SYLLABUS FOR PART ONE

SYLABUS FOR MA ENGLISH

Paper 1                      Classical Poetry

Paper 2                      Drama

Paper 3                      Novel

Paper 4                      Prose

Paper 5                      American Literature

PAPER ONE===================CLASSICAL POETRY

1.     CHAUCER (READ ONLINE)

The Prologue to the Conterbury Tales

2.     MILTON (READ ONLINE)

Paradise Lost Book I & IX

3.     DONNE (READ ONLINE)

Love and Divine Poems

4.     WYATT (READ ONLINE)

·        The long love that in my thought.

·        Whose list to hunt?

·        Madam withouten many words.

·        They flee from me, that sometime did me seek.

·        Is it possible?

·        Forget not yet the tried intent.

·        What should I say.

·        Stand who so list.

5.     SURREY (READ ONLINE)

•  My friend
•  The things that do attain love.
•  That doth reign and live within my thought.
•  So cruel prison. 5-Wyatt resteth here.

PAPER TWO ========================== DRAMA

1.     SOPHOCLES (READ ONLINE)

Oedipus Rex

2.     MARLOWE (READ ONLINE)

Dr.Faustus

3.     SHAKESPEARE (READ ONLINE)

·        Othello

·        The Winter’s Tale

4.     OSCAR WILDE (READ ONLINE)

The Importance Of Being Earnest

PAPER THREE======================== NOVEL

1.     TROLLOPE (READ ONLINE)

Barchester Towers

2.     JANE AUSTEN (READ ONLINE)

Pride & Prejudice

3.     GEORGE  ELIOT (READ ONLINE)

Adam Bede

4.     CHARLES DICKENS (READ ONLINE)

A Tale Of Two Cities

5.     THOMAS HARDY (READ ONLINE)

The Return Of the Native

PAPER FOUR ======================== PROSE

1.     FRANCIS BACON (READ ONLINE)

·        Of Revenge

·        Of Truth

·        Of Death

·        Of Adversities

·        Of Simulation And Dissimulation

·        Of Parents And Children

·        Of Great Place

·        Of Nobilities

·        Of Superstition

·        Of Friendship

·        Of Ambition

·        Of Studies

2.     JONATHAN SWIFT (READ ONLINE)

Gulliver’s Travels

3.     BERTRAND RUSSEL (READ ONLINE)

Unpopular Essays

4.     ESWARD SAID (READ ONLINE)

Introduction to Culture & Imperialism

5.     SEAMUS HEANEY (READ ONLINE)

Redress of Poetry

PAPER FIVE ============== AMERICAN LITERATURE

POETRY

1. ADRIENNE RICH (READ ONLINE)

• Diving into the wreck.
• Aunt Jennifer’s tiger.
• Final Notation.
• Gabriel.

2. SYLVIA PLATH (READ ONLINE)

• Ariel

• Morning Song
• Poppies in October
• The Bee Meeting.
• The Arrival of the Bee Box.
• Your

3. RICHARD WILBUR (READ ONLINE)

• Still Citizen Sparrow.
• After the Last Bulletin.
• Marginalia

4. JOHN ASHBURY (READ ONLINE)

• Melodic Train.
• Painter.

DRAMA

1. O’NEIL (READ ONLINE)

Mourning becomes Electra

2. MILLER (READ ONLINE)

The Crucible

NOVEL

1. ERNEST HEMINGWAY (READ ONLINE)

For Whom the Bell Tolls

2. TONI MORRISON (READ ONLINE)

Jazz

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