Set texts and specified topics

Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, in The Riverside Chaucer, gen. ed. Larry D. Benson (Oxford, 1987), Book 3, Lines 1-1414; Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, ed. J. R. R. Tolkien and E. V. Gordon, rev. N. Davis, (Oxford, 1967), lines 1535-1997; William Langland, The Vision of Piers Plowman, (B Text), ed. A. V. C. Schmidt, second edition (London, 1995), Passus XVIII.

Topics on which optional questions will be set:

Christ's Body; Passion and Lyricism; Idleness and Inactivity.

Sub-periods and core texts

1500-1579: Sir Thomas More, Utopia, tr Ralph Robinson, in Three Early Modern Utopias, Susan Bruce (ed), Oxford World Classics, 1999; Emrys Jones (ed) New Oxford Book of Sixteenth Century Verse, 1991, Skelton to Surrey;

1579-1642: Sir Philip Sidney, The Defence of Poesy, Astrophil and Stella, Ben Jonson, Every Man in His Humour, Sejanus, Volpone, The Alchemist, Bartholomew Fair;

1642-1700: Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle, The Blazing World;

John Milton, Paradise Lost.

Sub-periods and core texts

1688-1744: Anthony Ashley Cooper, Earl of Shaftesbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions, Times; Alexander Pope, the 1743 Dunciad;

1744-1789: David Hume, Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding; Laurence Sterne, The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy;

1789-1847: William Wordsworth, The 1805 Prelude; Jane Austen, Persuasion.

Sub-periods and core texts

1830-1895: Charles Dickens, Bleak House; Alfred Tennyson, In Memoriam;

1895-1945: TS Eliot, Selected Poems; Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse;

Post-1945: Samuel Beckett, Collected Shorter Plays; Iain Sinclair, Lights out for the Territory.

Hamlet.

The following topics are specified for special study:

Section A: Practical Criticism.

Section B: The Function of Criticism; Theories of Versification; Writing and the Unconscious.

Classical Greek

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Plato: On Poetry, ed. Penelope Murray (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1996).

Sophocles: Antigone, ed. Mark Griffith (Cambridge Greek and Latin Classics, 1999).

Recommended Text for Section C

Homer: Iliad, 1, ed. with introduction, translation, and commentary by Simon Pulleyn (OUP, 2000).

Classical Latin

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Virgil: Aeneid , II.

Horace: Satires I.i; I.iv; II.i; II.v; II.vi; II.vii , ed. H. Rushton Fairclough (Loeb, 1926, many times reprinted).

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of Latin verse: Lucretius, De rerum natura, I.1-43; III.830-1094; IV.1052-1287; Catullus, 1;2;3;5;7;11;13;16;21;22;29;31;34;26;42;46;62;64;69;85;101; Virgil, Eclogues 4;6; Georgics IV.281-566; Ovid, Amores, I; Metamorphoses, I.1-162; XV.75-476; Heroides, 5;7;10;18;19; Horace, Odes, I.iv; I.v; I.ix; I.xii; I.xxii; I.xxxvii; II.xiv; II.xx; III.i; III.xiii; III.xxx; IV.i; IV.vii; Juvenal, Satires 1;6; Lucan, Pharsalia, III.375-452; IX.950-1108; Seneca, Medea, 740-1027.

French

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Racine : Andromaque.

Flaubert : Trois Contes, ed. P.-M. de Biasi (GF-Flammarion, 1986, variously reprinted).

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of French verse: Villon; Ronsard; du Bellay; La Fontaine; Hugo; Baudelaire; Verlaine; Rimbaud; Mallarmé; Apollinaire.

German

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Goethe: Faust , Part I.

Brecht: Mutter Courage und ihre Kinder.

Recommended Text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of German verse: Luther; Angelus Silesius; Goethe; Hölderlin; Novalis; Heine; Rilke; Celan.

Italian

Set Texts for Sections A and B

Dante: Purgatorio, I-XVIII.

Primo Levi: Se questo è un uomo (Einaudi Tascabili, 1953, many times reprinted).

Recommended text for Section C

A Faculty online anthology of Italian verse: Cavalcanti; Dante; Petrarch; Ariosto; Tasso; Michelangelo; Leopardi; Ungaretti; Montale; Fortini.

Old English

Set texts for Sections A and B

SECTION A: Beowulf: A Student Edition, ed. George Jack (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994), ll. 710-1191.

SECTION B: Beowulf (entire).

Recommended Texts for Section C

Caedmon's Hymn; Preface to the Translation of Gregory's Pastoral Care; Translation of Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, selections: 'Proem', 'On Government', and 'Orfeus and Eurydice'; The Wanderer; The Seafarer; Deor; Wulf and Eadwacer; Riddles 5, 7, 12, 29, 43, 45, 55; The Wife's Lament; The Husband's Message; The Ruin; The Dream of the Rood; Passion of Saint Edmund; The Battle of Maldon; Judith; Wulfstan's Sermo Lupi ad Anglos; Apollonius of Tyre. All these texts are available in Old and Middle English: An Anthology, ed. Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Blackwell, 2000).

Specified Topics: Argument, Borrowing, Pastiche.

Early Middle English:

Set Texts.

All the following four texts and line numbers are taken from A Book of Middle English, ed. J. A. Burrow and Thorlac Turville-Petre, second edition (Oxford: Blackwell, 1996):

Owl and Nightingale, lines 1-252.

Lawman's Brut, lines 1-173.

Ancrene Wisse, lines 1-93.

Harley Lyrics, in Selection 13, g-k.

Ywain and Gawain, ed. Albert B. Friedman and Norman T. Harrington, EETS 254 (London: Oxford University Press, 1964; rpt. 1982), lines 1-312.

Anglo-Norman:

Set Texts.

La Chanson de Roland, ed. F. Whitehead, rev. T. D. Hemming (London: Bristol Classical Press, 1993), lines 1671-1760, 2375-2475.

Le Mystère d'Adam, in Medieval Drama, ed. David Bevington (Boston, 1975), lines 113-357.

Marie de France, 'Laüstic' and 'Chevrefoil', in Lais, ed. Alfred Ewert (1944; rpt. Oxford, Blackwell, 1987).

The Romance of Horn, ed. Mildred K. Pope, Anglo-Norman Texts, 9-10 (Oxford: Blackwell, 1955), lines 4099-4308.

Beroul, Le Roman de Tristan, ed. Alfred Ewert (1939; rpt. Oxford: Blackwell, 1988), lines 1835-2088.

Latin:

Set Texts.

Nigel of Longchamp, Speculum Stultorum, ed. J. H. Mozley and R. R. Raymo (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1960), lines 1503-1708.

Latin Lyrics: as in Faculty Booklet.

Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium, ed. M. R. James, rev. C.N.L. Brooke and R.A.B. Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), p. 224, line 17 - p. 232, line 28.

Andreas Capellanus, De Amore, ed. P. G. Walsh (London: Duckworth, 1982), p.104, para. 229 - p.110, para. 246, end.