what does an english major read? 📚literature I have to study
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As someone who is studying psychology (love it), but felt nostalgic to study literature and decided to analyse books on my own - thank u! I literally thought two days ago "I wish Emma made another literature student video" 🥺 bit creepy, but very happy
Lol this is so cool!
I don't usually comment on social media, but I was happy to find someone who is in the same boat as me 😊 I also studied psychology, now I'm beginning my practice and last year I decided to analyse books on my own, as a hobby. Emma is helping a lot in the process - thank you, Emma!
Wow same!! Psych student who analyses books, so glad to find more of us lol 😊
it’s the love for diving deep and analyzing humans that comes in handy 🙈
Omg... I'm in the same boat as you...I loveeee Psychology but literature is like a part of my soul...the only difference is that I actually still have a choice on which subject to choose as my majors ...but I'm so confused 🥺 idk what to do lol🤧
That AD my God 🤣 also I still want to read that Frankenstein essay sometime 📚
Seems like a good list, though mine would be slightly different if I were compiling one for students. I'd definitely include Tristram Shandy and perhaps Tom Jones. There really needs to be more comedy on the list, as it's an extremely important part of the literary tradition.
📚wow! That’s a lot of reading! Just one more class! You’re almost done!
list;
1. solar bones by mike mccormack
2. the impressions of an indian childhood by zitkala-sa
3. poetry by robert frost (notably, ‘stopping by woods on a snowy evening’ and ‘the road not taken’.)
4. invisible man by ralph ellison
5. the scarlet letter by nathaniel hawthorne
6. benjamin franklin’s autobiography
7. endgame by samuel beckett (play)
8. mrs. spring fragrance by sui sin far
9. poetry by sylvia plath (notably, ‘lady lazarus’.)
10. poetry by phillis wheatley
11. collected poems of emily dickinson (notably, ‘you said that i was great’ and ‘i think i was enchanted’.)
12. howl by allen ginsberg (poem)
13. narrative of the life of frederick douglas by the aforementioned man
14. incidents in the life of a slave girl by harriet jacobs
15. king lear by shakespeare
16. the declaration of independence by thomas jefferson
17. my kinsmen, major molineux by nathaniel hawthorne
18. beloved by toni morrison
19. bartleby, the scrivener by herman melville
20. the yellow wallpaper by charlotte perkins gilman
21. civil disobedience/on the duty of civil disobedience by henry david thoreau
22. self-reliance and nature by ralph waldo emerson
23. memorial by alice oswald
24. utopia by thomas more
25. poetry by richard lovelace
26. poetry by sir thomas wyatt
27. the story of an hour by kate chopin
28. poetry by t.s. eliot (notably, ‘the love song of j. alfred prufrock’ and ‘tradition and the individual talent’
29. devotional poetry by andrew marvel
30. the book of the courtier by baldassare castiglione
31. the flaming heart by richard crashaw
32. collected poems by w.b. yeats
33. the shield of achilles by w.h. auden
34. poetry by henry howard
35. poetry by seamus heaney (studying him for junior cert :0)
35. poetry by mary sydney and sir philip sydney (notably, ‘astrophil and stella’ by the latter)
36. daisy miller by henry james (also, the turn of the screw)
37. poetry by john donne (notably, ‘a nocturnal upon st. lucy’s day’, ‘batter my heart’ and ‘forbidden morning’.)
38. works by john smith and john winthrop
39. huckleberry finn by mark twain
40. volpone by ben jonson (play)
41. the marriage of heaven and hell by william blake
42. ode to a nightingale by john keats (poem)
43. henry king (?) by anne bradstreet
44. poetry by thomas carew
45. poetry by robert harrick
46. poetry by john dunham
47. poetry by mary rowlandson
48. beowulf (epic poem)
49. frankenstein by mary shelley (‘the modern prometheus’ is a neat moniker, but i do prefer the german title)
50. paradise lost by john milton (epic poem, memetically and literally)
51. poetry by alfred tennyson and robert browning (by the latter, ‘my last duchess’.)
52. letters from an american farmer by j. hector st. john de crèvecœur
53. the faerie queene by edmund spenser (epic poem)
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Thank you so much!! 💜❤️
Thank youuu 🧡
You're a lifesaver!!
So much amazing literature! Why do you say it's the bane of your existence? I don't like the Scarlet Letter either. Haha, But I love most of the poetry you've read and of course Mark Twain and Melville.
Thank you! ❤️
Me, an English literature student watching you talking about the books you read whilst I continue to stare at the ever growing piles of books for my course I have yet to read 😩😩 but I will say you have motivated me to actually read more and just want to do more work 🤧😤
I feel that - we’ll get there!
