The Task

The List

LITERATURE (in chronological order)

Dyer—“Grongar Hill”
Duck—“The Thresher’s Labour”
Richardson—Pamela
Young—Night Thoughts
Thomson—The Seasons
Gray—Odes, etc.
Collins—Odes
Thomson—The Castle of Indolence
Cleland—Fanny Hill
Fielding—Tom Jones
Leapor—“Crumble Hall”
Dyer—The Fleece
Smart—Jubilate Agno
Sterne—Tristram Shandy
Walpole—The Castle of Otranto
Sterne—Sentimental Journey
Goldsmith—The Deserted Village
Burney—Evelina
Crabbe—The Village
Burns—poems
Smith—Elegiac Sonnets
Cowper—The Task
Smith—Emmeline
Bowles—Fourteen Sonnets
Blake—usual early stuff
Inchbald—A Simple Story
Radcliffe—Romance of the Forest
Radcliffe—Mysteries of Udolpho
Godwin—Caleb Williams
Coleridge—poems
Blake—usual middle period stuff
Bage—Hermsprong
Robinson—Sappho & Phaon
Wordsworth & Coleridge—Lyrical Ballads
Bloomfield—The Farmer’s Boy
Edgeworth—Castle Rackrent
Smith—Letters of a Solitary Wanderer
W. Wordsworth—Prelude
W. Wordsworth —Poems
Austen—6 novels + Sandition & juv
Hemans—poems
Byron—Childe Harold
Burney—The Wanderer
Scott—Waverley
Byron—“Darkness”
P. Shelley—“Mont Blanc”
M. Shelley—Frankenstein
Peackock—Nightmare Abbey
L.E.L—poems
Keats—odes
P. Shelley—“Julian and Maddalo”
Scott—Ivanhoe
Beddoes—poems
Clare—Poems Descriptive
Clare—Village Minstrel
Sara Coleridge—poems
Hogg—Memoirs & Confessions
M. Shelley—The Last Man
Clare—Shepherd’s Calendar
Beddoes—Death’s Jest-Book
Peacock—Crotchet Castle
Clare—The Rural Muse
Clare—asylum poetry

LANDSCAPE, AGRICULTURE, TOURS, MAPS, MISC.

Defoe—Tour thro’…Great Britain
Walpole—Modern Taste in Gardening
Gilpin—Essay on Prints
Gilpin—various Tours
Marshall—Planting & Ornamental Gardening
White—Selborne
Cary—Survey of High Roads from London
Gilpin—Three Essays
Board’s General Views (~5-10)
Knight—The Landscape
Price—Essay on the Picturesque
Marshall—Review of the Landscape
D. Wordsworth—journal
The New Bath Guide
U. Price—A Dialogue
D. Wordsworth —Tour in Scotland
Langdale—Topographical Dict. Yorkshire
WW—Guide to the Lakes
Repton—Fragments
Clare—natural history & journals
Kent—Flora Domestica
Cobbett—The Woodlands
Knapp—Journal of a Naturalist
Cobbett—Rural Rides

THEORY/PHILOSOPHY/CRITICISM

Locke—Essay
Berkeley—New Theory of Vision
Berkeley—Treatise
Hume—Treatise
 Vico—New Science
Hume—Enquiry
Burke—Philosophical Inquiry
Hume—“Of the Standard of Taste”
Young—Conjectures on Original Comp
Kames—Elements of Criticism
Rousseau—Emile
Reynolds—Discourses on Art
Goethe—“The Experiment…”
Kant—Critique of Pure Reason
Rousseau—Confessions
Burke—Reflections
Kant—Critique of Judgment
Schiller—Aesthetic Education
De Sade—Philosophy in the Bedroom
Knight—Analytical Inquiry
Hegel—Phenomenology of Spirit
Goethe—Theory of Colors
Combe—Dr. Syntax
STC—Biographia
Hazlitt—Lectures on the E. Poets
Hazlitt—Table Talk
Lamb—Essays of Elia
Westminster Review
Hazlitt—The Spirit of the Age
Jewsbury—Phantasmagoria
The Art Journal
Ruskin—Modern Painters I-III
Ruskin—The Stones of Venice

20TH AND 21ST CENTURY THEORY/PHILOSOPHY/CRITICISM

Wittgenstein—Tractatus
Husserl—Cartesian Meditations
Merleau-Ponty—Phenomenology of Perception
Auerbach—Mimesis
Williams—Culture and Society
M. Price—“The Picturesque Moment”
Foucault—The Order of Things
Foucault—Archaeology of Knowledge
Bloom, et. al—Romanticism and Consciousness
Duckworth—The Improvement of the Estate
Barrell—Idea of Landscape and Sense of Place
Williams—The Country and the City
De Certeau—The Practice of Everyday Life
Helsinger—Ruskin and the Art of the Beholder
McGann—Romantic Ideology
Barrell—An Equal Wide Survey
Chandler—Wordsworth’s Second Nature
De Man—Rhetoric of Romanticism
Barrell—Political Theory of Painting
Levinson—Wordsworth’s Great Period Poems
Bewell—Wordsworth and the Enlightenment
Ferguson—Solitude and the Sublime
Helsinger—Rural Scenes and Natural Representation
Casey—Representing Place
Galperin—The Historical Austen
Wall—The Prose of Things
Morton—Ecology without Nature
Francois—Open Secrets