Introduction to Literary Studies

List of works to choose from for the Oral Presentation

Poems

Sir Thomas Wyatt: ‘The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbour’; ‘Farewell, Love’

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: ‘Love, That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought’; ‘The Soote Season’

Sir Philip Sidney: ‘Astrophil and Stella’ 1, 39

Edmund Spenser: ‘Amoretti’ 75

William Shakespeare: Sonnets 60, 129

John Donne: ‘The Flea’

Robert Herrick: ‘To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time’; ‘To Daffadils’

Andrew Marvell: ‘To his Coy Mistress’

Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in Country Churchyard’

William Blake: ‘Infant Joy’, ‘Infant Sorrow’, ‘Holy Thursday’

William Wordsworth: ‘Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour’, ‘To the Cuckoo’, ‘The Solitary Reaper’, ‘A Night-Piece’

Samuel Taylor Colerdige: ‘Kubla Khan’, ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Frost at Midnight’.

Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ozymandias’, ‘Ode to the West Wind’, ‘To a Skylark’

John Keats: ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’, ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’, ‘Ode to a Nightingale’

Alfred Lord Tennyson: ‘Ulysses, ‘The Lotos-Eaters’.

Robert Browning: ‘Love Among the Ruins’

Thomas Hardy: ‘Hap’, ‘The Convergence of the Twain’, ‘Neutral Tones’, ‘The Self-Unseeing’, ‘At Castle Boterel’.

William Butler Yeats: ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘Easter 1916’, ‘Byzantium’, ‘The Lake Isle of Innisfree’, ‘The Wild Swans at Coole’, ‘The Second Coming’, ‘No Second Troy’; ‘Among School Children’; ‘The Tower’; ‘Meditations in Time of Civil War’; ‘The Circus Animals’ Desertion’

T. S. Eliot: ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’, ‘The WasteLand’

W. H. Auden: ‘A Summer Night’, ‘In Memory of William Butler Yeats’

Louis MacNeice: ‘The Sunlight on the Garden’, ‘Carrickfergus’; ‘Belfast’

Dylan Thomas: ‘Poem in October’, ‘Fern Hill’

Philip Larkin: ‘To my Wife’, ‘The Importance of Elsewhere’, ‘Mr. Bleaney’, ‘Church-going’

Ted Hughes: ‘Crow’s First Lesson’

Seamus Heaney: ‘Digging’, ‘Bogland’, ‘The Tollund Man’, ‘Bog Queen’, ‘The Grauballe Man’, ‘Punishment’, ‘Kinship’, ‘Casualty’, ‘Tollund’

Michael Longley: ‘Peace’, ‘Swans Mating’, ‘Wounds’, ‘The West’, ‘Landscape’

Derek Mahon: ‘The Snow Party’, ‘A Disused Shed in Co. Wexford’, ‘A Postcard from Berlin’, ‘Glengormley’, ‘Afterlives’; ‘Spring in Belfast’

John Montague: ‘Like Dolmens Round My Childhood’; ‘A Lost Tradition’; ‘A Grafted Tongue’, ‘The Cage’; ‘The Water Carrier’

Brendan Kennelly: ‘Dublin: A Portrait’; ‘My Dark Fathers’; ‘The Celtic Twilight’

Ciaran Carson: ‘Belfast Confetti’; ‘Turn Again’

Tom Paulin: ‘Fivemiletown’; ‘Desertmartin’; ‘In the Lost Province’

Paul Muldoon: ‘Why Bronwlee Left’; ‘The Electric People’

