Now that school is officially over, I’ve compiled a list of texts I enjoyed reading for my English classes this term. If you feel bored at any point over the summer, I encourage taking one of these up:
- “Elegy in a Country Churchyard” by Thomas Gray (poem)
- A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf (essay)
- “Little Red-Cap” by Carol Ann Duffy (poem)
- Arcadia by Tom Stoppard (play)
- A Short History of Indians in Canada by Thomas King (collection of short stories)
- “Vancouver Lights” by Earle Birney (poem)
- “El Greco: Espolio” by Earle Birney (poem — based on painting of that same name by El Greco)
- “To a Sad Daughter” by Michael Ondaatje (poem)
- “Bearhug” by Michael Ondaatje (poem)
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith (novel)
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