PH.D GENERAL EXAMINATION READING LIST PAPER ONE 1. Poetry Beowulf "Wifes Lament" (in various places, eg. Marckwardt and Rosier, Old English [Norton]; W.F. Boulton, An Old English Anthology Chaucer: House of Fame, Book of the Duchess, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl Lydgate, John, Troy Book (selections) Henryson, Robert, Testament of Cressid (ed. Denton Fox) Bokenham, "Lives of Holy Women" (selections) Marlowe, Christopher, Hero and Leander Sidney, Sir Philip, Astrophil and Stella Spenser, Edmund, The Faerie Queene , Book II Lanyer, Aemilia, "Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum" Donne, John, Songs and Sonets : "The Good-morrow," "Song" ("Go and catch a falling star"), "The Undertaking," or "Platonic Love," "The Indifferent," "The Canonization," Air and Angels," "Break of Day," "The Anniversary," "Twickenham Garden," "Loves Growth" or "Spring," "Mummy" or "Loves Alchemy," "The Flea," "A Nocturnal upon St Lucys Day," "The Bait," "A Valediction: forbidding mourning," "The Ecstasy," "The Funeral," "The Relic" Herrick, Robert | |
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