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First Year Essays

The poetry of Edward Thomas and Transience

Fidelity in the 'penelope' chapter of ulysses

The trapped society and Dubliners

Conrad and 'material interest' in Nostromo

Conrad's narration and civilisation in Heart of Darkness and The Secret Agent

The Waste Land disorder and unity

Time and variation in The Four Quartets

Narrative direction in Beowulf

The Battle of Maldon has been described with great variety. Consider the descriptions

Discuss the role of the cross in 'The Dream of the Rood'

'a broken man speaking' Pound. Is this an adequate description of The Wanderer?

The influence of sexuality in the poetry of Algernon Swinburne

Dickens and the Divided Self in reference to Great Expectations and Oliver Twist

Narrative Structure in Bleak House

Denial in the poetry of Christina Rossetti

What is interesting about the way Emily Bronte explores relationships
in Wuthering Heights?

Humanist Realism in Middlemarch

What's interesting about the way in which George Eliot explores 'the past'
in The Mill on the Floss and Silas Marner?

The influence of Catholicism in the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins

 

Second Year Essays

What makes a good dictionary?

Discuss genre in the light of a Pope quotation

A literary language comparison between speeches by Elizabeth I and Churchill

Commentary on the different use of language in a modern novel and a blog

Is there such a thing as literary language?

Is standard english a social bank?

Why is the definition of standard english so controversial?

Moral questions and certainties in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

'Pearl is an apocalypse - a relevation or unveiling' Discuss

Do Chaucer's early poems have anything in common other than being early?

In the Canterbury Tales the devil has all the best tunes. Discuss

Is Troilus and Criseyde a 'tragedye'?

'A satire on human contentiousness' How much more is there to The Owl
and the Nightingale

'Piers Plowman is essentially a record of confrontations' Discuss

'The moralist and dramatist in Jonson are constantly at odds' Do you agree?

Examine the Elizabethan fascination with crime

Consider the nature of the tragedies of the 1580s and 1590s

'The rebelliousness of the young Donne is tamed in the writings of the divine' Discuss

Should the early Milton be read theologically or politically?

Sexual politics in the sonnet sequences of Spenser and Sidney

To what extent is Marvel's verse 'betwixt Jest and Earnest'?

Is Defoe an ironist?

'An intense re-evaluation of heroic behaviour is central to the Miltonic argument.' Discuss

'Paradise Lost is as marked by the present as the classical, by revolutionary
politics as theology' Discuss

Describe the success of Rochester's and Pope's satires

Discuss the social and aesthetic qualities of Keats' work

Examine the oddity and popularity of Sterne's fiction

'Hail muse, et cetera' Write on Byron in the light of this quotation

Is there a system behind Blake's work?

Third Year Essays

The Artificial in Julius Caesar and Midsummer Night's Dream

In what ways is Shakespeare's comedy festive?

Is the march of history more important than the individual in the first tetralogy?

Do Shakespeare's late plays defy categorization?

Discuss the use of comedy in tragedy in reference to Hamlet and Macbeth

Chaucer and his relationship to literary authority

The role of the imagination in early Wordsworth and Coleridge

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