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This course offers an in-depth look at 11 carefully selected figures: Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Zora Neale Hurston, Sherwood Anderson, Flannery O’Connor, William S. Burroughs, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Coover, Toni Morrison, and Don DeLillo.

The Aeneid is ancient Rome’s great national epic. It was basic to the education of generations of Romans and inspired such writers and artists as St. Augustine, Dante, Chaucer, Tennyson, and T. S. Elliot.

What makes a written work eternal—its message still so fundamental to the way we live that it continues to speak to us, hundreds or thousands of years distant from the lifetime of its author?

Classical mythology—the stories of gods and heroes ranging from Athena to Zeus—has inspired everything from great art and literature to popular films and TV programs.

Accessing the great American books—the classics—is a unique way of understanding the history of this country and of adding to our own personal estate of literary wealth.

Russian literature famously probes the depths of the human soul. These 36 half-hour lectures delve into this extraordinary body of work under the guidance of Professor Irwin Weil of Northwestern University, an award-winning teacher at Northwestern University and a legend among educators in the United States and Russia.

This course explores Dante’s Divine Comedy from both a historical and literary perspective.

From antiquity to today, philosophers and poets alike have conducted a great debate about the nature and meaning of literature, centered around a few key questions.

It is part of the human endeavor to invent and inhabit literary landscapes. Literature, though "fiction," provides experiential knowledge to readers who enter those landscapes.

This course offers an in-depth introduction to Greek tragedy.

This course uses 113 examples ranging from Renaissance poems to contemporary American verse...

This course is an excellent introductory guide to the many layers of James Joyce’s landmark novel Ulysses.

This course examines Literary Modernism as a movement that can only be appreciated within the wide-ranging context of the philosophy, literature, politics, and morality of the first half of the 20th century.

Since Shakespeare, no period has produced more brilliant and varied British theater than the last 100 years.

Great literature can be the means of understanding as well as creating our world—by teaching and reinforcing society's laws, articulating its values, and enforcing the social contracts that unite us as a culture.

This course introduces the plays of Shakespeare and explores what makes Shakespeare the leading playwright in Western civilization.

For almost 400 years, Shakespeare’s work has been the standard against which all writers have been judged. This course acknowledges that understanding Shakespeare can be difficult because his plays were written 400 years ago.

This course explores artists' complex renderings of the humanity of city life from the 18th to the 20th centuries.

When John Keats first read Chapman’s translation of the epics of "deep-brow’d Homer," he was so overwhelmed, so overcome with the joy of discovery, that he compared his experience to finding "a new planet."

Mark Twain was one of America’s greatest writers, and its first true celebrity.

This course makes clear why Chaucer is the "father" of English poetry.

This course examines the life and work of English poet John Milton (1608–1674) to understand the richness and depth of his poetry, its representation of 17th-century English life and culture, and its impact on later writers and English literary history as a whole.

This course covers the poetry of the English Romantic period, with emphasis on six of the era’s greatest poets: Blake, Wordsworth, Coleridge, Shelley, Keats, and Byron.

For thousands of year, readers—and, before them, listeners—have thrilled to the tale of one of the greatest journeys in all of literature.

This course examines the three great forms of literary expression—drama, poetry, and narrative—in a chronological introduction to the major texts of Western culture, from antiquity onward.