Literature courses
Discover our popular literature courses, whether you want to get started with one of our reading groups or delve into a particular writer, from Shakespeare, Wilde and Austen to Milton, Pinter and more. Florence Afolabi discovered her passion for literature at City Lit and went on to study A/S level literature and language. She now has a PGCE and is soon to become a primary school teacher. Read all about her inspirational story here.
- An introduction to literature: drama
- An introduction to literature: poetry and prose
- An introduction to literature: poetry, prose and drama
- AS level English literature
- City Lit evening reading group
- City Lit reading group
- Classic drama
- Classic short love stories
- Contemporary poetry
- Dante's Vita Nuova and the Pre-Raphaelites
- Detective fiction by women writers 1935-2005
- Drama in society
- Exploring the modern European novel
- Film of the book
- Introduction to poetry
- Literary Landscapes
- Love and desire in Shakespeare
- Make it new! How poetry became modern
- Metaphysical Poets: something understood
- Milton: Paradise Lost 'Our inner freedom'
- Modern American literature
- Poetry of the spirit
- Scenes from a narrative: exploring Howard's End
- Shakespeare in performance
- Shakespeare: comedy and errors
- Taking an impression: Conrad, Ford and Forster
- The 19th century novel
- The freedom of the short story
- The inner light: an exploration of Easter spiritual texts
- The plays of Anton Chekov
- The poems and letters of Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell
- The poet's voice
- The poetry of T.S. Eliot: Little Gidding
- The poetry of T.S. Eliot: The Dry Salvages
- Three classic novels
- Three Shakespeare's and a Marlowe
- Visiting London theatre today
- Ways into literature: drama
- Ways into literature: poetry and prose
- Ways into literature: poetry, prose and drama
- Women writers of the Fin de Siecle
- Women's lives and literature in the early twentieth century
- World fictions
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Humanities
Tel: 020 7492 2652
Advice times:
During term-time Monday 12.30–13.30 and 17.30–18.30 Thursday 12.30–13.30 and 17.30–18.30
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