"The whole art of teaching is only the art of awakening the natural curiosity of young minds for the purpose of satisfying it afterwards." -- Anatole France

Overview of "Sophomore Survey" Courses

Everyone is required to take a literature class as a general education requirement. They are not the easiest classes, so you might as well take something you are going to enjoy. The following is a list of some of the authors and stories you will learn about in the different literature surveys.

English Literature

ENGL 331 – English Literature through 1660

• Beowulf
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
• Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
• Malory: Utopia
• Malory: Dr. Faustus
• William Shakespeare: Macbeth
• John Donne: various works
• John Milton: Paradise Lost

ENGL 332 – English Literature 1669-1830 

• Samuel Pepys: The Diary
• Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
• Alexander Pope: "The Rape of the Lock"
• William Blake: Songs of Innocence& Songs of Experience
• William Wordsworth: "Tintern Abbey," "Intimations of Immortality," "Michael"
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge: "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• Lord Byron: Don Juan
• John Keats: "The Eve of St. Agnes," "La Belle Dame Sans Merci." "Ode on a Grecian Urn," "To Autumn"

ENGL 333 – English Literature since 1830

• Elizabeth Barrett Browning: Aurora Leigh
• Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam
• Robert Browning: "My Last Duchess," "Fra Lippo Lippi"
• Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Ernest
• Thomas Hardy: "Neutral Tones," "Nobody Comes"
• T.S. Eliot: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock"
• D. H. Lawrence: "The Horse Dealer’s Daughter"
• Samuel Beckett: Endgame

American Literature

ENGL 334 - American Literature through 1865

• Washington Irving: "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow"
• Ralph Waldo Emerson: "Self-Reliance"
• Henry David Thoreau: Walden Pond
• Edgar Allen Poe: various works
• Nathaniel Hawthorne: various works
• Herman Melville: Moby Dick
• Harriet Beecher Stowe: Uncle Tom’s Cabin

ENGL 335 – American Literature since 1865

• Walt Whitman: Leaves of Grass
• Emily Dickinson: various works
• Mark Twain: Huck Finn
• Katherine Porter: "The Jilting of Granny Weatherall"
• Ernest Hemingway: "Soldier’s Home"
• John Steinbeck: "The Leader of the People"
• Carl Sandburg: "Chicago"
• Eudora Welty: "Why I live at the P.O."
• Flannery O’Connor: "Everything That Rises Must Converge"