2011 Reading Schedule

We are still reading through the Renaissance, focusing now on the latter portion of the 16th century.  Continuing on through the 16th and into the 17-18th centuries, we will focus on the following literature, philosophy, religion, and poetry:

• Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes (1547-1616)
• The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
• Essays by Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
• Doctor Faustus by Christoper Marlowe (1564-1593)
• William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
• Sermons by John Donne (1572-1631)
• Paradise Lost by John Milton (1608-1674)
• The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan (1628-1688)
• Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
• Essays by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Book links, backgound information, study notes, and other important information will be posted as soon as we finish up Sir Thomas More's, Utopia.