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) 😭
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.
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
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!
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🤧
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 🥺🥰📚
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 🤧😤
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
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.
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.
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!
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!💗🌻🌻
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!
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
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🇧🇬
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.
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 📚📚
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. 📚
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 💚💚💚
🤓🥰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!!
📚 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.
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!!!
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
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!
the word from the sponsors... where is emmie's emmy award!! brilliant talented showstopping. also i've been following i think most if not all your videos this past year and a half, and it's mindblowing to see how much school reading and serious studying you've done, all collected together here... when we get the monthly vlogs it seems like a tough but doable chunk of work but now that it's all here... whoa! this is all so incredible! your superbrain!! i feel so proud of you
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.
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.
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.🌻
me, an english major, watching you talk about the books you had to read and realizing that i've read most of them too. it makes me really happy. also, i've recently read frankenstein and i would love to read your essay on it
I first found you in the very beginning of 2021 through the video 'books a first year English literature student reads', and ever since my reading depth has grown at an incredible speed, all thanks to you. Sincerely, you opened worlds for me 😊 As a person living in a non-english speaking country 🇰🇷where you have to wait at least 2 weeks for english book delivery, so thankful for this.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@miraintheforest 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.
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
📚 it's so great when you do videos on your English major. I can't afford college so seeing what you read for those classes is helpful (cause I'm maniacally scribbling the titles down so I can read them too lol).
I just recently read If We Were Villains which is like a dark academia focused on Shakespeare and his works. I'm vaguely familiar with them so hearing you talk about King Lear made me understand it more! Now I want to explore more of Shakespeare too!
Amazing video, and yeah you are right, Richard Lovelace is a cavalier poet💜 I can say that since i found your channel,I've been obsessed. I love your way of talking and your vocabulary💕 You are amazing and i wish you success 💜
Some really good reads by sounds of it thanks for the video, I might look into that Beckett play. I'm just starting my English lit MA and a few books I've got to read so far are a picture of Dorian Gray and nights at the circus. I'm really looking forward to my classes next week
📚 I love all of your videos. We may not always agree in tastes, but that's the beauty of the volume of books out, that there is something for everyone.
my cat is a year and a half & we have gone through so many bags of springs!! every time we move a couch or bed or bookshelf etc. we find a bunch of them! 😂 she also goes absolutely nuts for them and it’s adorable! loved this video! going into my third year as a history major with an english minor, so i love all your videos! have the best day.. ❤️
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...
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!📚
nothing could've prepared me for the bookman's hand snaking through the door
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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!
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.
This video was soo interesting, i just love hearing you talk about books !!!! I also loved the "book man" haha. Thank u emmie for another great video!❤
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.
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.
📚LOL “…don’t” at the end 😂 pet parent pain but cats especially. They do that mental game of “I’m about to wreck your life but I’m going to make you watch” Loved the video, as always. I enjoy living vicariously through you for uni. I didn’t get to go myself and so I love feeling like I’m getting a taste of what it’s like. 💕
Please Emmie could you please recommend a book or two about diction , word choice and sentence structures choice and style and how that relate to the overall theme of a novel
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.
Going through my new syllabus for my Modernism and Postmodernism class while watching this, and Howl by Allen Ginsberg is one of my assigned readings! Super excited!
Although I can't recall the exact dates of either, compare Howl and Bell Jar. Both deal with mental trauma and sexual inexperience, though it's unclear if one causes the other or if they truly are directly connected.
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.
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! ❤️
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🤧
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 🥺🥰📚
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!!!
the angst between the bookman + emma is palpable im crying
'i-- i waited for you..' CMON MAN.
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 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.
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!
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!
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
Those books that you tangled with will have left their mark in some way.Always a joy to listen to you!📚❤️
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
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🇧🇬
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.
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 📚📚
wtf the light in this video is so natural and perfectly balanced
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. 📚
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 💚💚💚
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
🤓🥰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!!
📚 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.
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!!!
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 loved Bartleby the Scrivener! "I would prefer not to" is one of my favorite lines in literature. :)
right??? it's iconic.
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!
the word from the sponsors... where is emmie's emmy award!! brilliant talented showstopping. also i've been following i think most if not all your videos this past year and a half, and it's mindblowing to see how much school reading and serious studying you've done, all collected together here... when we get the monthly vlogs it seems like a tough but doable chunk of work but now that it's all here... whoa! this is all so incredible! your superbrain!! i feel so proud of you
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.
The skit in the beginning is why we love you. The mustache gets me every time 😂💜
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.🌻
me, an english major, watching you talk about the books you had to read and realizing that i've read most of them too. it makes me really happy. also, i've recently read frankenstein and i would love to read your essay on it
I first found you in the very beginning of 2021 through the video 'books a first year English literature student reads', and ever since my reading depth has grown at an incredible speed, all thanks to you. Sincerely, you opened worlds for me 😊 As a person living in a non-english speaking country 🇰🇷where you have to wait at least 2 weeks for english book delivery, so thankful for this.
