Reading List for Majors

Shakespeare:

• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Twelfth Night
• The Tempest
• Richard II
• Henry IV, part 1
• Antony and Cleopatra
• King Lear
• Othello
• Hamlet
• Macbeth
• Sonnet 18 ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day")
• Sonnet 29 ("When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes")
• Sonnet 73 ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")
• Sonnet 146 ("Poor soul, the center of my sinful earth")

Jonson:

• Volpone
• The Alchemist

Donne:

• "The Ecstasy"
• "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning"
• "Holy Sonnet 14" ("Batter my heart, three-personed God")

Herbert:

• "The Collar"
• "Love (III)"

Marvell:

• "To His Coy Mistress"
• "The Garden"

Milton:

• Paradise Lost

Dryden:

• "MacFlecknoe"

Pope:

• "The Rape of the Lock"

Swift:

• Gulliver's Travels

Fielding:

• Joseph Andrews

Burney:

• Evelina

Boswell:

• Life of Johnson (abridged) (Penguin Edition)