The Department of English

Doctor of Philosophy

RENAISSANCE/EARLY MODERN ENGLISH READING LIST

I. Poetry

Sir Thomas Wyatt
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey
Isabella Whitney
Sir Walter Raleigh
Sir Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Thomas Campion
Mary (Sidney) Herbert, Countess of Pembroke
Aemilia Lanyer
John Donne
Ben Jonson
Robert Herrick
George Herbert
Thomas Carew
Sir John Suckling
Richard Crashaw
Richard Lovelace
Andrew Marvell
Henry Vaughan
Thomas Traherne
John Milton

II. Drama

Thomas Kyd
Christopher Marlowe
William Shakespeare
Ben Jonson
John Webster
Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher
Thomas Middleton

III. Prose

Sir Thomas More
Baldassare Castiglione
John Lyly
Sir Philip Sidney
Sir Francis Bacon
The Bible, Authorized Version
John Donne
John Milton
Sir Thomas Browne

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