Monday, April 4, 2011

The Great Reading Auction

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. 



 

1 comment:

  1. JHo's Current List:
    I 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"

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