Detailed study of a literary age (19th Century)

The paper will cover the study of English literature from 1798 to 1900 with special reference to the works of W. Blake, Wordsworth, Shelly, Keats, Byron, Charles Lamb, Dickens, Tennyson, Robert Browning, Hardy, George Elliot, J.S. Mill, Ruskin and Oscar Wilde.

Evidence of first hand reading will be required. The paper will be designed to test not only the candidates’ knowledge of the prescribed authors but also their understanding of the main literary trends during the period. Questions having a bearing on the social and cultural background of the Period also be included.

The paper will require first hand knowledge of the text prescribed as well as general awareness of the authors’ major works and will be designed to test the candidates’ critical ability

1 Shakespeare - Hamlet
2 Swift Gulliver’s - Travels
3 Jane Austin - Pride and Prejudice
4 Shaw - Pygmalion
5 Yeats - The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium, Among School Children
6 T.S. Eliot - The Waste Land
7 D.H. Lawrence - Sons & Lovers
8 Earnest Hemingway - Old Man & The Sea
9 Samuel Backet- Waiting for Godot
10 Robert Frost - The Pasture, Revelation, The Tuft of Flowers, After Apple Picking, Mending Wall, The Road Not Taken, An Old Man’s Winter Night, Birches, Fire and Ice, Stopping by Woods, West-running Brook, Desert Places

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