Watching your videos emmie,feels like everything is happening in a correct order,lots of love from india
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.
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 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
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
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!!!
Haha love the Book of the Month skits!
I’m reading the Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson currently.
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.
@@miraintheforest 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.
Invisible Man! Perhaps the book that's stuck with me most from high school days, incredibly powerful
that was the only book of the month ad that i haven’t skipped through!!!
Excellent job. Nice analysis. Very sober-minded and sincere critiques. Thank you!
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
📚 it's so great when you do videos on your English major. I can't afford college so seeing what you read for those classes is helpful (cause I'm maniacally scribbling the titles down so I can read them too lol).
I just recently read If We Were Villains which is like a dark academia focused on Shakespeare and his works. I'm vaguely familiar with them so hearing you talk about King Lear made me understand it more! Now I want to explore more of Shakespeare too!
As someone who’s planning to study literature, I love the videos about uni
Amazing video, and yeah you are right, Richard Lovelace is a cavalier poet💜 I can say that since i found your channel,I've been obsessed. I love your way of talking and your vocabulary💕 You are amazing and i wish you success 💜
Some really good reads by sounds of it thanks for the video, I might look into that Beckett play. I'm just starting my English lit MA and a few books I've got to read so far are a picture of Dorian Gray and nights at the circus. I'm really looking forward to my classes next week
📚 I love all of your videos. We may not always agree in tastes, but that's the beauty of the volume of books out, that there is something for everyone.
my cat is a year and a half & we have gone through so many bags of springs!! every time we move a couch or bed or bookshelf etc. we find a bunch of them! 😂 she also goes absolutely nuts for them and it’s adorable! loved this video! going into my third year as a history major with an english minor, so i love all your videos! have the best day.. ❤️
📚 always! your videos help me heal daily. Thank you for making content and being so wholesome 🌻
your intros are getting increasingly better and better. I love love love your videos x
The middle shelf towards your right. 10th or the 11th book is - House of Leaves. That book is just 😮
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...
I'm starting my English language and literature degree next monday, I'm looking forward to it
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!📚
nothing could've prepared me for the bookman's hand snaking through the door
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!
EMMA LMAOOAOAOAOOOO THE INTRO IS TOO GOOD
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.
This video was soo interesting, i just love hearing you talk about books !!!! I also loved the "book man" haha. Thank u emmie for another great video!❤
“Where all life dies, death lives…” a quote from Paradise Lost that just really stood out to me
I loved everything about this, including the “ad.” 😂❤️
I’m invested in the book man-Emmie saga
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.
Your sponsorship part is so on point!
my cat: WHERE are you HIDING the BABY
Yes, a video without Calcifer is like a day without sunshine.
Always the very best ad spots! 📚📚
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.
I love those Ads so much they are the coolest
📚 honestly, i’m living for these ads
omfg ive been waiting for an update on this video so months!!
How are you able to get so MUCH accomplished?
Amazing that you seemingly never rest yet keep on keeping on.🙂🤣
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😭❤️
That AD my God 🤣 also I still want to read that Frankenstein essay sometime 📚
📚LOL “…don’t” at the end 😂 pet parent pain but cats especially. They do that mental game of “I’m about to wreck your life but I’m going to make you watch”
Loved the video, as always. I enjoy living vicariously through you for uni. I didn’t get to go myself and so I love feeling like I’m getting a taste of what it’s like. 💕
these ads are killing me omg i need a one-hour compilation of them
we all need a book man in our lives 🤧
great moniker!!
📚 I hope Book of the Month appreciates your awesome sponsor adds.
100% cannot recommend Invisible Man enough - it's one of those books that will stay with you forever! Please do finish it.
bartleby got me interested in melvilles writing, I loved it.
Please Emmie could you please recommend a book or two about diction , word choice and sentence structures choice and style and how that relate to the overall theme of a novel
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!
the best ad ever seriously
I would kill to read your essay on Lady Lazarus! I fell in love with that poem in my senior year of high school-it’s the best!🤍
📚as always, so lovely to hear you, Emmie.
That Daisy Miller book has such a gorgeous cover
I haven't read Daisy Miller yet, but I loved Portrait of a Lady. 📚
The skit was 100%! I got the new mystery book for September.
as someone who studied English lit(I am Korean), this video reminded me of my 20's.
Such a good video. Reminded me of my bachelors and masters 💖🌸💕
That's the most entertaining ad I've ever watched
Going through my new syllabus for my Modernism and Postmodernism class while watching this, and Howl by Allen Ginsberg is one of my assigned readings! Super excited!
Although I can't recall the exact dates of either, compare Howl and Bell Jar. Both deal with mental trauma and sexual inexperience, though it's unclear if one causes the other or if they truly are directly connected.
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 😭😭
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 BotM ad had me rolling! 🤣🤣🤣👏👏👏
Thumbnail soooooo lovely!!!💕
📚 its so interesting the range of books you got to read