"that interminable list!"

20th Century American Literature:

Poetry:
John Ashbery Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (1975)
Ted Berrigan The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan (1969)
John Berryman The Dream Songs (1969)
Elizabeth Bishop The Complete Poems: 1927-1979
Gwendolyn Brooks Blacks (1987)
Hart Crane The Bridge (1930)
Anne Carson Autobiography of Red (1998)
H.D. Collected Poems: 1912-1944
Rita Dove Museum (1983)
Sonata Mulattica (2009)
T.S. Eliot Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
The Waste Land (1922)
Ash Wednesday (1930)
Four Quartets (1943)
Robert Frost The Poetry of Robert Frost (1969)
Barbara Guest The Confetti Trees (1999)
Allen Ginsberg Howl (1956)
Lyn Hejinian My Life (1987)
Langston Hughes Selected Poems (1987)
Robinson Jeffers Robinson Jeffers: Selected Poems (1965)
Louise Gluck The Wild Iris (1993)
Kenneth Koch Collected Poems (2005)
Yusef Komunyakaa The Pleasure Dome (2004)
Robert Lowell Life Studies (1959)
Marianne Moore The Complete Poems (2003)
Alice Notley Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970-2005
Frank O’Hara The Collected Poetry of Frank O’Hara (1995)
Sharon Olds Strike Sparks: Selected Poems, 1980-2002
George Oppen Collected Poems (1975)
Sylvia Plath Ariel (1965)
Adrienne Rich An Atlas of the Difficult World (1991)
Kay Ryan Elephant Rocks (1996)
William Stafford The Way It Is (1998)
Gertrude Stein Tender Buttons (1914)
Wallace Stevens Collected Poems (1954)
W. C. Williams Spring and All (1923)

Fiction:
Paul Auster City of Glass (graphic novel with David Mazzucchelli and Paul Karasik (1994)
Saul Bellow Herzog (1964)
Willa Cather Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927)
The Professor’s House (1925)
Don DeLillo White Noise (1985)
Dave Eggers A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (2000)
Ralph Ellison Invisible Man (1953)
William Faulkner The Sound and the Fury (1929)
Absalom, Absalom (1936)
Joseph Heller Catch-22 (1961)
Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Jack Kerouac On The Road (1937)
Nella Larsen Passing (1929)
Maxine Hong Kingston Woman Warrior (1971)
Henry Miller Tropic of Cancer (1934)
Carson McCullers A Member of the Wedding (1946)
Toni Morrison Beloved (1987)
Vladimir Nabokov Lolita
Pale Fire (1962)
Sylvia Plath The Bell Jar (1971)
Thomas Pynchon The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Gravity’s Rainbow (1973)
Philip Roth Portnoy’s Complaint (1969)
Art Spiegelman The Complete Maus (1992)
Kurt Vonnegut Slaughterhouse Five; or, The Children's Crusade (1969)
Breakfast of Champions; or, Goodbye Blue Monday (1973)
Hocus Pocus (1990)
Alice Walker The Color Purple (1982)
David Foster Wallace Infinite Jest (1996)
Edith Wharton The Age of Innocence (1920)

Drama:
Edward Albee Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962)
Susan Glaspell Trifles (1917)
Loraine Hansberry A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
Arthur Miller The Death of a Salesman (1949)
Eugene O’Neill Long Day’s Journey Into the Night (1956)
Tennessee Williams The Glass Menagerie (1945)
August Wilson Fences (1985)

Non-fiction/Criticism
Christopher Beach The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century Poetry
Malcolm Bradbury The Modern American Novel
James Breslin From Modern to Contemporary: American Poetry, 1945-1965 (1985)
Judith Butler Gender Trouble (1990)
Louise Gluck Proofs and Theories: Essays on Poetry (1994)
Lyn Hejinian The Language of Inquiry (2000)
Marjorie Perloff The Poetics of Indeterminacy (1999)
Adrienne Rich Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution (1976)
Poetry and Commitment: An Essay (2007)
Susan Rosenbaum Professing Sincerity (2007)
Susan Stewart On Longing (1993)
Lionel Trilling Sincerity and Authenticity (1970)


