What Oxbridge Colleges are best for English?

I would say apply to the college you like best. I doubt there will be much variation in teaching between colleges because all the modules etc are standardized. My friend is loving LMH.

About reading, i suggest you have a look at interests of the tutors that will interview you and read a bit around that.

I've been advised to apply to Oxbridge to read English, however, I'm struggling to get an idea of what colleges are best for the subject as the lists are so long.

If anyone could help me with this I would be very grateful.
Also, are there any recommended reads that would score brownie points?

Thanks again.

Why are you thinking about colleges when you haven't even picked a university... ? You do know the courses are pretty different, don't you? I love the Cambridge course, but the Oxford one looked to me like the most boring thing in the world.

i remember you saying this exact thing to me last year

she is, of course, lying. the answer is exeter college, oxford.

Read Kafka.

Kafka isn't English literature, He was an Austrian Jew.

Kafka isn't English literature, He was an Austrian Jew.

Still, it's literature. Most lovely to read aswell.

And it's under-rated/people are under-exposed to it.

One could argue that Chaucer isn't in English either, yet that's still studied.

One could argue that Chaucer isn't in English either ...

My point was that "English literature" presumably involves the study of works of literature which were originally written in English (hence the "English literature" as opposed to "literature" title). Thus works by authors whose works were originally not in English (Dostoevsky, Kafka) would be excluded. There seems little sense in an "English" course, which focuses heavily on the English language and its respective literature, including foreign texts.

Or is that me just being pedantic?

I would say so, yes.

A course that kept exclusively to works written and published in England would be... not one I would want to study, at any rate.