English syllabus

Paper I
Literature in English 1550-1660
Prescribed Texts A
1. Metaphysical poetry Prof Grierson.

A) John Donne

1. The Relique
2. A Valediction : Of Weeping
3. Twicknam Garden

B) Goerge Herbert

1) Easter Wings
2) The Collar
3) The Church Flower

C) Andrew Marvell

1) The Gallery
2) To His Coy Mistress
3) The Definition of Love


2. William Shakespeare : Measure for Measure
3. Thomas Kyd : Spanish Tragedy
4. Thomas Browne : The Urn Burial
5 Bacons essays : OF Travel, Marriage, Studies, Love, Friendship,


Prescribed Texts : B

1.John Milton Paradise Lost IX
2.William Shakespeare Hamlet
3.William Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale
4. Christopher Marlowe Doctor Faustus









Paper II

1660 --- 1789
Prescribed Texts : A



1.John Dryden Mc Flecknoe
2.R B Sheridan School for Scandal
3.Jonathan swift A Tale of a Tub
4.Samuel Richardson Pamela
5.Thomas Gray 1.The Ode On The Spring
2.Hym to Adversity
3.Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard



Prescribed Texts B
1 Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock
2) William Congreve The way of the world
3) Oliver Goldsmith Citizen of the World
4) Henry Fielding Tome Jones






















Paper III

1798-1914

Prescribed Text A

1 William Worsdworth : Ode Intimations of immortality From Recollections of Early Childhood


2. Lord Alfred Tennyson 1. oenone
2. Lotus Eaters
3. Jane Austen Pride and prejudice
4. Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere’s Fan
5, Emerson Self Reliance


Prescribed Text B
1. John Keats The Eve of St Agnes.
2. Robert Browning : i) My last Duches ii) The Last Ride Together
3. Thoms Hardy Mayor of Casterbridge
4. G B Shaw Doctors dilemma
























Paper IV
1914-2000
Prescribed Text A

1. T S Eliot 1. Hollow men 2. Journey of the Magi
3. Ash Wednesday
2. Edward Albee ; Zoo Story
3, Bhima Sahani Tamas
4. Kingley Amis : One Fat English Man
5. Asif Currimbhoy Goa




Prescribed Text B

1 W B Yeats 1 Tower 2) The Second Coming
3 )Sailing to Byzantium. 4) Wild swans at Coole 5) A prayer for my daughter
2, Vigrigina Wolf : To The Light House
3. Harold Pinter : The home coming
4. Ruth Prawer Jhabwala ; Heat and Dust