Plays

Everyman

Thomas Kyd: The Spanish Tragedy

Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing

Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew

Shakespeare: Othello

Shakespeare: Richard III

Shakespeare: King Lear

Shakespeare: Macbeth

Shakespeare: The Tempest

Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare: Julius Caesar

Shakespeare: The Winter’s Tale

Ben Jonson: Volpone

John Gay: The Beggar’s Opera

G. B. Shaw: Pygmalion

G. B. Shaw: Saint Joan

G. B. Shaw: Mrs Warren’s Profession

Sean O’Casey: Juno and the Paycock

J. M. Synge: The Playboy of the Western World

W. B. Yeats: The Countess Cathleen

T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

T. S. Eliot: The Cocktail Party

Samuel Beckett: Endgame

Harold Pinter: The Caretaker

Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Tom Stoppard: Dogg’s Hamlet, Cahoot’s Macbeth

Tom Stoppard: Travesties

Brian Friel: Translations

Brian Friel: Making History

Thomas Kilroy: The O’Neill

Tom Murphy: The Gigli Concert

Tom Murphy: The Patriot Game

Stewart Parker: Pentecost

Frank McGuiness: Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme

Arthur Miller: Death of a Salesman

Eugene O’Neill: Long Day’s Journey into Night

Tenessee Williams: A Streetcar Named Desire

Novels

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders

Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels

Samuel Richardson: Pamela

Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews

Laurence Sterne: The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman

Jane Austen: Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice

Sir Walter Scott: Ivanhoe

Maria Edgeworth: Castle Rackrent

Charles Dickens: A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens: Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens: Great Expectations

William Makepeace Thackeray: Vanity Fair

Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte: WutheringHeights

George Eliot: Midddlemarch

Thomas Hardy: Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy: Jude the Obscure

Robert Louis Stevenson: Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson: The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Rudyard Kipling: Kim

Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady

Henry James: The Ambassadors

E. M. Forster: A Passage to India

E. M. Forster: Where Angels Fear to Tread

E. M. Forster: A Room with a View

Joseph Conrad: Heart of Darkness

Joseph Conrad: Nostromo

James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf: Orlando

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf: The Waves

H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers

D. H. Lawrence: Women in Love

H. G. Wells: The Time Machine

H. G. Wells: Tono-Bungay

Arnold Bennett: The Old Wives’ Tale

Evelyn Waugh: Brideshead Revisited

Kingsley Amis: Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis: The Alteration

Kingsley Amis: The Old Devils

Alan Sillitoe: Saturday Night and Sunday Morning

John Braine: Room at the Top

John Braine: Life at the Top

John Wain: Hurry on Down

Aldous Huxley: Brave New World

George Orwell: Nineteen-Eighty-Four

George Orwell: Animal Farm

Samuel Beckett: Molloy

Samuel Beckett: Malone dies

Samuel Beckett: The Unnamable

Lawrence Durrell: Justine

Lawrence Durrell: Balthazar

Lawrence Durrell: Mountolive

John Fowles: The French Lieutenant’s Woman

John Fowles: The Collector

Doris Lessing: The Grass is Singing

William Golding: Rites of Passage

William Golding: Close Quarters

William Golding: Fire Down Below

William Golding: The Spire

David Lodge: Small World

Malcolm Bradbury: The History Man

B.S. Johnson: The Unfortunates

Kazuo Ishiguro: A Pale view of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro: When We Were Orphans

Salman Rushdie: Midnight’s Children

Salman Rushdie: Shame

John Banville: Kepler

John Banville: Birchwood

John Banville: Doctor Copernicus

John Banville: Eclipse

John McGahern: Amongst Women

Colm Tóibín: The South

Colm Tóibín: The Heather Blazing

Colm Tóibín: The Story of the Night

Colm Tóibín: The Blackwater Lightship

Roddy Doyle: The Commitments

Roddy Doyle: A Star Called Henry

Roddy Doyle:Oh Play that Thing

Roddy Doyle:The Dead Republic

Roddy Doyle: Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha

Roddy Doyle: The Woman Who Walked into Doors

Roddy Doyle: The Van

Nathaniel Hawthorne: The Scarlet Letter

Hermann Melville: Moby Dick

Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Ernest Hemingway: A Farewell to Arms

Jack Kerouac: On the Road

J. D. Salinger: The Catcher in the Rye

F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby

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