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    Yr 13 - Love Through the Ages

    Readling List (LITA3)  


    A Love through the Ages Reading List:

    Prose:
    The Scarlett Letter – Nathaniel Hawthorne.
    Sons & Lovers – D.H Lawrence.
    Waterland – Graham Swift.
    We Need To Talk About Kevin – Lionel Shriver.
    Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte.
    The Great Gatsby – F. Scott Fitzgerald.
    Enduring Love – Ian McEwan.
    Atonement – Ian McEwan.
    Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte.
    Wide Sargasso Sea – Jean Rhys.
    1984 – George Orwell.
    Brave New World – Aldous Huxley.
    The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood.
    Wise Children – Angela Carter.
    White Teeth – Zadie Smith.
    Brick Lane – Monica Ali.
    The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time – Mark Haddon.
    Oranges are Not The Only Fruit – Jeanette Winterson.
    Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis de Bernieres.
    Lady Chatterley’s Lover – D.H Lawrence.
    Maurice – E.M Forster.
    Moll Flanders – Daniel Defoe.
    The Woodlanders – Thomas Hardy
    Bleak House Charles Dickens
    Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Edward Albee
    Poor Cow / Up the Junction Nell Dunn  
    The Fifth Child Doris Lessing
    Maps for Lost Lovers Nadeem Aslam
    We Need to Talk About Kevin Lionel Shriver
    Digging to America Anne Tyler
    Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
    The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald

    Drama:
    All My Sons – Arthur Miller.
    A View from the Bridge / The Crucible Arthur Miller
    A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde
    Cat on a Hot Tin Roof – Tennessee Willams.
    A Streetcar Named Desire – Tennessee Williams.
    The Rover – Aphra Behn
    Tis Pity She’s A Whore – John Ford.
    The White Devil – John Webster.
    Translations – Brian Friel.
    My Mother Said I Never Should - Caryl Churchill.

    Poetry:
    14th Century The Middle Ages:
    •    Chaucer –     The Miller’s Tale – parody of Courtly and Chivalric love
                The Knight’s Tale – Courtly, Chivalric Love
                The Wife of Bath’s Tale
            
    15th Century:
    •    Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur

    16th Century , The Renaissance (1509 – 47) and The Elizabethans (1558 – 1603):
    •    Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 42) Greatly influenced by Petrarch – lots of sonnets
    •    Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -86) “Astrophil and Stella” sonnets (read a couple)
    •    Edmund Spenser (1552 – 91) “The Faerie Queene” (just read a bit of this… unless you like it of course, then knock
    yourselves out.)
    •    Shakespeare (1565 – 1616) Sonnets – “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun” and “The expense of spirit in a waste
    of Shame”

    16th and 17th Century – Jacobean (1603 – 25)


    The Metaphysicals:
    •    John Donne (1572 – 1631) “ The Flea”, “The Sunne Rising”
    •    Andrew Marvel (1621 – 78) “To His Coy Mistress”

    17th Century
    •    John Milton (1608 – 74) (I’ll find you some extracts from “Paradise Lost”. You don’t have to read it all)

    18th Century – The Augustans:


    •    Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) “The Rape of the Lock

    18th Century – The Romantics:


    •    William Blake (1757 – 1827) “Songs of Innocence and Experience” Read a couple of each.
    •    William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) “The Lucy Poems”
    •    Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1776 – 1849) “Frost at Midnight”
    •    John Keats (1795 – 1821) “La Belle Dame sans Merci”
    •    George, Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) “Don Juan” was his great work, but if you’d like a shorter version, try
    “Beppo”. (Hilarious)

    19th Century – The Victorians (1837 – 1901)


    •    Christina Rossetti (1831 – 94) “A Birthday”, “Remember”
    •    Emily Dickinson (1830 – 86) “My Life Closed Twice”, “Love’s Stricken Way”
    •    Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 92) “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”
    •    William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) “When you are old and grey and full of sleep” “Prayer for my daughter”
    •    Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) “The Voice” ( written after the death of his wife)

    20th Century – The Edwardians


    War Poems:
    Wilfred Owen
    Vera Brittain

    20th Century – Modernism (1910 – 52)


    •    TS Eliot (1888 – 1965) “The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock” – sad, sad, sad. A man who has not dared to love, not dared
    to be that vulnerable.
    •    WH Auden (1907 – 1973)

    20th Century – Post Modernism (1952 - )


    •    Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998)  - “Birthday Letters”
    •    Sylvia Plath (1932 – 63)
    •    Philip Larkin 1922 – 1985)
    •    Wendy Cope (1945 -)
    •    Jackie Kaye (1961 - )
    •    Pablo Neruda “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”

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