British Literature, 2-Semester Course (Independent Use Student License)

Description

This course provides an overview of British Literature from the Anglo-Saxon period to the 21st century with a focus on the unique social, historical and cultural context of each reading. The course includes a variety of genres for a rich exposure to the vast body that is British Literature. Students will study works of prose, poetry, drama and fiction in relation to the literary period in which they were written. The texts lend themselves to meaningful discussions of light and dark, love and hate, nature, humanity, knowledge, redemption, family, forgiveness, spirituality, and courage.

Part 1 Readings (not included)

• selections from Shakespeare’s Sonnets (free digital text)
• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare (240 pgs, Cliffs Complete)
• Beowulf, abridged (74 pgs)
• Poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson:  “Crossing the Bar”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade” (free digital text)
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens (112 pgs)

Part 2 Readings (not included)

• Poetry by John Keats: “Bright Star”
• Poetry by William Wordsworth: “Lines Written in Early Spring” and “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”
• The Screwtape Letters by C. S. Lewis (224 pgs)
• Leaf by Niggle by J.R.R. Tolkien (58 pgs)
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (166 pgs)
• The Ball and the Cross by G. K. Chesterton (272 pgs)

(1 Student License; includes 36 Lessons)