English Lit book

[Joe24]

Yesterday my parents asked what exam i was doing today, so i said English Lit. So they asked what book i did, and i said Of Mice and Men. To which they said thats what book they did, and they went to school a good time ago.
So did you do that book aswell?
If not what book did you do?

 

[Maz]

How come they're only now asking what book you're reading for English Lit, on the day of the exam? Thought they might've asked sooner...

Anyway - I did my English Lit yonks ago - read The Mayor of Casterbridge (Thomas Hardy).

Also "The Crucible" - Arthur Miller.

 

[John the Monkey]

I think we did "My Family and Other Animals".

Our play was the scottish one.

 

[rich p]

I did a book about German potters called "Of Meissen Men"

Actually,

Animal Farm and Henry V

 

[Joe24]

Would of told them before Maz, but they probably forgot.

The poems i guess would be the same.
Big list of them with the only ones i remember is one called 'Sonnet 130' and 'On my Sonne'
There are a few poems in there about Psyco's aswell. Strange poems to choose i think.

 

[Haitch]

ONE BOOK! Are you really doing only one book?

In the final year for a bog standard 1970s Eng Lit O Level we had to do three Shakespeare, at least two other plays (I remember Miller, Death of a Salesman, and Shaw, Major Barbara), Nine Modern Poets, Under Milk Wood (book, radio play and movie) and five novels (Hardy, Dickens, Harper Lee, Hemingway and Orwell).

Talk about dead white men!

 

[barq]

Good luck with the exam.

I did English Lit at A level twice (long story...) with entirely different sets of books. I've missed a few and get a bit muddled because I did another load of plays for Theatre Studies (Chekhov and Brecht come to mind):

Measure for Measure
Hamlet
Mayor of Casterbridge
Pride and Prejudice
Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Waiting for Godot
Volpone

 

[Maz]

Would of have told them before Maz, but they probably forgot.

Ah fair enough - I can relate to that. Half the stuff my kids tell me goes in one ear and out the other, too.

 

[Haitch]

Sorry, Maz. What did you say?

 

[walker]

I only thought it was a film.

I never did English Lit, at least I don't think I did.

 

[Flying_Monkey]

We did:

Chaucer's Canterbury Tales (Prologue and The Kinght's Tale);
Hamlet and Macbeth;
Milton's Paradise Lost (Books 1 and 2) - beautiful;
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying - a book which still astounds me today;
Loads of early modern British poetry including John Donne and Andrew Marvell;
the poems of Emily Dickinson and Seamus Heaney's North, which again, I still love;
and more that I can't remember.

 

[Haitch]

I only thought it was a film.

If that's about Under Milkwood, it started off as a play for voices on the radio. We also had to make a bloody model of the village.

 

[mickle]

My family and other aminals here too.

 

[Dayvo]

The Mayor of Casterbridge - Thomas Hardy
Middlemarch - George Eliot
King Lear - WS
The Tempest - WS
The Nun's Priest's Tale - Geoffrey Chaucer
Hedda Gabler - Henrik Ibsen
Sons and Lovers - DH Lawrence
Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck
The Waste Land - TS Eliot
The Four Quartets - TS Eliot


and a few more, whose titles escape me.

 

[cisamcgu]

"Henry IV part one" and "Lord of the Flies"... we didn't study a set lot of poems, we just did appreciation/critisism and then had an unseen poem to work on when the exam came around .. a long time ago though