20th Century British Literature
Caroline Ramsey
Committee Member: Dr. Adam Parkes

Poetry:
W.H. Auden Selected Poems (1979)
Louise Bennett “Jamaican Language,” “Dry-Foot Bwoy,” “Colonization in Reverse,” “Jamaican Omen” (1966)
Basil Bunting Briggflatts (1965)
Donald Davies Collected Poems (1991)
Carol Ann Duffy Selected Poems (2009)
T.S. Eliot Prufrock and Other Observations (1917)
The Waste Land (1922)
Ash Wednesday (1930)
Four Quartets (1943)
William Empson Collected Poems (1930-1976)
Roy Fisher City (1962)
Robert Graves Collected Poems (1914-1947)
W. S. Graham The Nightfishing (1955)
Thom Gunn Collected Poems (1994)
Thomas Hardy Collected Poems (1919)
Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist (1966)
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-1996 (1998)
Geoffrey Hill Mercian Hymns (1971)
“An Apology for the Revival of Christian Architecture in England”
Ted Hughes Collected Poems (2003)
Philip Larkin Collected Poems (1988)
Mina Loy The Lost Lunar Baedeker (1996)
Derek Mahon Selected Poems (2001)
Paul Muldoon New Selected Poems: 1968-1994 (1996)
Wilfred Owen "Anthem for Doomed Youth", "Dulce Et Decorum Est", "The Parable of the Old Man and the Young" and "Strange Meeting
Ezra Pound Canzoni (1911)
Ripostes (1912)
A Draft of XXX Cantos (1930)
A.K. Ramanujan “Self Portrait,” “Elements of Composition”
Isaac Rosenberg Selections from Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Carol Rumens Selected Poems (1968-2004)
Stevie Smith Selected Poems (1962)
Penelop Shuttle Selected Poems (1998)
Dylan Thomas Collected Poems, 1934-1952
Derek Walcott Selected Poems (2007)
W.B. Yeats Collected Poems (1933)

Fiction:
Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart (1958)
Kingsley Amis Lucky Jim (1954)
Julian Barnes Flaubert’s Parrot (1984)
Samuel Beckett Watt (1953)
Molloy (1955)
John Berger To the Wedding (1995)
Elizabeth Bowen The Last September (1929)
Anthony Burgess A Clockwork Orange (1962)
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness (1902)
Nostromo (1904)
The Secret Agent (1907)
E.M. Forster Howards End (1910)
A Passage To India (1924)
Aldous Huxley Brave New World (1932)
Christopher Isherwood Goodbye to Berlin (1939)
Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day (1989)
Henry James The Wings of the Dove (1902)
The Golden Bowl (1904)
James Joyce Dubliners (1914)
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1916)
Ulysses (1922)
Finnegans Wake (1939)
D.H. Lawrence Sons and Lovers (1913)
The Rainbow (1915)
Women in Love (1921)
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)
Doris Lessing “To Room Nineteen” (1963)
Wyndham Lewis Tarr (1918)
Mina Loy Insel (1991)
Ian McEwan Amsterdam (1998)
Iris Murdoch Under the Net (1954)
V. S. Naipaul A House For Mr. Bizwas (1961)
A Bend in the River (1979)
George Orwell Nineteen Eighty-Four (1949)
Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)
Salman Rushdie Midnight’s Children (1981)
A Moor’s Last Sigh (1995)
Samuel Selvan The Lonely Londoners (1956)
Alan Sillitoe Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1958)
Evelyn Waugh Decline and Fall (1928)
A Handful of Dust (1934)
Virginia Woolf Jacob’s Room (1922)
Mrs. Dalloway (1925)
To The Lighthouse (1927)
Orlando (1928)
The Waves (1931)
Between the Acts (1941)

Drama:
Samuel Beckett Waiting for Godot (1952)
Endgame (1957)
Harold Pinter The Birthday Party (1958)
The Homecoming (1965)
George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak House (1919)
Tom Stoppard Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966)
The Real Inspector Hound (1968)
Travesties (1974)
John Synge Playboy of the Western World (1907)
W.B. Yeats Cathleen ni Houlihan (1902)
On Baile’s Strand (1903)