Me, an English literature student.....grammar!!!
tempted to DIY a English degree by going through the required reading list and watch in-depth book reviews for each one (I know it wouldn’t be the same but reading with such intentionality would be so cool)
edit: if I end up doing this I’ll post details on my channel so y’all can try too
I agreeeeeee
Hahaha no but same 😭
literallyy
Do it! I've been slowly working on this, to some degree, since last year. Since I've started, I've read around 70 books, many of which classics, and it's been such an enjoyable journey. Read not for ticking off a list, but treat the list as a map through literature, and you'll definitely find your mind expanding.
Wait, can You list it all? That would be cool for us to follow! Do you mind?
I love how say you “got to / had the opportunity to read…” I find it such a small but positive spin on required reading. Like you technically had to read those books, but you make it a happy thing by saying you got to 🥺🥰📚
Loving the skit as per usual! Also random recomendations; there is a French animated movie loosely based on Phantom of the Opera called Un Monstre à Paris. There is also a Belgian-Egyptian musician called Tamino whose lyrics are beautifully written stories that make me realise that music can be literature as well, my favourite song of his is Persephone, written from Hades' point of view and it is absolutely mesmerizing!
Love from a Dutch-English literature and linguistics major in Belgium!
Love Tamino, his voice is totally mesmerizing!😍🤧 I actually found him through Persephone and I couldn't believe how beautiful the little story he created through the song was!
Love tamino and Persephone is one of the best songs to exist
I just started re-reading Frankenstein for my Victorian Horror Lit class. It has been a hot minute since I had read it, and I am looking forward to diving back into this world!
I originally sort of wanted to study English as my major, but I guess life has different plans for me. Currently I'm an Interdisciplinary Studies student and so far I'm fine with it for the most part. Wishing you all the best, Emmie. I'm sure life's going to offer you pleasant surprises.
This upload feels like Deja Vu. It was the same video title two years ago that led me to your channel. It also played an important role in deciding upon my major... Which would be literature. All thanks to you Emma, you and your channel mean a lot to me!💗🌻🌻
Took a Shakespeare course over the summer - 157 sonnets, 1 tragic poem, and 12 plays in 3 months - loved every bit of it!
I’m reading the Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson currently.
Hello Emmie as well as everybody on the comments! 😊😊 I'm also an English major although I graduated from the University of Salamanca in Spain, reading lists may differ in different universities, there are so many books and readings that we share and don't... Here in Spain I think that we read far less than you do overseas although I must admit that I was barely able to get to those readings that they assigned to us, I don't know how you manage to read so much! I must say that here we don't only study literature but we also have a lot of subjects in English language as well as linguistics, so lots of homework and assignments and studying 😅 I'm in a huuuuge reading slump since I finished my degree two years ago though, I hope I will continue reading sometime in the future.🙈 Good luck to those who want to read everything (or some things) that Emmie listed, you have lots or reading to do 📚📚
Yeah, one of the good things about being a student in a Humanities discipline, like English, or History, is the inter-disciplinary reading about (and learning about) literally everything, but the downside of that is ending up as one of those people who sound as if they want to appear they know everything. btw, I too need finally to finish Ellison's Invisible Man. For me, story is superior to meaning, but I'm a caveman.
the angst between the bookman + emma is palpable im crying
'i-- i waited for you..' CMON MAN.
Hi Emma!! I just want to say that you're one of the people who inspired me to pursue english literature in the near future!! (this school year is my last year of highschool lol)
Also quite random but I saw a norton anthology of american lit in a thrift bookstore for barely 2 dollars!! And I'm planning to skim through some to feel what might the required readings can be when I finally enter college!
Yeah, a lot of us still have our Nortons and our dreams of finally finishing one cover-to-cover. I did do an Oxford during the Pandemic, which is close but not quite the same thing. Good luck!
@@jamesduggan7200 Which Oxford one did you complete? What sort of books were in it? I only ask because I want to really knuckle down and get serious about my self-studying for literature. I'm in a bit of a slump, and having some direction would be nice.
By the way, good job! Really impressive.
@@I05-e4s IIRC it was 20th cent. American Literature. It was of course a rich mixture of poetry and prose, drama, and fiction. Some titles like The Swimmer and Death of a Salesman were familiar to me, and others were new.
@@jamesduggan7200 Thank you!!
Same here! She's inspired me a lot to pursue literature and it's my last year of highschool as well, just like you. I hope we both get to achieve our dreams.🌻
🤓🥰This is gonna be a super helpful video to so many people! I’ve gotten my Masters and am done with school, but it’s always nice to look at what other majors have to learn! 🥸 the mustache is a staple!!
