MA I Sem (English) old Course

Paper - I (Poetry)

UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Epic Poetry)
John Milton: Paradise Lost Book-I
Valmiki: The Ramayana (Sundar Kand)
UNIT- III (Narrative Poetry)
Geoffrey Chaucer: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
UNIT- IV (Renaissance Poetry)
William Shakespeare: Sonnets No.- 23, 24, 26, 27, 31, 44.
John Donne: The Extasie, A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, The Good Morrow, Love's Alchemy, The Canonization, The Anniversarie.
UNIT-V (Satirical Poetry)
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock

Paper - II (Drama)

UNIT- I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Non-English Drama)
Sophocles: Oedipus Rex
Kalidas: Abhigyan Shakuntalam (English Translation, Sahitya Academy)
UNIT- III (Shakespearean Tragedy)
Hamlet
King Lear
UNIT- IV (Other Shakespearean Plays)
Twelfth Night
The Tempest
UNIT-V (Renaissance Drama: Non Shakespearean)
Christopher Marlowe: Dr. Faustus
Ben Jonson: Every Man in His Humour

Paper -III (Fiction)

UNIT-I ( Early Prose Narrative)
Bana Bhatt: Kadambari
Cervantes: Don Quixote
UNIT-II: (Picaresque Novel)
Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe
UNIT- III (Historical Novel)
Walter Scott: Kenilworth
Thackeray: Henry Esmond
UNIT- IV (Fiction by Women)
George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss
Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre
UNIT-V (19th Century Realistic Novel)
Charles Dickens: Great Expectations
Zola: Nana

Paper -IV (Prose)

UNIT-I
Annotations
UNIT-II: (Biography and Autobiography)
J.L. Nehru: Autobiography (Fourth Chapter)
Kamala Das: My Story (Fourth Chapter)
UNIT- III (Political and Social Writings)
Plato: The Republic, Book II (First Four Chapters)
Bacon: Of Truth, Of Studies, Of Revenge, Of Love
UNIT- IV (Philosophical Writing)
J. Krishnamurti: 1. Individual and Society 2. Action and Idea 3. What is Self ? 4. What are We Seeking?
Lala Hardayal: Intellectual Culture
UNIT-V
Bertrand Russell: True Success
William Hazlitt: 1. The Ignorance of the Learned 2. The Indian Jugglers.

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