Pensum, obligatorisk lesning
William Shakespeare: As You Like It,
Tom Stoppard: Arcadia,
Tekster fra Kompendium 'ENG4322 Aspects of Arcadia:Versions of Pastoral, Spencer to Stoppard' (fra Unipub forlag, kjøpes i Kopiutsdalget, Akademika).
- Theocritus, from Idylls, transl. Robert Wells (1, 3, 5, 7)
- Virgil, from Eclogues, transl. John Dryden (1, 3, 4, 5, 9)
- Sir Philip Sidney, 'Disprayse of a Courtly Life'
- Edmund Spenser, from The Shepheardes Calender ('April', 'June'), Astrophel
- John Milton, 'Lycidas'
- Robert Herrick, 'A Pastoral upon the Birth of Prince Charles', 'The Hock-Cart'
- John Gay, from The Shepherd's Week (Proem, Prologue, 'Monday; or, The Squabble', 'Tuesday, or, The Ditty', 'Friday; or, The Dirge')
- Lady Mary Wortley Montague, from Eclogues ('Saturday. The Small-Pox.')
- Oliver Goldsmith, The Deserted Village
- William Wordsworth, 'Michael: A Pastoral', The Prelude, VIII
- John Clare, 'The Mores', 'The Flitting'
- A. E. Housman, from A Shropshire Lad (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 19, 26, 27, 28, 31, 35, 37, 40, 41, 42, 43, 47, 50, 51, 52, 55, 61, 62, 63)
- Ted Hughes, from Moortown ('Rain', 'Couples under cover', 'Last night', 'February 17th', 'Birth of Rainbow', 'A monument', 'A memory', 'The day he died, 'Now you have to push', 'Hands')
- Tony Harrison, , 'Cremation Eclogue' (London Review of Books, 11 Sept. 2003, p. 16)
- Ken Smith, from Wild Root ('Hutzul')
- Seamus Heaney, from Electric Light ('Bann Valley Eclogue', 'Glanmore Eclogue', and 'Virgil, Eclogue IX')
- Wendy Cope, 'Pastoral'
Tillegg til 15 studiepoeng-kurs
William Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale, Act IV (resten av stykket leses kursorisk).
Tekster fra Kompendium 'ENG4322 Aspects of Arcadia:Versions of Pastoral, Spencer to Stoppard' (fra Unipub forlag, kjøpes i Kopiutsdalget, Akademika).
- Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, VI, ix
- John Milton, 'L'Allegro'
- Andrew Marvell, 'A Dialogue between Thyrsis and Dorinda', 'The Mower against Gardens', 'Damon the Mower', 'Ametas and Thestylis Making Hay-Ropes', 'The Garden'
- Alexander Pope, from Pastorals ('Spring. The First Pastoral, or Damon')
- Ambrose Philips, from Pastorals ('The Second Pastoral')
- Thomas Gray, Elegy in a Country Courtyard
- Matthew Arnold, Thyrsis
- Louis Macniece, 'An Eclogue for Christmas'
- Robert Frost, 'Build Soil! - A Political Pastoral'