Free European Classics Courses

Lectures on Shakespeare and readings of his best works.

Works by major British authors representative of the romantic, Victorian, and modern periods.

Who were the Romantics? In this free course conducted by Timothy Morton, listeners will learn about an innovative literary period between 1790 and 1820 that produced influential writers such as William Blake, Jane Austen, William Wordsworth, John Keats, and Mary Shelley.

This Yale course goes through the entire book chronologically, and in the course listings it says which chapters will be covered in each lecture.

New lecture series on Oscar Wilde, his life, his works and his philosophy delivered by Dr Sos Eltis, lecturer in English.

Works by major British authors representative of medieval, Renaissance, and neoclassical periods.

Dryden, Pope, Swift, Johnson, and Blake; the poetic genres; the rise of journalism and the novel; biography and drama; historical and philosophical background.