Reading List for English Majors

Chaucer:

• General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
• The Clerk's Prologue and Tale
• The Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
• The Franklin's Prologue and Tale
• The Pardoner's Prologue and Tale
• The Nun's Priest's Prologue and Tale
• The Miller's Prologue and Tale

Sidney:

• Astrophel and Stella:
  • 1 ("Loving in truth, and fain in verse my love to show")
  • 49 ("I on my horse, and Love on me, doth try")
  • 71 ("Who will in fairest book of Nature know")

Spenser:

• The Faerie Queene (Books I and III)