Please make a video on how to study (how to take notes, how to write essays, how to prepare for exams... ) as English Language and Literature Student. 📚
Watching your videos emmie,feels like everything is happening in a correct order,lots of love from india
The skit in the beginning is why we love you. The mustache gets me every time 😂💜
Haha love the Book of the Month skits!
as a fellow english major from Pakistan it was so cool to see how we're reading almost the same books despite the geographical, social and cultural differences. really makes you think about the impact of 'tradition' eliot is talking about.
Those books that you tangled with will have left their mark in some way.Always a joy to listen to you!📚❤️
📚 Thank you, Emma! I've been hoping you would do one of these videos for your third year. My junior year was different: a lot of philosophy, American poetry, and creative writing coursework. Also I was pre law so I did a paralegal certificate that year. We've been having a heatwave in California so I just finished rereading Untold Night and Day. Now my brain is a mush of hot rice.
stay safe. so sorry you are suffering through the horrendous temperatures.
i will watch a billion of these videos. this & the bookshelf videos are essential to my life. please keep them coming every couple months like you do lol it's the best
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Very interesting video!
I love Yeats, Eliot, Blake, Plath and Dickinson; awesome poets. I'm reading Plath's journals at the moment.
I've only read Heaney's verse translation of Beowulf (one of my favourite stories of all time), I should read his other stuff.
Milton's so interesting.
It sounds crazy but some real kingdoms were broken up into smaller realms when the king died, each part going to a different child; for example, Charlemagne's empire was huge and was split up into three different parts (one part basically gave us France and another Germany). From what I understand this was common in late antiquity and in the early middle ages, but after a while people realised it actually was a good idea to not divide the realm. So King Lear isn't that crazy; Shakespeare was heavily influenced by history and works of literature written before his time.
P.S. Love the cat meowing.
I am a Linguistics student and thou i dont study literature, i totally love it. There is a very deep connection between language, the way we invemt stories and how these stories shape us and help us thru tough times. Language is a truly remackable thing.❤PS.Lots of love from Bulgaria🇧🇬
my cat: WHERE are you HIDING the BABY
Yes, a video without Calcifer is like a day without sunshine.
Emma, I did listen to your entire video 📚 and truly enjoyed hearing all the books you absorbed this third year. You are SO close to the lit finish line...Wow,...monumental effort on your part. How do you have ANY time for pleasure reads at all?! Keep up the great work!!!
Thank you for sharing your experience as Lit student. I am so interested in different people reading list. As I was also lit student, It is really interesting and useful thinking if taking master degree as well.
That BotM ad had me rolling! 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
I loved Bartleby the Scrivener! "I would prefer not to" is one of my favorite lines in literature. :)
right??? it's iconic.
📚 always! your videos help me heal daily. Thank you for making content and being so wholesome 🌻
I'm now at my 2nd year as an English major and i live with your past, Emma. I'm watching your videos of your journey from the past (like a guide map) and you motivate my present life. More videos like this please 💚💚💚
nothing could've prepared me for the bookman's hand snaking through the door
So many books Emma! At least you got to read Ginsberg, lol 😅
I'm starting my English language and literature degree next monday, I'm looking forward to it
Currently reading Beloved by Toni Morrison for the first time for leisure read. It is VERY difficult for me to get use to the flow and understand what's happening. Lots of ppl I've heard talk about how brilliant the work is, and 100% I agree because it's brimming with such unique prose, symbolism, and the plot is very intriguing! But probably a book that makes more sense once rereading it. However, I'm glad I'm not the only who had a hard time reading it for the first time haha
I adore prufrock! also read it in one of my english lit classes.
these videos are so much fun, as a fellow lit student i'm always nosy to see what other people read for class
Yep, count me: Prufrock a favorite.
I think i made the wrong decision by choosing linguistics over literature 🥶
Some years ago I read the bell jar, sometimes i question my self... How could Sylvia Plath understand that been a woman sometimes is like being and not being a woman, sometimes is as powerfull as words, and others as fragile as snow melting under the sun.... Thank you for showing me a new way to Sylvia Plath words and empowerment!
Are you Emmie? goddess of books?
Emma! have you heard of the song Rilkean Heart by Cocteau Twins??
Sometimes I think I should’ve been an English major because I devour these videos, but then I realize I just love all of the videos on your channel
WOW. book man found you even though you moved lol.
I highly recommend finishing Invisible Man if you haven't I read it in high school and it really impacted me, I hope to reread this year
How are you able to get so MUCH accomplished?
