Texts definitely up for grabs (add to this if some are left off!)
Renaissance
--Sir Thomas Wyatt: selected poetry
--Henry Howard: Earl of Surrey: selected poetry
--Francis Bacon: Essays; either The Advancement of Learning or The New Atlantis
--Andrew Marvell (did someone take that?)
--17th C. Lyric poets: we still need takers for Herrick, Herbert, Traherne
Restoration
--Addison
--Boswell
--Thomson: Winter
Romantics
--Hemans
--Thackeray Vanity Fair
20th C
--Caryl Churchill
--Nella Larsen
--poems by Jarrel and Baraka
--Post what you are currently signed up for, what you're willing to give up, and for those who are racked at 9-12 novels, let's jump on the redistribution wagon.
JHo's Current List:
ReplyDeleteI can take some more!
Novels (4)
McTeague
James' Portrait of a Lady
Women in Love
Jane Eyre
Plays (4)
Mystery and morality plays; Second Shepherd's Play
Volpone
Rosencrantz & Gildenstern
Merchant of Venice
Poetry (4)
Tennyson's "Ulysses"
Ginsbergy
Shake's Sonnets
"Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
Other (5)
Chaucer's Pardoner's Tale
Emerson's "American Scholar" and "Self-Reliance" essays
Souls of Black Folk
Swift's Modest Proposal and poems
Johnson "The Vanity of Human Wishes"