20th

 Fiction

 

Joseph Conrad

–       Heart of Darkness (1899)

–       Lord Jim (1900)

–       “The Secret Sharer” (1910)

–       Under Western Eyes (1911)

 

E.M. Forster

–       Howard’s End (1910)

–       A Passage to India (1924)

H.G. Wells

–       The Island of Dr. Moreau

 

D.H. Lawrence

–       The Rainbow (1915)

–       Women in Love (1921)

 

James Joyce

–       Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (1914-5)

–       Dubliners (1914)

–       Ulysses (1922)

 

Wyndham Lewis

–       Tarr (1918)

 

Ford Maddox Ford

–       The Good Soldier (1915)

 

David Jones

–       In Parenthesis

 

E.E. Cummings

–       The Enormous Room

 

Virginia Woolf

–       Jacob’s Room (1922)

–       Mrs. Dalloway (1925)

–       To the Lighthouse (1927)

–       The Waves (1931)

 

Malcolm Lowry

–       Under the Volcano

 

Aldous Huxley

–       Brave New World

 

Evelyn Waugh

–       Brideshead Revisited

 

Samuel Beckett

–       Murphy (1938)

–       Malone Dies (1951)

–       Watt (1953)

 

Graham Greene

–       The End of the Affair

 

Kingsley Amis

–       Lucky Jim

 

Jean Rhys

–       Wide Sargasso Sea

 

Muriel Spark

–       The Driver’s Seat

 

V.S. Naipaul

–       A Way in the World

 

Salman Rushdie

–       Midnight’s Children

 

Martin Amis

–       Money

 

Kazuo Ishiguro

–       Remains of the Day

 

Zadie Smith

–       On Beauty

 

Ian McEwan

–       Saturday

 

 

Poetry

 

Thomas Hardy

–       Darkling Thrush

–       Hap

–       Neutral Tones

 

William Butler Yeats

–       “The Song of Happy Shepherd” (1885)

–       “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” (1890)

–       “Who Goes with Fergus?” (1893)

–       “The Song of Wandering Aengus” (1899)

–       “Adam’s Curse” (1902)

–       “No Second Troy” (1908)

–       “September 1913” (1913)

–       “A Coat” (1914)

–       “Easter 1916” (1916)

–       “The Second Coming” (1921)

–       “Leda and the Swan” (1923)

–       “Nineteen Hundreed and Nineteen” (1928)

–       “Sailing to Byzantium” (1926)

–       “Among School Children” (1926)

–       “A Dialogue of Self and Soul” (1929)

–       “Crazy Jane and the Bishop” (1931)

–       “Crazy Jane on the Day of Judgment” (1931)

–       “Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop” (1931)

–       “Crazy Jane Grows Old Looks at the Dancers” (1931)

–       “Lapis Lazuli” (1938)

–       “Man and Echo” (1939)

–       “Under Ben Bulben” (1938)

–       “The Circus Animals’ Desertion” (1939)

 

World War I Poets

–       Siegfried Sassoon

• A Working Party
• Glory of Women

–       Wilfred Owen

• Dulce et Decorum Est
• 1914

–       Edward Blunden

• 1916 seen from 1921

–       Edward Thomas

• As the Team’s head Brass

 

Mina Loy

–       Anglo Mongrels and the Rose

 

Ezra Pound

–       “Hugh Selwyn Mauberly”

 

T.S. Eliot

–       “Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”

–       “Portrait of a Lady”

–       “Preludes”

–       “Gerontion”

–       “Ash-Wednesday”

–       The Waste Land (1922)

–       The Four Quartets (1944)

 

Philip Larkin

–       “Church Going” (1954)

–       MCMXIV (1960)

–       “Talking in Bed” (1960)

–       “Ambulances” (1961)

–       “High Windows” (1970)

–       “This Be the Verse” (1974)

–       “Aubade” (1977)

 

Ted Hughes

–       The Hawk in the Rain

–       Crow Blacker Than Ever

–       Crow Sickened

 

Seamus Heany

–       Digging

–       Mid-Term Break

–       Death of a Naturalist

 

Drama

 

G.B. Shaw

–       Pygmalion

 

Synge

–       Playboy of the Western World

 

Samuel Beckett

–       Endgame (1958)

–       Waiting for Godot (1954)

 

Harold Pinter

–       The Birthday Party

 

 

Non-fiction

 

Joseph Conrad

–       Preface to Nigger of Narcissus (1897)

 

W.B. Yeats

–       “Magic”

 

T.E. Hulme

–       “Romanticism and Classicism”
Ford Maddox Ford

–       “On Impressionism” (c. 1908)

–       “Modern poetry” (c. 1909)

–       “The passing of the great figure” (c. 1909)

 

Ezra Pound

–       “The Serious Artist” (1913)

–       Gaudier-Breszka

 

Virginia Woolf

–       “Mr. Bennet and Mrs. Brown”

–       “Modern Fiction”

–       A Room of One’s Own

–       Three Guineas

 

Wyndham Lewis

–       Blast (1914)

–       Time and Western Man (1926)

 

T.S. Eliot

–       “Tradition and Individual Talent”

–       “Ulysses”

–       “The Metaphysical Poets”

–       “Hamlet”

 

E.M. Forster

–       Aspects of the Novel

 

I.A Richards

–       Practical Criticism

 

William Empson

–       Seven Types of Ambiguity

–       Some Versions of Pastoral