BA (Hons) English

Over the centuries, many writers have studied in Cambridge: Edmund Spenser, John Milton, William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, EM Forster, Sylvia Plath, Ted Hughes, Kamau Brathwaite, AS Byatt, Zadie Smith and Helen Oyeyemi. When established, the Cambridge course was considered ground-breaking and this ethos of innovation and progress continues to shape teaching and research here.
Today’s course balances a strong grounding in literary works written in English with the chance to explore other art forms, including music and film, in relation to literature, as well as literature’s connections to intellectual traditions including philosophy, art history and politics.