British Literature: Core List
- Beowulf, "Deor," "The Dream of the Rood," "The Wanderer"
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
- Geoffrey Caucer, The Canterbury Tales: "The General Prologue," "The Miller's Prologue and Tale," "The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale," "The Clerk's Tale," "The Franklin's Tale," "The Pardoner's Prologue & Tale," "The Nun's Priest's Tale,"
- Sir Phillip Sidney, An Apology for Poetry (work here)
- William Shakespeare, Hamlet
- William Shakespeare, MacBeth
- William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice
- John Milton, Paradise Lost (Books 1, 2, 4, 9)
- Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock
- Henry Fielding, Joseph Andrews
- Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
- William Wordsworth, "Preface to Lyrical Ballads," "Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey," "Intimations of Immortality," The Prelude (Books 1, 9, 10, 13, & 14)
- Emily Brontë, Wurthering Heights
- Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit
- Lord Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam
- James Joyce, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
- Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead
- WWI, Yeats, and Auden Bundle: Rupert Brooke, "The Soldier"; Wilfred Owen, "Dulce et decorum est," "Anthem for Doomed Youth"; Sigfried Sassoon, "Glory of Women," "Repression of War Experience," "They"; Isaac Rosenberg, "Break of Day in the Trenches"; Robert Graves, "The Next War"; W.B. Yeats, "The Wild Swans at Coole," "The Second Coming," "Sailing to Byzantium," "Byzantium," "Easter 1916," "Leda and the Swan," "The Lake Isle of Innisfree," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," "Under Ben Bulben"; W.H. Auden, "In Memory of WB Yeats," "The Shield of Achilles," "Musee des beaux arts," "September 1, 1939," "In Memory of Sigmund Freud," "Ode to Terminus"
- Zadie Smith, White Teeth
American Literature Core Exam Reading List
- Colonial (Beginnings to 1820)
- Non-Fiction
- Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Part 1
- Poetry
- Anne Bradstreet: "The Prologue," "The Author to Her Book," "Contemplations," "A Letter to Her Husband, Absent Upon Public Employment," "Here Follows Some Versus Upon the Burning of Our House"
- Romantic (1820-1865)
- Fiction
- Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter, "Young Goodman Brown," "The Birth-Mark"
- Non-Fiction
- Henry David Thoreau: Walden, "Resistance to Civil Government"
- Poetry
- Walt Whitman: "Song to Myself," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," "The Wound Dresser"
- Realistic (1865-1914)
- Fiction
- Mark Twain: Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
- Kate Chopin: The Awakening
- Non-Fiction
- Frederick Douglass: Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
- Poetry
- Emily Dickinson (grouped by theme)
- Nature
- #207 (#214): I taste a liquor never brewed
- #320 (#258): There's a certain Slant of Light
- #359 (#328): A Bird came down the Walk
- #905 (#861): Split the lark and you'll find the music
- Death, Immortality, Religion
- #124 (#216): Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
- #236 (#324): Some keep the Sabbath going to Church
- #202 (#185): "Faith" is a fine invention
- Mind, Soul, and Self
- #620 (#435): Much Madness is divinest Sense
- #339 (#241): I like a look of Agony
- #598 (#632): The Brain is wider than the Sky
- #312 (#252): I can wade Grief
- Modern (1914-1950)
- Fiction
- William Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
- Zora Neale Hurston: Their Eyes Were Watching God
- Poetry
- T.S. Eliot: The Waste Land, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
- Langston Hughes: "The Negro Speaks of Rivers," "I, Too," "Dream Boogie," "Cross," "Mulatto," "Christ in Alabama," "Mother to Son," "Homecoming," "Green Memory," "Silhouette," "Let America Be America Again," "Harlem [Dream Deferred]," "Theme for English B," "Song for a Dark Girl"
- Robert Frost: "Design," "Out, Out--," "Birches," "After Apple-Picking," "The Road Not Taken," "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening," "Desert Places," "Mending Wall," "Home-Burial," "Acquainted with the Night," "Directive"
- Drama
- Tennessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire
- Post WWII (1950-Present)
- Fiction
- Toni Morrison: Beloved
- Flannery O'Connor: "A Good Man is Hard to Find," "Good Country People," "Everything That Rises Must Converge," "Revelation"
- Poetry
- Gwendolyn Brooks: "The Bean Eaters," "We Real Cool," "The Near-Johannesburg Boy," "An Aspect of Love, Alive in the Ice and Fire: La Bohem Brown," "the mother," "kitchenette," "the children of the poor" (1-5), "A Lovely Love," "To Those of My Sisters Who Kept Their Naturals," "The Chicago Picasso, 1986"
- Allen Ginsberg: "Howl," "America," "A Supermarket in California," "Sunflower Sutra"
- Drama
- David Henry Hwang: M. Butterfly
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