A Love Through the Ages Reading List
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A Love through the Ages Reading List: POETRY: 14 th Century The Middle Ages: Chaucer – The Miller’s Tale – parody of Courtly and Chivalric love The Knight’s Tale – Courtly, Chivalric Love The Wife of Bath’s Tale 15 th Century: Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur 16 th Century , The Renaissance (1509 – 47) and The Elizabethans (1558 – 1603): Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 42) Greatly influenced by Petrarch – lots of sonnets Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -86) “Astrophil and Stella” sonnets (read a couple) Edmund Spenser (1552 – 91) “The Faerie Queene” (just read a bit of this… unless you like it of course, then knock yourselves out.) Shakespeare (1565 – 1616) Sonnets – “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun” and “The expense of spirit in a waste of Shame” 16 th and 17 th Century – Jacobean (1603 – 25) The Metaphysicals: John Donne (1572 – 1631) “ The Flea”, “The Sunne Rising” Andrew Marvel (1621 – 78) “To His Coy Mistress” 17 th Century John Milton (1608 – 74) (I’ll find you some extracts from “Paradise Lost”. You don’t have to read it all) 18 th Century – The Augustans: Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) “The Rape of the Lock 18 th Century – The Romantics: William Blake (1757 – 1827) “Songs of Innocence and Experience” Read a couple of each.
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A Love through the Ages Reading List:
POETRY:14th Century The Middle Ages:
Chaucer – The Miller’s Tale – parody of Courtly and Chivalric love
The Knight’s Tale – Courtly, Chivalric LoveThe Wife of Bath’s Tale
15th Century: Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur
16th Century , The Renaissance (1509 – 47) and The Elizabethans (1558 – 1603):
Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503 – 42) Greatly influenced by Petrarch – lots of sonnets
Sir Philip Sidney (1554 -86) “Astrophil and Stella” sonnets (read a couple)
Edmund Spenser (1552 – 91) “The Faerie Queene” (just read a bit of this… unless you like it of course, then knock yourselves out.)
Shakespeare (1565 – 1616) Sonnets – “My Mistress’ Eyes are nothing like the sun” and “The expense of spirit in a waste of Shame”
16th and 17th Century – Jacobean (1603 – 25)The Metaphysicals:
John Donne (1572 – 1631) “ The Flea”, “The Sunne Rising” Andrew Marvel (1621 – 78) “To His Coy Mistress”
17th Century John Milton (1608 – 74) (I’ll find you some extracts from
“Paradise Lost”. You don’t have to read it all)
18th Century – The Augustans: Alexander Pope (1688 – 1744) “The Rape of the Lock
18th Century – The Romantics: William Blake (1757 – 1827) “Songs of Innocence and
Experience” Read a couple of each. William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) “The Lucy Poems” Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1776 – 1849) “Frost at Midnight” John Keats (1795 – 1821) “La Belle Dame sans Merci” George, Gordon, Lord Byron (1788 – 1824) “Don Juan” was his
great work, but if you’d like a shorter version, try “Beppo”. (Hilarious)
19th Century – The Victorians (1837 – 1901) Christina Rossetti (1831 – 94) “A Birthday”, “Remember”
Emily Dickinson (1830 – 86) “My Life Closed Twice”, “Love’s Stricken Way”
Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 – 92) “Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal”
William Butler Yeats (1865 – 1939) “When you are old and grey and full of sleep” “Prayer for my daughter”
Thomas Hardy (1840 – 1928) “The Voice” ( written after the death of his wife)
20th Century – The EdwardiansWar Poems:Wilfred OwenVera Brittain
20th Century – Modernism (1910 – 52) TS Eliot (1888 – 1965) “The Love Song of Alfred J Prufrock” –
sad, sad, sad. A man who has not dared to love, not dared to be that vulnerable.
WH Auden (1907 – 1973)
20th Century – Post Modernism (1952 - ) Ted Hughes (1930 – 1998) Sylvia Plath (1932 – 63) Philip Larkin 1922 – 1985) Wendy Cope (1945 -) Jackie Kaye (1961 - ) Pablo Neruda “Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair”
