English Classics

[Anonymous No.18647234]

ESL here, What all books do I need to read to study English literature?

[Anonymous No.18647503]

>>18647234

[Anonymous No.18647548]

>>18647234
You need to read something by
Chaucer
Spenser
Shakespeare
Marlowe
Milton
Donne
Herbert
Johnson
Dryden
Pope
Defoe
Swift
Keats
Shelley
Blake
Byron
Wordsworth
Coleridge
Carlyle
Eliot
Austen
Emily bronte
Hardy
Dickens
Joyce(potato)
Beckett(potato)
Woolf

And some amerilels if you want:
Melville
Emerson
Thoreau
Hawthorne
James
Pound
Eliot
Fitzgerald
Wolfe

Or just read the king James bible and 4chan posts, all other styles are contained therein

[Anonymous No.18647846]

>>18647548
Thanks. In that order? Or does /lit/ have a chart on where to begin?

[Anonymous No.18647852]

[Anonymous No.18648168]

before you start to read classics, learn to pick up on irony and sarcasm in text, Mr Pajeet.

[Anonymous No.18648310]

>>18647234
Shakespeare.

[Anonymous No.18648811]

>>18647852
This can't be real?

[Anonymous No.18648850]

>>18647234
Textbook, anon. Get one. I got an old edition of r The Norton Introductiont to Literature on abebooks for $4. Which is probably an ok price to you.

[Anonymous No.18649484]

>>18648850
Not op, but any idea on how the new and old ones differ? How has the textbook helped you as an ESL?
There's a fourth edition that I can buy online in my country, for about $35. Should I grab it or just read from a 13th edition pdf? Thanks in advance anon.

[Anonymous No.18650129]

>>18648310
Really? You can just directly start with Shakespeare?

[Anonymous No.18650222]

>>18649484
Got the ninth edition and it seemed similar to the 13th edition, again the 13th edition is probably better than the old one. Haven't got really far into it yet, but considering that I read the first chapter of the 13th and the point I'm in the 9th, it is probably significant. Still it is better than nothing, anon. Just saying, I bought this one because the pdf doesn't work nicely with a kindle and I got this edition for $4 on abebooks ($13 considering the shipping costs). You could check this edition online on archive.

And considering what I gained from it, I haven't learned a lot from it, but I'm still on the first part. Considering that there are lots of texts and assignments, it is probably worth it as a native or ESL. This is probably what I would look on this edition that you might buy. Check out if there are exercises, they are usually at the end of each text. And the 13th edition definitely does a better job on explaining them (compared to the ninth). I think it is definitely worth checking out the pdf. And maybe buying the paper edition if you feel that reading the pdf is too cumbersome.

[Anonymous No.18650256]

>>18650222
And I probably have a lot to learn in the poetry and drama sections. Those are the things that I'm somewhat clueless even on my native language. But other than that, it seems to be mainly a way of analyzing literature with examples and assignments in English, I bought it because it was cheap and I'm curious about it. And I thought it would be a nice way to step up my knowledge of the English language.

[Anonymous No.18650358]

>>18650222
>>18650256
Ok thank you my friend, I will check out the pdf for now. If I like the format or find that I need this kind of book, I will buy the printed one (if they still have them for sale). I will research more on how the fourth edition differs from the latest ones. The older editions have Bain, Beaty, and Hunter as their authors/editors while the new one has Mays. Mays looks like a Karen so I might prefer the older ones, but idk.

Anyways, I hope you learn a lot from the book anon. It was probably a good purchase for the price.

[Anonymous No.18651503]

>>18647548
Where to start?

[Anonymous No.18651931]

>>18648850
Can't find it in my country. Sad. Thanks anyway.

[Anonymous No.18653187]

>>18648850
>>18651931
Is history of English literature by edward albert any good?

[Anonymous No.18653250]

>>18651931
get a .pdf

[Anonymous No.18653263]

>>18647548
Should've included Hemingway, Poe, Twain, Steinbeck, Whitman, and Faulkner. There are other greats as well, but these would be found on any list in addition to the ones you gave.

[Anonymous No.18653396]

>>18647548
>amerilels
america has as many great authors as britain, despite being far younger

lol

[Anonymous No.18653412]

>>18651503
Shakespeare or Chaucer, depending on how badu. are at english Chaucer might be impossible for al ong time.

[Anonymous No.18653424]

>>18653263
Wasn't really a serious list, I was just in an autistic list making mood. If you read something of each it would give a broad overview though.

[Anonymous No.18653435]

>>18653396
Amerilels is a term of endearment but I can't say I agree with you there m8. They don't have as many geniuses as England

[Anonymous No.18654733]

>>18653250
Will do.