Every English major will take a senior capstone exam based in 2018 on the following reading list.
Beowulf (Seamus Heaney translation)
William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew
John Milton, Paradise Lost
Alexander Pope, Rape of the Lock
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights
Henry James, Portrait of a Lady
Anne Carson, “The Glass Essay”
J. M. Coetzee, Foe
Louise Erdrich, Tracks
Jean Toomer, Cane
Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night
Andrew Marvell: “The Garden,” “To His Coy Mistress,” “On Mr. Milton’s Paradise Lost,” “Upon Appleton House,” “The Mower against Gardens,” “Damon the Mower,” “The Mower to the Glowworms,” “The Mower’s Song,” “The Definition of Love,” “Bermudas,” “An Horatian Ode upon Cromwell’s Return from Ireland,” “The Nymph complaining for the Death of her Fawn,” “The Picture of Little T.C. in a Prospect of Flowers,” “The Fair Singer,” “Eyes and Tears, “ “On a Drop of Dew”
Gerard Manley Hopkins: “Binsey Poplars,” “God’s Grandeur,” “Pied Beauty,” “Hurrahing in Harvest,” “Spring and Fall,” “The Windhover,” “As Kingfishers Catch Fire,” “Spelt from Sibyl’s Leaves,” “Felix Randal, “ “Harry Ploughman,” “The Wreck of the Deutschland,” and “Terrible Sonnets” of 1885: “Carrion Comfort,” “No worst, there is none,” “To seem the stranger,” “I wake and feel,” “Patience,” “My own heart”
Elizabeth Bishop: “The Map,” “The Imaginary Iceberg,” “The Gentleman of Shalott,” “The Man-Moth” “Seascape,” “The Fish,” “At the Fishhouses,” “Over 2,000 Illustrations and a Complete Concordance,” “Arrival at Santos,” “Questions of Travel,” “The Armadillo,” “Sestina,” “Sandpiper,” “In the Waiting Room,” “Crusoe in England,” “The Moose,” “One Art,” “Poem”