Course Code: EN 1117

Course Title: ANGLO-AMERICAN LITERATURE

Course Description:
This course is a survey course of the literary forms or genres as exemplified by selected literary texts
from various parts of America and England written at different periods in American and English
literary history.

FIRST QUARTER
The Literatures of England

The Anglo-Saxon Age

Beowulf

The Period of Middle English

Lord Randall
Geoffrey Chaucer, The
Canterbury Tale
(selections)
Sir Thomas Malory,
Le Morte d’Arthur

The Elizabethan Age

Christopher Marlowe,
The Passionate
Shepherd to his
Love
William Shakespeare,
Macbeth
Francis Bacon,
Of Studies
Of Revenge

Puritan and Restoration Age

John Milton, Paradise
Lost
Samuel Pepys, Diary
of Pepys
Richard Lovelace, To
Althea, from
Prison
John Bunyan, The
Pilgrim’s Progress:
Vanity Fair

SECOND QUARTER
The Eighteenth Century
Alexander Pope, The
Rape of the Lock
Jonathan Swift,
Gulliver’s Travels:
 The Voyage to
Lilliput
Samuel Johnson,
Letter to Lord
Chesterfield
William Blake, The
Tiger
Robert Burns, My
Heart’s in the
Highland

The Age of Romanticism

William Wordsworth,
The World Is Too
Much With Us
Samuel Taylor
Coleridge, Kubla
Khan
Percy Bysshe Shelley,
Ode to the West
Wind
The Victorian Age
Alfred Tennyson, The
Lady of Shalott
Elizabeth Barrett
Browning,
Sonnets from
the Portuguese I,
VI, XIV, XLIII
Robert Browning,
Rabbi
Ben Ezra
Charles Dickens,
Pickwick Papers:
Mr. Pickwick on
the Ice
Matthew Arnold,
Dover Beach

The Literatures of America

National Beginnings
Washington Irving,
Rip Van Winkle
James Fennimore
Cooper, The
Frairie
Edgar Allan Poe, The
Raven
Nathaniel Hawthorne,
My Kinsman,
 Major Molineux

Romanticism and Reason

Ralph Waldo
Emerson,
Self-Reliance
Henry David Thoreau,
Walden Pond
Emily Dickinson,
Success I Taste A
Liquor Never
Brewed
Walt Whitman, When
I Heard About
the Learned
Astronomer

THIRD QUARTER
The 19th Century American Literature

Stephen Crane, The

Bride Comes to Yellow
Sky
Carl Sandburg, I am the
People, the Mob
Sinclair Lewis, Babbitt
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The
Great Gatsby
John Steinbeck, The
Pearl

Modern American Literature

Ernest Hemingway, The

Old man and the Sea
Shirley Jackson, The
Lottery
Robert Frost, Mending
Wall
The Road not Taken
William Faulkner, As I
Lay Dying
Toni Morrison, The
Bluest Eyes
Alice Walker, Everyday
Use
FOURTH QUARTER

Contemporary English Literature

Virginia Woolf, Mrs.
Dalloway
Graham Greene, Heart of
the Matter
E. M. Forster, Where
Angels Fear to
Thread
James Joyce, A Portrait
of the Artist as a
Young Man
D.H. Lawrence, Women
in Love

Evaluation Methods/Tasks

Reading of short stories, novels and poems found in the country

Participation in discussions
Library research
Formal written paper
EXAM