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Annapolis - Literature Seminar and Tutorial Reading Lists

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Literature Tutorial Reading List
Revised 12/04/04

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.

You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Classes 1-8 are on Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in Middle English, selections
2. Classes 9-14 are on Shakespeare's King Lear (or another Shakespeare play with the approval of the Director)
3. Classes 15-24 are on Lyric Poetry: Sydney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Yeats, others
4. Classes 25-28 are on a short work of fiction
5. Classes 29-32 are to be used to extend the study of any of the above

Literature Seminar Reading List
Revised 7/12/04

NOTES:
Whenever possible, buy editions with line numbers.

You may wish to refer to a notebook in the college bookstore with tutors' commentary about different translations of the various texts.

1. Homer, lliad, I-VI
2. Homer, lliad, VII-XII
3. Homer, Iliad, XIII-XVIII
4. Homer, Iliad, XIX-XXIV
5. Homer, Odyssey, I-VIII
6. Homer, Odyssey, IX-XVI
7. Homer, Odyssey, XVII-XXIV
8. Aeschylus, Agamemnon
9. Aeschylus, Libation Bearers; Eumenides
10. Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
11. Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus
12. Sophocles, Antigone
13. Euripides, Hippolytus
14. Euripides, Bacchae
15. Aristotle, Poetics
16. Aristophanes, Frogs