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Mar 15, 1000
Beowulf
Epic Poem, Sui Generis (of its own genre)
Required
*Generally dated between the 8th century and eary 11th century. -
Mar 15, 1380
Troilus and Criseyde
Poetry, Courtly or Chivalric Romance
Optional
*Troilus and Criseyde was most likely completely around the mid-1380s. -
Mar 15, 1380
The Canterbury Tales
Poetry, Frame Narrative, Social Commentary, Satire
Required
*A specific publication date is not applicable since it is believed to be unfinished. William Caxton's first version created from the now-lost manuscript was printed in 1478. -
Mar 15, 1390
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Alliterative Romance, Chicalric Romance, Adventure.
Required
*Believed to have been written around the late 14th century. -
Mar 15, 1390
Pearl
Dream Vision, Allegory
Required
*Believed to have been written around the late 14th century. -
Mar 15, 1580
Sir Philip Sidney
Sonnet sequence (Petrarchan) and essay.
Required
*Sir Philip Sidney was born November 30, 1554 and died October 17, 1586. -
Titus Andronicus
Tragedy
Optional
*Believed to have been written around 1588-1593. -
The Speeches of Queen Elizabeth I
Speeches (Political)
Required
*The Speech to the Troops at Tilbury was delivered August 19, 1588, and The Golden Speech was delivered November 30, 1601. -
The Jew of Malta
Tragedy
Optional
*It was most likely writen in 1589 or 1590. -
The Faerie Queene
Epic Poem
Required
*The poem is actualy incomplete as Spenser dies before he could finish it. The first half was published in 1590, while the second half was published in 1596. -
Henry IV Part, II
History
Optional
*Believed to have been written between 1596 and 1599. -
Henry IV, Part I
History
Required
*Believed to have been written no later than 1597. -
Hamlet
Tragedy
Required
*Believed to have been written between 1599 and 1601. -
Twelfth Night
Comedy
Optional
*Believed to have been written around 1601-1602. -
Doctor Faustus
Tragedy
Optional
*Published 11 years after Marlowe's death. -
The Tempest
Romance
Required
*Belived to have been written around 1610-1611. -
John Donne
Satire, Love Poetry, Elegies, Sermons
Required
*Donne was born 21 January 1572 and died 31 March 1631 -
The Blazing World
Satire, Romance, Adventure, Autibiography, Science Fiction, and Utopian Fiction
Required
*Although it was published in 1666, an exact date could not be found. -
Paradise Lost
Epic poem in blank verse. Theodicy.
Required
*While Paradise Lost was published in 1667, a specific day and month could not be found. -
John Milton
Poetry
Required
*The required poetry ranges from 1629 to 1671. -
The Rover
Play, Restoration Comedy
Required
*Although it was published in 1688, an exact date could not be found. -
Oroonoko
Prose Fiction, Restoration Narrative
Required
*Although it was published in 1688, an exact date could not be found. -
Gulliver's Travels
Satire that uses Fantasy
Optional
*Although it was published in 1726, an exact date could not be found. -
Alexander Pope
Satirical Verse, also famous for the Heroic Couplet
Required
*The works required on the list were written somewhere between 1711 and 1735. -
Tom Jones
Social Commentary, Satire, Bildungsroman
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Phillis Wheatley
Includes African American poetry with themes of Christianity and classicism.
Required
*Whetaley wrote the majority of her work between 1771 and 1774. -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano
Slave Narrative
Required
*Although it was published in 1789, an exact date could not be found. -
Pride and Prejudice
Comedy of Manners
Optional -
Frankenstein
Horror, Gothic, Romance, Science Fiction
Optional
*Although it was published in 1688, an exact date could not be found. -
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave
Includes Slave Narrative, Memoir, and Bildungsroman.
Required
*While this work was published in 1845, a specific day and month could not be found. -
William Wordsworth
Romantic Age Poetry
Required
*1850 is when The Prelude was written. -
Sojourner Truth
Feminist and Abolitionist Speech
Required
*The Ain't I a Woman speech was delivered at the Women's Convention in Akron, Ohio. -
Moby Dick or The Whale
American Romanticism, Adventure
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Bleak House
Satire, Romance, Melodrama, Social Criticism,Satire, Detective Fiction
Optional
*Published in twenty monthly installments between March 1852 and September 1853 -
Frances E.W. Harper
Includes Feminism and poems about slavery.
Required
*Harper was born September 24, 1825 and died February 22, 1911. -
Walt Whitman
Includes poetry that closely resembles prose and humanism.
Required
*While Leaves of Grass was published in 1855, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl
Includes Slave Narrative, Coming of Age, and Feminist Literature.
Required
*While the work was published in 1861, portions were published in serial form before then. -
Middlemarch
Panoramic, Realism, Social Commentary
Required
*published in eight parts over two-month intervals from December 1871 through December 1872 with the last two parts appearing in two successive months. -
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Satire, Adventure
Required
*While Huckleberry Finn was published in 1884, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Emily Dickinson
Includes Poetry, Transcendentalism, and a wide array of themes.
Required
*While a good amount of Dickinson's poetry was published in 1890, a specific day and month could not be found. -
The Age of Innocence
Includes Social Commentary and Satire
Optional
*While The Age of Innocence was published in 1920, a specific day and month could not be found -
T.S. Eliot
Modernist Poetry
Required
*The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was published in 1915 and The Waste Land was published in 1922. -
To The Lighthouse
Stream of Consciousness, Modernist
Required -
The Sound and the Fury
Souther Gothic
Optional
*Although it was published in 1929, an exact date could not be found. -
George Washington Gomez
Mexicotexan Novel, Coming of Age
Required
*Although it was published in 1990, Paredes wrote it in the 1940s. -
Invisible Man
Bildungsroman, Social Commentary
Required
*While Invisible Man was published in 1952, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Waiting for Godot
Theater of the Absurd, Tragicomedy
Required -
Thedore Roethke
Confesional Poetry
Required
*The Waking was published in 1953. All of the poems have various publication dates. -
Pale Fire
Includes Poetry, Comdedy, and Tragedy. Also Metafiction and Commentary.
Optional
*While Pale Fire was published in 1962, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Sylvia Plath
Confessional Poetry
Required
*Plath wrote most of her famous work between 1961-1963. -
In Cold Blood
True Crime and Non-fiction
Optional
*While In Cold Blood was published in 1966, an actual day and month could not be found. -
Flannery O'Connor
Southern Gothic, Grotesque, Realistic
Optional
*While Flannery O'Connor's Complete Short Stories was published in 1971, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Song of Solomon
Bildungsroman, part Slave Narrative
Required
*While Song of Solomon was published in 1977, a specific day and month could not be found. -
Emplumada
Chicana, Feminist, Political Poetry
Required -
Gloria Anzaldua
Chicana, Feminists, Political, Queer Theory
Required -
Cherrie Moraga
Chicanon, Feminist, Political, Queer Theory
Required
Loving in the War Years was published in 1983, The Last Generation was published in 1993. -
Breath, Eyes, Memory
Includes Haitian-American fiction, young adult literature, and gender identity.
Optional
*While Breath, Eyes, Memory was published in 1994, a specific day and month could not be found -
African American Women's Language
Linguistics, African American Women's Language
Optional -
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Reading List Timeline
This is the amount of time (approximately) covered by the UTSA M.A. English Exam.
