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A Refaat Alareer Reading List [1]

['Eric Becker', 'Words Without Borders', 'Najwan Darwish']

Date: 2024-01-19

Refaat Alareer, former student Nadya Siyam notes, “generally loved Shakespeare and John Donne.” He frequently taught introductory courses on English literature, Shakespeare, Victorian literature, and poetry. Below, readers will find some of the works he returned to often.

Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello

by William Shakespeare

The fiction of Virginia Woolf

and Aphra Behn

Gulliver’s Travels

by Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

by Jonathan Swift

Tristam Shandy

by Laurence Sterne

Frankenstein

by Mary Shelley

A Room of One’s Own

by Virginia Woolf

Orientalism

by Edward Said

In Jerusalem

by Tamim Al-Barghouti

“A Wreath”

by George Herbert

“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”

by Christopher Marlowe

“Paradise Lost”

by John Milton

“Ozymandias”

by Percy Bysshe Shelley

“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”

by William Wordsworth

“Kubla Khan”

by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

“How Do I Love Thee”

by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

“Dover Beach”

by Matthew Arnold

“The Wasteland”

by T.S. Eliot by T.S. Eliot

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