliness of the Long Distance Runner

Poetry

1. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: The Sonnets
2. WILLIAM BLAKE: Introduction, The Lamb, the Chimney Sweeper, Holy Thursday, Nurse's Song from Songs of Innocence; Introduction, The Tyger, The Chimney Sweeper, Holy Thursday, Nurse's Song, London from Songs of Experience
3. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH: I Wandered Lonely, She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways, A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal, Sonnet Composed upon Westminster Bridge, The Solitary Reaper, Tintern Abbey
4. S. T. COLERIDGE: Frost at Midnight, Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. LORD BYRON: When We Two Parted, She Walks in Beauty, Darkness, excerpts from Cantos 1 and 3 of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
6. P. B. SHELLEY: Ozymandias, England in 1819, Ode to the West Wind
7. JOHN KEATS: When I have Fears, La Belle Dame Sans Merci, Ode on a Grecian Urn, Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn
8. LORD TENNYSON: Ulysses, The Lady of Shallot
9. ROBERT BROWNING: My Last Duchess, Meeting at Night, A Toccata of Galuppi
10. MATTHEW ARNOLD: Dover Beach
11. D. G. ROSSETTI: The Blessed Damozel

Álljon itt a Nyíregyházi Főiskola angol regény tárgyi listája

Jane Austen: Pride & Prejudice
Jane Austen: Sense & Sensibility
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
Dickens: Oliver Twist
Dickens: David Copperfield
W.H. Thackeray: Vanity Fair
George Eliot: Middlemarch
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Hardy: Tess of D'urbevilles
Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray
D.H. Lawrence: The Rainbow
Huxley: Brave New World
Huxley: Point Counterpoint
Joyce: Dubliners
Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway
Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse
John Galsworth: The Forsyte Saga
Orwell: Animal Farm
Orwell: 1984
Golding: Lord of the Flies