English Literature

English Literature

Read widely. As well as your set texts you will need to read other works by the same author and key works of the period/genre. Beyond that follow your own literary interests. There are some ideas below to get you started, and the Reading for Fun page gives ideas for some quality contemporary titles. To keep up-to- date, it is also worth reading the journals, following book prizes and attending literary festivals. Hay-on-Wye is the Glastonbury for book lovers.

Literary Criticism & Non-Fiction Poetics, Aristotle Shakespeare on Toast, Ben Crystal Myths and Legends, Anthony Horrowitz This is Shakespeare, Emma Smith The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli The Elizabethan World Picture, E M W Tillyard Verse Soul of the Age, Jonathon Bate Beowulf The Gothic (Blackwell Guides to Literature), David John Milton (Paradise Lost) Punter and Glennis Byron Geoffrey Chaucer (try The Pardoner’s Tale) Doing English, Robert Eaglestone Andrew Marvell The Poetry Handbook, John Lennard John Donne Critical Terms for Literary Study, Frank Lentricchia William Wordsworth The Force of Poetry, Christopher Ricks John Keats An Introduction to Literature, Criticism and William Blake Theory, A Bennett Alfred Tennyson English Literature in Context, P Poplawski Robert Browning The Short Oxford History of English Literature, A Sanders Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Art of Fiction, David Lodge Samuel Taylor Coleridge Literary Theory, Terry Eagleton Thomas Hardy Christina Rossetti Jonathon Swift Wilfred Owen Lawrence Sterne TS Eliot Henry Fielding Dylan Thomas Fiction: Early C19th – Romantic & Gothic Alan Ginsberg Jane Austen Simon Armitage Mary Shelley Seamus Heaney Fiction: C19th – Victorian Carol Anne Duffy Thomas Hardy Benjamin Zephaniah Emily Bronte Drama Charles Dickens Samuel Beckett William Thackeray Alan Bennett Charlotte Bronte Bertolt Brecht Elizabeth Gaskell Jez Butterworth George Eliot Anton Chekhov Fiction: Early C20th – Science Fiction Shelagh Delaney H G Wells Brian Friel Aldous Huxley Henrik Ibsen George Orwell Arthur Miller Fiction: Early C20th – Modernist Harold Pinter James Joyce William Shakespeare D H Lawrence George Bernard Shaw Virginia Woolf Richard Brinsley Oscar Wilde Sheridan Polly Stenham Fiction: Post-war C20th & C21st Sam Shephard P G Wodehouse Tom Stoppard John Fowles John Webster Kazuo Ishiguro Tennessee Williams Susan Hill Timberlake Wertenbaker Jeanette Winterson Oscar Wilde Sebastian Faulks Fiction: C18th - Early Novelists Angela Carter Daniel Defoe Pat Barker Zadie Smith

Fiction: North American Literary Prizes Mark Twain Wellcome Book Prize

John Steinbeck Man Booker Prize F Scott Fitzgerald Orwell Book Prize Joseph Heller James Tait Black Memorial Prizes Henry James International Dylan Thomas Prize Ernest Hemingway Rathbone Folio Baillie Gifford Alice Walker Forward Prize for Poetry Toni Morrison Saltire Society Journals

Hodder English Literature Review

Times Literary Supplement Websites http://poetrysociety.org.uk/ https://literaryreview.co.uk/ https://www.the-tls.co.uk/ https://www.writersinspire.org/ Podcasts A Good Read, BBC Radio 4 Book Club, BBC Radio 4 Literary Festivals Oxford (oxfordliteraryfestival.org/) Port Eliot (porteliotfestival.com/) Aldeburgh (aldeburghbookshop.co.uk/page/the-Aldeburgh-literary-festival) Edinburgh (edbookfest.co.uk) Cheltenham (cheltenhamfestivals.com/literature) Hay-on-Wye (hayfestival.com) Women’s Prize for Fiction Costa Book Prize