T-Matt's Texts

The English Renaissance and Seventeenth Century:
Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Sir Philip Sidney: An Apology for Poesy and Astrophel and Stella (selections)
William Shakespeare: Richard III
John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
John Milton: "L'Allegro" and "Il Penseroso"

Restoration and Eighteenth Century:
Wycherley: The Country Wife
Behn: Oroonoko
Gay: The Beggar's Opera
Pope: Moral Epistles 1 and 3, Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot, and one poem.
Johnson: "Preface to Shakespeare"

Romantics / Nineteenth Century:
Byron: Don Juan (Cantos I-IV)
Dickens: Bleak House
Browning, R. : "My Last Duchess," "The Bishop Orders His Tomb..." "Caliban Upon Setebos," "Childe Roland from the Dark Tower Came"
Browning, E.B. : "Aurora Leigh" (Books 1, 2, and 5)

American Lit (Pre-1900):
Freneau: Three poems.
Edwards: "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter and two tales.
Major poets: Longfellow, Whittier, Holmes, Lowell
Dreiser: Introducing Dreiser's work/style via An American Tragedy (not on list)
Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Twentieth Century:
Conrad: Heart of Darkness
Woolf: Touching briefly on The Waves (not on list)
G.B. Shaw: Man and Superman
Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
Faulkner: The Sound and the Fury
Hemingway: The Sun Also Rises
Wright: Native Son
Pound: Selected poems.
Stevens: Selected poems.
O'Neill: Long Day's Journey Into Night
T. Williams: Streetcar Named Desire
Robert Lowell: Selected poems.
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So if we're going to turn Communist and redistribute the wealth here, I'm willing to relinquish Hawthorne, Conrad, Faulkner, and Hemingway to any stout-hearted comrade willing to take them (to the streets).