Amazing that you seemingly never rest yet keep on keeping on.🙂🤣
I would have never known you were a comedian as well. 😂📚
Ayyy i just finished titus for my Shakespeare class and now an Emmie video. Woohoo!
Wow, Titus is such a bizarre play, and Aaron the Moor is a real bad guy. As your professor may have noted, likely the producers of the play asked Shakspeare to include some graphic sex-based violence, which you don't see much of in later plays.
It is strange compared to other Shakespeare plays. It wasn't terrible but it definitely wasnt my favorite.
@@mirandy03 You can compare Tamora with Margaret (HVI2,3), and the fate of Iago is roughly similar to that of Aaron, but besides those there are few points of similarity in the canon of a playwright who typically uses the same devices over and over.
Hi Emmie, I'm your new fan from China. Honestly I was first attracted to your face so that I decided to subscribe your channel🤫
Calcifer sounds like you 🤣
Currently studying for English lit M.A. entrance exam and slowly dying ✌🏻
Yeah, studying isn't as much fun as talking about what you've read, IMO. Tho, talking about how much you studied can be fun too. It passes.
can you pls recommend a book that has Cornerstone by Artic Monkeys vibes? you know, dating similar persons or dating both brothers/sisters
I was reading a book on Juan Gabriel and checking out a video on TH-cam of one of his songs entitled No Tengo Dinero and he was actually singing that song to a girl I Haven't No Money back in the year 1972 he was singing it to her almost screaming i ask myself how can a guy sing such a song to a girl ?
The middle shelf towards your right. 10th or the 11th book is - House of Leaves. That book is just 😮
Emmie should start an advertising company
The English Majors I know mostly read Sparknotes.
I can't even judge, because if my degree had an equivalent of Sparknotes, I'd read it.
@@I05-e4s To be fair, one of the people I know is myself. The temptation was too strong.
Just wait until you’re in grad school and have to read all of that in one week. 😅
Help me
Yeah I got could you review Dune book pls i am new subscriber thanks
as someone who studied English lit(I am Korean), this video reminded me of my 20's.
Out of all the environments that you have read would you say that my lap is your favorite one?
Since you love both Seamus Heaney and Beowulf--have you read Heaney's translation of Beowulf? He translated the original piece into a modern poem sticking to both the metric and rhyming by alliteration of the original. It's incredibile.
I'm just starting my course on Medieval Literature and I'm reading Heaney's translation alongside Tolkien's and wow, they are both gorgeous!
You should've read "Adventures of Tom Sawyer" by Mark Twain first! Then you would've absolutely loved the "Adventures of Huckleberry Finn"
Without Tom Huck is nothing and without Huck, Tom is nothing. They are two parts of one story ❤
Great video. What do you think of Harold Bloom's Western Canon?
I haven't read Daisy Miller yet, but I loved Portrait of a Lady. 📚
This is giving me life, I just started my graduate program and it’s the first time in years I haven’t had to order like ten novels for the semester and I surprisingly missed it! I’m loving my workshop and journal editing course though. Thanks Emmie!
Woow so many things to add to my read list lol 📚
EMMA LMAOOAOAOAOOOO THE INTRO IS TOO GOOD
This made me want to go back to college. P.H.d? Maybe
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Good luck with studies! You are very cute and humble
I love BotM Man Emmie!! It's good to see "him" again 😆 🤣 😂
I really enjoyed the video📚. It as just fantastic
as a junior majoring in english lit. u are my professor💗😌
I wasn't able to pursue a Lit degree so I love when you make these videos, I add many more works to the TBR. Thanks, Emma! 📚🤗
same
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we all need a book man in our lives 🤧
great moniker!!
This was really interesting to know. Thank you for walking through and giving us a brief idea about all the books you studied. I'm personally torn between choosing English or Psychology as my course, and people always say I would do really well in English, but honestly... most of the syllabus doesn't seem appealing to me. I do love analyzing and writing reviews of books/movies, especially ones I liked, but I'm not sure if that's enough of a reason to take it as my degree. Psychology on the other hand is a subject I've always been fascinated and curious about (along with Physics and Philosophy), and I just love observing people, their interactions with each other, how people think, and getting to know more about how the human mind works. I just love how nuanced of a field it is because it's so hard to gauge human beings. I also like learning about various mental health issues, and want to create more of an awareness for it, especially since it is lacking where I live in. I've never learned psychology (at least in school), so I can't say if I'd do well in it. Sorry for going off on a tangent, haha, but your video was really insightful on English literature. Also, I'm kind of curious to read your Frankenstein essay. Stay well, Emma. :)
Many undergrads find that five, even six years is necessary to finish their first uni degree, which is fine if you can afford it. Of course, the older you are when you do near graduation the more you will actually understand (rather than parrot), tho some employers do prefer new hires who are not already fully-formed. As for psychology - much more than for English - the internships and real-life classes are very helpful.
