The following list will serve for the English Majors' B. A. Comprehensive Exam administered for the four academic years 2007-2008, 2008-2009, 2009-2010, 2010-2011. If you plan to take the exam after the academic year 2010-2011, you need a newer list which will be available from the English Department in Fall 2009.

• Beowulf
• Chaucer, General Prologue and Knight's Tale Wife of Bath's Prologue and Tale
• Gawain and The Green Knight
• Jonson, Bartholomew Fair
• Sidney, "Apology for Poetry"
• Shakespeare, Sonnet 54 "O how much more doth beauty beauteous seem"
• Shakespeare, Twelfth Night
• Donne, "Batter My Heart, Three-Personed God"
• Herbert, "Jordon (II)"
• Milton, Paradise Lost, Bks IV and IX
• Behn, Oroonoko
• Gay, The Beggar's Opera
• Swift, Gulliver's Travels
• Pope, "Rape of the Lock"
• Gray, "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard"
• Fielding, Joseph Andrews
• Blake, "The Lamb" & "The Tyger"
• Wordsworth, "Intimations Ode"
• Coleridge, "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
• Byron, "Manfred"
• Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind"
• Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn"
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
• Eliot, The Mill on the Floss
• Tennyson, "The Lady of Shalott"
• Browning, "Fra Lippo Lippi"
• Dickens, Great Expectations
• Rossetti, "Goblin Market"
• E.B. Browning, Aurora Leigh, Book I
• Hardy, The Return of the Native
• Hopkins, "God's Grandeur"
• Yeats, "The Second Coming"
• Joyce, "The Dead"
• Lawrence, "The Horse Dealer's Daughter"
• Mansfield, "Bliss"
• Woolf, A Room of One's Own
• Thomas, "The Force that through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower"
• Taylor, "Upon a Wasp, Chilled with Cold"
• Poe, "Fall of the House of Usher"
• Irving, "Rip Van Winkle"
• Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
• Hawthorne, "Rappacinni's Daughter"
• Melville, "Benito Cereno"
• Whitman, "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd"
• Dickinson, "My Life Had Stood a LoadedGun" #754
• Twain, Huckleberry Finn
• Crane, The Red Badge of Courage
• Wharton, The House of Mirth
• Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
• Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises
• Faulkner, "Barn Burning"
• Frost, "Design"
• Eliot, The Waste Land
• Hughes, "Theme for English B"
• Stevens, "Idea of Order at Key West"
• Ellison, Invisible Man
• Rich, "Diving into the Wreck"
• Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire
• Erdrich, Love Medicine
• Morrison, Beloved
• *Gilbert & Gubar, "Angels and Monsters" from Madwoman in the Attic
• *Said, excerpts from Orientalism
  
  *These two texts are available in hard copy from Linda McDonald in Robinson 216. Phone: 323-6672
  email: mcdonaldl@gu.gonzaga.edu