ENG 4420 Twentieth-Century British Literature

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Please bring a paper copy of your pdf to class on the day we are discussing it.

Blast manifesto and WWI poetry: read the poems “A Soldier,” “They,” “Dulce et Decorum Est,” “A Hospital Visitor,” and “A War Film.” “A Soldier” is by Rupert Brooke, whose name is cut off.

Mansfield, “The Daughters of the Late Colonel

Yeats and Eliot, selected poems

PG Wodehouse, “Uncle Fred Flits By

Edith Sitwell and WH Auden

Orwell, Down and Out excerpt

Sam Selvon, excerpts from The Lonely Londoners and Alan Sillitoe, “The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner”

readings for Monday, April 3rd: Two short stories and three poems: “Muriel Scaife” by Pat Barker; “By the Burn,” by James Kelman; and selections from Heaney and Boland (read “Digging,” “Punishment,” and “Anorexic” from this pdf)

Mike McCormack, opening pages of Solar Bones

For May 15th:

Linton Kwesi Johnson: “Inglan is a Bitch” recording (and as spoken word)

Jean Binta Breeze: “Wife of Bath in Brixton Market” recording (intertext: the Wife of Bath’s Prologue from Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales)

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Patience Agbabi (read just the first poem); I include as well Agbabi’s update of the Wife of Bath as a Nigerian. Please also read this Wordsworth poem to which Agbabi is referring in “London Eye”: WW Composed upon Westminster Bridge.