Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
• Report on some aspect of social history that relates to particular works of literature. What
Jane Austen Knew and Charles Dickens Ate is an interesting book on nineteenth-century
life.
• Select any work of British literature that interests you and discuss how it illustrates major
characteristics of literary trends.
• Why do we consider Vanity Fair to be one of the greatest examples of the 19th century
critical realism?
• What themes does Charlotte Bronte touch upon in Jane Eyre?
• Why has Byron often been called a poet of “world sorrow”?
• What themes did Oscar Wilde touch on his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray?
• Explain what makes it possible to link Galsworthy with the best writers of world literature.
Recommended literature
1. William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet, Twelfth Night
2. John Donne.(1572-1631): The Good Morrow, Good Friday.
3. John Milton. (1608-1674): Paradise Lost.
4. John Bunyan. (1628-1688): The Pilgrim’s Progress.
5. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731): The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe.
6. Jonathan Swift.(1667-1745): Gulliver’s Travels .
7. Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Rape of the Lock, Ode on Solitude, The Universal Prayer.
8. William Blake (1757-1827): Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, The Marriage of
Heaven and Hell.
9. William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The World is Too Much With Us, The Daffodils, The
Rainbow, The Solitary Reaper
10. George Gordon Byron (1788 – 1824): When we two parted, Song for the Luddites
11. John Keats (1795-1821): On a Grecian Urn.
12. Walter Scott (1771-1832): Ivanhoe
13. Charlotte Brontë (1816-1855): Jane Eyre.
14. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility
15. Charles Dickens (1812-1870): Christmas Carol, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield,
16. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
17. Lewis Carroll: Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
18. William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair
19. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900): The Picture of Dorian Gray
20. Robert Browning (1812-1889): My Last Duchess.
21. Gerald M. Hopkins (1844-1889): Pied Beauty
22. William B. Yeats (1865-1939): Easter 1916, The Circus Animals’ Desertion.
23. T. S. Eliot (1888-1965): Murder in the Cathedral, The Waste Land.
24. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950): Pygmalion, Major Barbara
25. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924): Heart of Darkness
26. D.H.Lawrence. (1885-1930): Sons and Lovers, England, My England.
27. James Joyce (1882-1941): A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses.
28. Virginia Woolf (1882-1941): Mrs. Dalloway. Modern Fiction.
29. George Orwell (1902-1950): Animal Farm.
30. Graham Green (1904-1990): End of the Affair
31. William G. Golding (1911- 1993): Lord of the Flies.