Non-Fictional Prose:
W. H. Auden The Dyer’s Hand (1962)
Elizabeth Bowen Collected Impressions (1950)
Joseph Conrad preface to The Nigger of Narcissus (1897)
Henry James preface to The Portrait of a Lady (1907)
preface to The Golden Bowl (1909)
T.S. Eliot “Tradition and the Individual Talent” (1917)
“The Metaphysical Poets” (1921)
“Ulysses, Order and Myth” (1923)
“The Function of Criticism” (1923)
William Empson Seven Types of Ambiguity
Ford Madox Ford “On Impressionism” (1924)
Samuel Hynes The Edwardian Turn of Mind (1998)
D. H. Lawrence selected essays from Phoenix (1936):
“Art and Morality”
“Surgery for the Novel—Or a Bomb”
“Why the Novel Matters”
“Morality and the Novel”
“Pornography and Obscenity”
Mina Loy Feminist Manifesto (1914)
Virginia Woolf A Room of One’s Own (1929)
The Common Reader (1925)
The Common Reader: Second Series (1932)
W.B. Yeats “The Symbolism of Poetry” (1900)
A Vision (1937)
Mythologies (1959)

Criticism:
Timothy Clark Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism (2001)
Donald Davie Thomas Hardy and British Poetry (1973)
Rita Felski The Gender of Modernity (1995)
Paul Fussell The Great War and Modern Memory (1977)
Samuel Hynes The Auden Generation (1976)
Hugh Kenner The Pound Era (1971)
Sinking Island: The Modern English Writers (1988)
Michael Levenson A Genealogy of Modernism (1984)
The Cambridge Companion to Modernism (1999)
F. R. Leavis The Great Tradition: George Eliot, Henry James, Joseph Conrad (1962)
Jeffrey Perl The Tradition of Return (1984)
Michael North Reading 1922 (1999)
Camera Works (2005)
Victor Sherry The Great War and The Language of Modernism (2004)

Victorian Literature (not yet finalized):

Poetry:
Matthew Arnold “Shakespeare”
“To Marguerite–Contined”
“The Buried Life”
“The Scholar-Gipsy”
“Stanzas from the Grand Chartreuse”
“Thyrsis”
“Dover Beach”
Emily Bronte “The night is darkening around me”
“The Night Wind”
“To Imagination”
“Plead for Me”
“Remembrance”
“Death”
“Stars”
“The Prisoner”
“No coward soul is mine”
“I’m happiest when most away”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning “Bertha in the Lane”
“Cry of the Children”
“A Curse for a Nation”
“Felicia Hemans”
“Grief”
“Mother and Poet”
“The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim’s Point”
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Aurora Leigh
Robert Browning “Porphyria’s Lover”
“My Last Duchess”
“Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister”
“Love Among the Ruins”
“A Woman’s Last Word”
“Fra Lippo Lippi”
“A Toccata of Galuppi’s”
“Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”
“How it Strikes a Contemporary”
“Andrea Del Sarto”
“One Word More”
“Caliban Upon Setebos”
“Why I Am a Liberal”
Edward Fitzgerald “Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam”
Thomas Hardy “Hap”
“Drummer Hodge”
“The Darkling Thrush”
Felicia Hemans “Casabianca”*
Thomas Hood “Song of the Shirt”
Gerard Manley Hopkins “The Habit of Perfection”
“Spring”
“God’s Grandeur”
“The Windhover”
“Pied Beauty”
“Spring and Fall”
A.E. Housman A Shropshire Lad (Selections from Mermin and Tucker*)
Rudyard Kipling “The Ballad of East and West”
“Mandalay”
“Tommy”
“The Widow at Windsor”
“Recessional”
“The White Man’s Burden”
Amy Levy “Xantippe”
“London in July”
“Felo de Se”
“Magdalen”
“A Farewell”
“On the Threshold”
“A Reminiscence”
William Morris “The Defense of Guenevere”
Coventry Patmore The Angel in the House (Excerpts from Mermin and Tucker*)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti “My Blessed Damozel”
“Jenny”
The Hosue of Life (Selections from Mermin and Tucker*)
Christina Rossetti “In an Artist’s Studio”
“A Birthday”
“Up-Hill”
“Goblin Market”
“A Triad”
“Remember”
“After Death”
“The Hour and the Ghost”
“Echo”
“Winter: My Secret”
“The Convent Threshold”
“Memory”
“The Lowest Place”
“A Pause”
Algernon Swinburne “The Leper”
“Hymn to Proserpine”
“Hermaphroditus”
“The Garden of Proserpine”
“Ave ateque Vale”
“A Forsaken Garden”
“Poeta Loquitur”

