Some Personal Reading Options, Part 2

Below is a list of British authors whose works would be options for the Personal Reading Option.  I've put an asterisk (*) next to ones that I particularly recommend and added title of specific works that I think would be suitable for this class.  This is by no means an exhaustive list.

The Middle Ages

Beowulf  (11^th century)

Chaucer:  The Canterbury Tales  (1343 – 1400)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight  (14^th century)

Piers Plowman  (1360 – 1387)

Everyman

Sir Thomas Malory:  Morte D’arthur (1405 – 1471)

16^th Century

Edmund Spencer:  The Faerie Queene  (1552 – 1599)

*William Shakespeare:  plays and sonnets  (1564 – 1616) [The Tempest, Hamlet, MacBeth, Twelfth Night]

Sir Walter Raleigh:  (1554 – 1618) 

King James Bible (1604 – 1611)

17^th Century

John Donne  (1572 – 1631)

Ben Jonson  (1572 – 1637)

George Herbert  (1593 – 1633)

Andrew Marvell

John Milton

Francis Bacon

John Locke

Samuel Pepys

Sir Isaac Newton

*Jane Austen [Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility]

Restoration and 18^th Century

John Bunyan

*Daniel Defoe [Robinson Crusoe]

*Jonathon Swift [Gulliver's Travels]

Alexander Pope

Samuel Johnson

*Oliver Goldsmith [She Stoops to Conquer]

Romantic Period (1798 – 1832)

William Blake

Robert  Burns

William Wordsworth

Samuel Coleridge

Charles Lamb

Lord Byron

Percy Bysshe Shelley

John Keats

*Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley [Frankenstein]

*Sir Walter Scott [Ivanhoe, Rob Roy]

*Robert Louis Stevenson [Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]

Victorian Age (1832 – 1901)

Thomas Carlyle

John Henry Cardinal Newman

 Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lord Alfred Tennyson

Robert Browning

Edward Fitzgerald

*Emily Bronte [Wuthering Heights]

*Charlotte Bronte [Jane Eyre, Villette]

*Anne Bronte [Agnes Grey, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall]

John Ruskin

Arthur Hugh Clough

Matthew Arnold

Dante Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Algernon Swinburne

Edward Lear

*Lewis Carroll [Alice in Wonderland]

Charles Darwin

*Sir Arthur Conan Doyle [ The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes]

*Oscar Wilde [Importance of Being Earnest]

*Rudyard Kipling [Kim, The Jungle Book]

*G. K. Chesterton [The Man Who was Thursday, The Innocence of Father Brown]

*George Eliot [Middlemarch, The Mill on the Floss, Adam Bede]

*Charles Dickens [Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield]

*Wilkie Collins [The Woman in White, The Moonstone] 

*Elizabeth Gaskell [Mary Barton, Cranford]

*Dorothy Sayers [The Nine Tailors, Murder Must Advertise, Busman's Holiday]

20^th Century

Thomas Hardy

*Gerard Manly Hopkins

*George Bernard Shaw [Arms and the Man, Androcles and the Lion]

William Butler Yeats

E. M. Forster [Howards End]

Virginia Woolf

James Joyce

D. H. Lawrence

Edwin Muir

*T. S. Eliot [The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, Murder in the Cathedral]

*George Orwell [Animal Farm, 1984]

Samuel Beckett

W. H. Auden

Doris Lessing

Harold Pinter