Lycidas

I'm in the middle of Eagleton's book at the moment. Particularly enjoyed this little quip earlier today: "The earlier generation of thinkers had been post-Marxist in the sense of both distancing and drawing upon it; the new generation was post-Marxist in the sense that David Bowie is post-Darwinist." I really do think Eagleton's work is worth reading on the strength of the periodic popular-culture analogies alone

I second this recommendation. Yale's online courses have been very beneficial for me in filling in gaps not offered by my undergrad institution. For a different sort of approach to theory (one that was largely unfamiliar to me as an American, although like I said, my undergrad has curriculum gaps) you could check out Cambridge's Itunes U course on Literary Criticism as well.