Classics of British Literature

These 48 fascinating lectures in Classics of British Literature by Professor John Sutherland, the Lord Northcliffe Professor Emeritus of Modern English at University College London, provide you with a rare opportunity to step beyond the surface of Britain’s grand literary masterpieces and experience the times and conditions they came from and the diverse issues with which their writers grappled.
These lectures are from The Great Courses

1. Anglo-Saxon Roots – Pessimism and Comradeship

2. Chaucer – Social Diveristy

3. Chaucer – A Man of Unusual Cultivation

4. Spencer – The Faerie Queene

5. Early Drama – Low Comedy and Religion

6. Marlowe – Controversy and Danger

7-Shakespeare-the-Man-The-Road-to-the-Globe

8-Shakespeare-The-Mature-Years

9-Shakespeares-Rivals-Jonson-and-Webster.

10-The-King-James-Bible-English-Most-Elegant.

11-The-Metaphysicals-Conceptual-Daring

12-Paradise-Lost-A-New-Language-for-Poetry.

13-Turmoil-Makes-for-Good-Literature.

14-The-Augustans-Order-Decorum-and-Wit.

15-Swift-Anger-and-Satire.

16-Johnson-Bringing-Order-to-the-Language.

17-Defoe-Crusoe-and-the-Rise-of-Capitalism.

18-Behn-Emancipation-in-the-Restoration

19-The-Golden-Age-of-Fiction.

20-Gibbon-Window-into-18th-Century-England.

21-Equiano-The-Inhumanity-of-Slavery.

22-Women-Poets-The-Minor-Voice.

23-Wollstonecraft-First-of-a-New-Genus.

24-Blake-Mythic-Universes-and-Poetry.

25-Scott-and-Burns-The-Voices-of-Scotland.

26-Lyrical-Ballads-Collaborative-Creation.