Having doubts

Hey that's a decent peom -- don't diss Pope.

older literature is better, in my opinion. well, not in terms of quality necessarily, but it shows you what today's stuff, and anything published at the same time or after it in fact, is based on or influenced by. for example i was just looking at book 1 canto 4 of the faerie queene and the way in which it talks about the 6 deadly sins is somewhat similar to that shown in dr faustus (although there are 7 there), and the dating of the two works are very very close indeed i think.

anyway, i've had to have a look at margret atwood's "handmaid's tail" for the satirical element of the a2 course and it serves to remind my why i only bother these days with pre 1640 material for reading in my spare time.

basically, i just wanted to say that older literature rules.

I agree with Rose64 - you shouldn't base your opinion of contemporary literature on one novel, especially one that you disliked (though personally, as a big fan of Margaret Atwood and especially The Handmaid's Tale, I don't understand how you could dislike it).

I really love English, I just prefer studying poetry and drama to novels. Thankfully I'm not required to do novels too much ^_^

Wow- that's quite an unusual view. Generally people have a dislike for poetry [which I personally think is literary ecstacy- its like a novel condensed into a sheet for pure unadulerated analysis] or drama, or to be more precise Shakespeare. I personally dislike analysing drama from an English perspective because it is only the half the story, so to speak- a play is meant to be performed, and scripts are always so bland.