Graduate Institute in Liberal Arts

Literature Seminar and Tutorial Reading Lists - Summer

Literature Tutorial Reading List - Summer
The reading assignment for the first tutorial should be completed before the first class meeting.

First assignment:  Chaucer, Canterbury Tales, “The General Prologue” in Middle English (all Chaucer assignments will be in Middle English). Penguin paperback and the Everyman hardcover

Weeks One through Three - 12 meetings
Chaucer, Canterbury Tales IN MIDDLE ENGLISH. 
Assignments will be made by the tutor.

Week Four - 4 meetings
Shakespeare, King Lear

Week Five (Monday, Tuesday) - 2 meetings
Aristotle, Poetics

Week Five (Wednesday, Friday) through Eight - 13 meetings
The sonnet and other selected English lyric poetry:  Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Wordsworth, Keats, Hopkins, Eliot, Yeats, Stevens, et al.

Literature Seminar Reading List - Summer
Monday and Thursday 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.

The reading assignment for the first seminar should be completed before the first class meeting.

Week One
           l.      Homer, Iliad Books I‑VI
          2.      Iliad Books VII‑XII

Week Two
          3.      Iliad Books XIII‑XVIII
          4.      Iliad Books XIX‑XXIV

Week Three
          5.      Homer, Odyssey, Books I‑VIII
          6.      Odyssey Books IX‑XVI

Week Four
          7.      Odyssey Books XVII‑XXIV
          8.      Aeschylus, Agamemnon

Week Five
          9.      Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (Choephoroe) and Eumenides
         10.      Sophocles, Antigone

Week Six
         11.      Sophocles, Oedipus Rex
         12.      Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Week Seven
         13.      Euripides, Hippolytus
         14.      Euripides, Bacchae

Week Eight
         15.      Euripides, Electra
         16.      Aristophanes, Frogs