Refaat Alareer, former student Nadya Siyam notes, “generally loved Shakespeare and John Donne.” He frequently taught introductory courses on English literature, Shakespeare, Victorian literature, and poetry. Below, readers will find some of the works he returned to often.
Beowulf
Hamlet, The Merchant of Venice, and Othello
by William Shakespeare
The fiction of Virginia Woolf
and Aphra Behn
Gulliver’s Travels
by Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
by Jonathan Swift
Tristam Shandy
by Laurence Sterne
Frankenstein
by Mary Shelley
Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, and Great Expectations
by Charles Dickens
A Room of One’s Own
by Virginia Woolf
Orientalism
by Edward Said
In Jerusalem
by Tamim Al-Barghouti
“The Bait” and “The Flea”
by John Donne
“A Wreath”
by George Herbert
“The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
by Christopher Marlowe
“Paradise Lost”
by John Milton
“Ozymandias”
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
“Composed upon Westminster Bridge”
by William Wordsworth
“Kubla Khan”
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“How Do I Love Thee”
by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
“Dover Beach”
by Matthew Arnold
“The Wasteland”
by T.S. Eliot
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