English Department – British Literature, 1900 to the Present
Reading List 2011-2012 –British Literature, 1900 to
the Present
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Fiction
Elizabeth Bowen
The Last September
E. M. Forster
A Passage to India
Evelyn Waugh
Vile Bodies
Graham Swift
Waterland
Poetry*
Thomas Hardy
“A Trampwoman’s Tragedy”
“The Ruined Maid”
Ivor Gurney
“The Silent One”
May Wedderburn Cannan
“Rouen”
W. B. Yeats
“Adam’s Curse”
“Lapis Lazuli”
“When You Are Old”
Stevie Smith
“Sunt Leones”
“Our Bog is Dood”
W. H. Auden
“Lullaby”
“The Unknown Citizen”
Anne Carson
“The Glass Essay”
Paul Muldoon
“Milkweed and Monarch”
“The Grand Conversation”
Carol Ann Duffy
“Mrs. Lazarus”
Secondary Works
Chris Baldick. Chapter 14, Part III (“England and the English”) in The Oxford English
Literary History: Volume 10: 1910-1940: The Modern Movement. Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 2004. **
Randall Stevenson. Chapter 17 (“Longer Shadows and Darkness Risible”) in The Oxford
English Literary History: Volume 12: 1960-2000: The Last of England? Oxford,
England: Oxford University Press, 2004. **
* All poems on the list are in The Norton Anthology of English Literature. Volume F: The
Twentieth Century and After. (8th ed.) Eds. Jon Stallworthy and Jahan Ramazani.
New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2006.
** On reserve at Penrose Library.
