Literature: Free Courses

Get free Literature courses from the world’s leading universities. You can download these audio & video courses straight to your computer or mp3 player. For more online courses, visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

  • American Literature I: Beginnings to Civil War - iTunes - YouTube - Web Site – Cyrus Patell, NYU
  • Cervantes’ Don Quixote - iTunes Video - iTunes Audio - YouTube - Web Site – Roberto González Echevarría, Yale
  • Existentialism in Literature & Film - iTunes – Hubert Dreyfus, UC Berkeley
  • Dante in Translation - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Giuseppe Mazzotta
  • Holocaust in Film and Literature - YouTube – Todd Presner, UCLA
  • Introduction to Pre-Modern Japanese Literature and Culture - iTunes Audio – John Wallace, UC Berkeley
  • Introduction to Theory of Literature - iTunes - YouTube - Download Course – Paul H. Fry, Yale
  • Invitation to World Literature - Web Site - David Damrosch, Harvard
  • Literature in English: Late-17th to Mid-19th Century - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • Milton - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – John Rogers, Yale
  • Modern Poetry - YouTube – iTunes - Download Course – Langdon Hammer, Yale
  • Not Shakespeare: Elizabethan and Jacobean Popular Theatre - iTunes – Oxford
  • Old English in Context - iTunes – Stuart Lee, Oxford University
  • Restoration and 18th Century Poetry: From Dryden to Wordsworth - Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Shakespeare - iTunes – Charles Altieri, UC Berkeley
  • Shakespeare After All: The Later Plays - Multiple Formats – Marjorie Garber, Harvard
  • Spenser and Milton – Web Audio - William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Survey of Shakespeare’s Plays - Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • The American Novel Since 1945 - YouTube - iTunes Audio - iTunes Video - Download Course – Amy Hungerford, Yale
  • The Literature of Crisis - iTunes – Marsh McCall & Martin Evans, Stanford
  • The Western Canon: From Homer to Milton - Web Audio – William Flesch, Brandeis
  • Virgil’s Aeneid: Anatomy of a Classic - iTunes – Susanna Braund, Stanford

For a full lineup of online courses, please visit our complete collection of Free Courses.

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