Alfred Tennyson “Marianna”
“The Lady of Shalott”
“The Palace of Art”
“The Kraken”
“The Lotos-Eaters”
“St. Simon Stylites”
“Ulysses”
“Morte d’Artur”
“Locksley Hall”
In Memoriam A.H.H.
“The Charge of the Light Brigade”
“Maud: A Monodrama”
“Enoch Arden”
Augusta Webster “A Castaway”
Oscar Wilde “Impression du Matin”
“The Harlots House”
“Symphony in Yellow”
“The Ballad of Reading Gaol”

Fiction:
Anne Bronte Agnes Grey
Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre
Villette
Emily Bronte Wuthering Heights
Joseph Conrad Heart of Darkness
Charles Dickens Bleak House
Oliver Twist
A Tale of Two Cities
George Eliot Middlemarch
Daniel Deronda
Henry James The Portrait of a Lady
Daisy Miller
The Great Good Place
The Turn of the Screw
Thomas Hardy Jude the Obscure
Rudyard Kipling Kim
Margaret Oliphant Miss Marjoribanks
Bram Stoker Dracula
Oscar Wilde The Picture of Dorian Gray



Drama:
Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest
Others by Wilde?*

Non-Fiction:
Matthew Arnold “The Function of Criticism at the Present Time”
Preface to Poems, 1853
The Study of Poetry (Excerpt from Mermin and Tucker*)
Thomas Carlyle Sartor Restartus*
“The Gospel of Mammonism”
“Happy”
Kathleen Cuffe “A Reply from the Daughters”
B.A. Crackenthorpe “The Revolt of the Daughters”
Isabella Beeton The Book of Household Management*
Sarah Stickney Ellis The Women of England (Selection from Mermin and Tucker)*
Sarah Grand “A New Aspect of the Woman Question”
Fanny Kemble Journal of a Residence on a Georgian Plantation (Excerpts*)
J.S. Mill “What is Poetry?”
On Liberty (Excerpts*)
Eliza Lynn Linton “The Girl of the Period”
Harriet Martineau Autobiography (Excerpts*)
William Morris “The Art of the People”
“How I Became a Socialist”
Florence Nightengale Cassandra
Ouida “The New Woman”
Walter Pater The Renaissance (Excerpts*)
Dante Gabriel Rossetti “The Stealthy School of Poetry” (Excerpt from Mermin and Tucker*)
John Ruskin Modern Painters (Excerpts*)
The Nature of Gothic (from Mermin and Tucker*)
Praeterita (Excerpts*)
The Stones of Venice (Excerpts*)
Mary Seacole The Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
Oscar Wilde “The Decay of Lying”

* I’ve asterisked writers or works that I’m uncertain about. In most cases, I’m unsure of what would be appropriate to include (selections, excerpts) or what other works I might be missing that would benefit my list.

My "Huge Ribbon-cutting Ceremony"

After this morning's meeting with Dr. Parkes, I decided to create a blog to record my preparatory notes for my comprehensive exams. My lists: 20th c. American Literature, 20th c. British Literature, and Victorian Literature. (Actual list post to follow.)

I intend for this blog to organize my thoughts/ideas/arguments in a public forum to which colleagues, friends, and strangers can contribute. It seems like a helpful way to get discussion and feedback efficaciously and conveniently. Plus, hopefully people will inspire me to keep it interesting and creative, and additionally call me out if I fall behind schedule. I'll appreciate any help I can get from literarians on the web.

So here I sit, in half-lotus at my kitchen table, poised to bare my book-loving brain for the world wide web... The big question, as always: To publish?