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the Course
In this year-course we will read the works of major authors in the twentieth century English literature. Please read skillfully and let the words and images form impression in your minds, not force meaning out of them. In your reading, you might try to assume the mood that Woolf describes in The Mark on the Wall: "I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts" (2. 1989). If you have the similar mood you will be very happy in the class in which we will cover poetry, fiction and drama. For example, Poetry: the poetry of World War I and II, Yeats, Eliot, Smith, Graves, Auden, Larkin, Hughes and Heaney. Fiction: Lawrence, Forster, Woolf, Greene, Lessing and Fowles. Drama: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, Shaffer and
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