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Paradise Lost in Leeds
I am way behind on the account of life as an English undergraduate fifty years ago, so much so that it’s really fifty-two years ago now. Anyway, here’s the latest instalment. On Scheme C, we were obliged in our second year to take a course on Milton. The reading list was uncompromising. Here it is:…
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Touring through the eighteenth century
Back in the second year at Leeds, we had some choices about which courses we followed on our scheme. I’m not sure if Special Period was a compulsory or an elective, but it’s one I enjoyed immensely. The course was, I think, the only one we did that was defined not by genre or author…
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Novel Discoveries
Our novel course in 1974-5 took us from the early seventeenth century to the early nineteenth. Six substantial texts were prescribed, and a good many others recommended. Here’s our reading list from that year. I think I read most of the novels listed here. All of the key texts, of course, and quite a few…