The course studies English literature through the careful analysis of significant works in the genres of poetry, fiction and drama.
The authors whose work we read are (in chronological order) William Blake (1757-1827), John Keats (1795-1821), Robert Browning (1812-1889), Christina Rossetti (1830-1894), George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950), W.B. Yeats (1865-1939), Virginia Woolf (1888-1941), Angela Carter (1940-1992) and Carol Ann Duffy (1955- ).