Reading List for History of English Literature

Dr hab. Monika Mazurek

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The Anglo-Saxon Period

1. THE ELEGIAC TRADITION: The Wanderer, Deor's Lament. THE EARLY RELIGIOUS TRADITION: The Dream of the Rood.

2. THE HEROIC TRADITION: Beowulf (“Prologue” - ll. 1 - 98, Beowulf's Fight with Grendel” - ll. 710 - 823, “The Lament” ll. 2241 - 2270, “Beowulf's Funeral' - ll. 3137 - 3182)

The Middle English Period

3. MEDIEVAL ROMANCE: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (selection: Part 1, Part 3, Part 4)

4. Thomas Malory Morte d'Arthur - (selections from NAEL)

5-6. Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales (“The General Prologue”, “The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale”, “The Miller's Prologue and Tale”)

* since NAEL editors chose to publish Chaucer in the original spelling, students (while encouraged to give it a try) are permitted to read a modern-spelling version.

7. Women's voices: Julian of Norwich A Book of Showings and Margery Kempe (selections from the NAEL)

8. Everyman

The Renaissance

9. Elizabethan poetry: Thomas Wyatt “Whoso list to hunt”, “Who list his wealth and ease retain”, Henry Howard “Th' Assyrians' king, in peace with foul desire”, Philip Sidney Astrophil and Stella 2, Edmund Spenser Amoretti 64

10. Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus

11. William Shakespeare The Sonnets: 1, 18, 20, 55, 116, 129, 130, 138, 144

12. William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

13. William Shakespeare The Tempest

14. Metaphysical poets - John Donne “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “The Sun Rising”, “The Flea”, “Air and Angels”, Holy Sonnets XIV (“Batter my heart...”);

15. Metaphysical poets - George Herbert - “The Collar”, “Easter Wings”, “Love” (3) (“Love bade me welcome…”), Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”

Anthologies:

• The College Anthology of English Literature. Eds Zygmunt Mazur and Teresa Bela. Kraków: Universitas, 1997.

• The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Eds. Stephen Greenblatt et al. Vol 1. New York: Norton, 2006. (NAEL)

Course requirements

• All classes are accompanied by study guides on my website. Before each class the group has to answer all the questions for this week's class and hand in a print-out of their answers.

• In order to receive the pass grade (“zaliczenie”) for the course and be allowed to take the exam in the first session, you have to pass the majority of “flash tests”. “Flash tests” are very short tests checking the students' knowledge of the text assigned for this week's class. They will not be announced in advance and you cannot retake the failed ones.

• Students are allowed 2 (two) absences for reasons OTHER THAN an illness confirmed by a sick note. If you miss more classes, there is no possibility to make up for them.