@@jamesduggan7200 Ooh, I see! Thank you so much. :')
As someone who didn't study English, you can still love literature and explore great classics while studying another degree! Your thoughts will not be bolstered and fed by well-read professors (unless you seek out critical essays), but you can still form them and enjoy the process of doing so.
@@I05-e4s Aah, yes. Exactly. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. :)
@@I05-e4s YES!!!
Thumbnail soooooo lovely!!!💕
I just graduated this year, but you really just make me wanna go and start in English literature major rn
right??? i'm retired & im actually considering going back to uni!
@@jmsl910 that's so sweet😭❤️
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I’m saddened to hear you didn’t enjoy Twain…I’m one of his descendants and ‘Cousin Sam’ has been one of my lifelong inspirations. He wrote across what we would consider many genres, and I firmly believe there’s a Twain piece for everyone.
Frost is one of my revered poets. If you want a shivery take on Frost, check out “One Night By The Pacific.” It’s as far as you can get from the farmer poem archetype as you can get. It absolutely quivers with suppressed rage.
I have to admit, as an American, I’m mildly outraged on the null effect of Ben Franklin’s biography. He is one of our most cherished Fathers, and I personally turn to his writings to find solace and restore my belief in what our Founding Fathers intended, especially in the current political climate. He’s been a solace and a comfort in his down-to-earth yet aspirational writings.
Gentle scritches to Calcifer and much love to you, Emma.
i had a similarly wistful reaction to how underwhelmed emmie was with American Lit. i was particularly disheartened (too strong of a word, but def saddened) that she didn't ADORE hf.
Great video as always, it's a good review of what's expected of from an English literature student. I myself didn't study English I studied Engineering and I am trying to be a more critical Or analytical reader trying to catch up on what's expected so I don't know if you ever made a video about analytical reading for the purpose of writing an essay if you didn't please think about it.
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These are translations I read in a Middle English Romance class, The Mabinogion (translated by Gwyn Jones and Thomas Jones), Sir Gwain and the Green Knight (translated by J.R.R. Tolkien), The Lais of Marie de France (translated by Robert Hanning & Joan Ferrante). They might evoke similar interest as Beowulf. Middle English Romances selected and edited by Stephen H. A. Shepherd are not translated, but the book has 8 pages about reading the texts.There are also detailed notes in the margins for inline word translations and footnotes explaining lines or stanzas that are not easily understood.
I really love ur voice ❤️ u
Excellent job. Nice analysis. Very sober-minded and sincere critiques. Thank you!
Since you mentioned liking both Seamus Heaney and Beowulf in this video, you should check out his reworking of it, especially in the audio read by him if you can.
Hey Emmie which school did you attend? Because I wish my school let us read more selections like you. I am also an English major, but I didn’t read as broad a selection as you did… and I’m sad about that. 😢
I didn't go to a fancy school or anything but I did an English degree and we read nice things like Jane Austen and victorian novels. I tried to take only courses on books written before 1900 so that was a really interesting ride for me. My favourite books were The Romance of the Forest (Ann Radcliffe) and Sylvia's Lovers (Elizabeth Gaskell). I also loved The Merchant of Venice, The Portrait of a Lady, and......Dracula? Basically I just like nice books, gothic, love stories, etc. I guess if a book is both sweet and a little dark I like it. It would be nice if I did a master's but tbh I don't have the gpa for that T^T Sometimes I really miss my nice uni days >.> I graduated 2 years ago and now facing adulthood pressures XD
Oh my gosh, that intro was so sick!
Edit: I loved the use of the phrase "...but you already knew that". I feel like it's from The Matrix, or some other popular film...
Love the video, specially the sound effects by Calcifer! 😺 Do you intend to read Other Birds, Emma? I like Sarah Addison Allen very much. I wanna read Memorial, very interesting.
That skit 😂
Invisible Man! Perhaps the book that's stuck with me most from high school days, incredibly powerful
I have a cat that still meows very much like Calcifer and every time Calcifer meows I turn back looking for my cat thinking he’s talking to me LMAO 😭😭
Book Man: Best.superhero.ever. Most people thought I'd be an English major but I opted for History and now teach Social Studies. I tutor a lot in ELA and Reading though. Great video, Emma! P.S. "This whole book is one, long sentence" is now my favorite English hot take ever!📚