Rate my literature degree's reading list /lit/

All that Henry James?

Please transfer schools

>>9743903
It's a good school though anon, one of the best

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That is really fucking bad dude

>>9743934
you definitely go to a state school

Glad to see Carlyle on there. Aside from that it's a very strange course. I hope this isn't meant to be a general survey of English literature because there are some extraordinary exclusions, most obviously the comparative lack of poetry total lack of drama. Very heavy on Anglo-Saxon, then a huge gap to relatively modern literature. The lack of Chaucer, Pearl Poet, miracle plays, Spenser, Shakespeare, Marlowe, Donne, Milton, Bunyan, Dryden, Sterne, Keats, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Coleridge, Trollope, Austen etc. leads me to think this course can't be meant to be a general overview of literature but has to be specialised in some way -- but I can't tell what that specialisation would be.

>>9743878
wew

>>9745294
and* total lack of drama

>>9743903
Dude spit the red pill as Victorian melodrama. Huge cuck.

>>9743878

>2 T.S Eliot books
>no poetry

This is infuriating.

>>9745228
It's Oxford actually

>>9745814
As far as I'm aware the books include the poems necessary for the course, and I'm encouraged to read more of each author than is already shown if I enjoy them.
>>9745294
This is the first year study at Oxford, and it's split deliberately between Old English for the first term, Victorian literature for the second term, and then twentieth-century literature for the third term. As far as I'm aware the first year is to give us an effective grounding in the subject, and allows for branching out in later years.

I made the spreadsheet from this article, if anyone would like to take a look:

http://www.balliol.ox.ac.uk/admissions/undergraduate-admissions/english-reading-list