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English Literature (Total Marks - 200)

Paper - I (Marks 100)

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 Eliot, J.S. Mill, Ruskin and Oscar Wilde.

Evidence of first hand eading will be required. The paper will be designed to test not only the candidate's knowledge of the prescribed authors works 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.

Paper - II (Marks 100)

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

1	Shakespeare	Hamlet
2	Swift	Gullivers Travels
3	Jane Austen	Pride and Prejudice
4	Shaw	Pygmalion
5	Yeats	The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzanthium, Among School children
6	T. S. Eliot	The Waste Land
7	D. H. Lawrence	Sons & Lovers
8	Earnest Hamingway	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

Suggested Readings

	Title	Author
1	After Strange Gods	Eliot T. S.
2	A Guide to English Literature	Ford, B. Pelican series 7 Vols.
3	Common Pursuit	Leavis F. R.
4	D. H. Lawrence	Leavis F. R.
5	Dickens, the Novelist	Leavis F. R.
6	Gulliver and the Gentle Reader	Rowson, C.J.
7	George Eliot: The Critical Heritage	Carol D. (ed)
8	History of English Literature	Legouis and Cazamian
9	History of English Literature	Hudson
10	Hardy, The Novelist	Cecil, D.
11	Hardy; The Critical Heritage	Cox, R.G. (ed)
12	In Memorium in Essay Ancient and Modern	Eliot, T.S.
13	Lawrence	Kermode, F.
14	Romantic Poetry	Abrahams, M.H.
15	Robert Browning	Amstrange, J. (ed)
16	Swift	Steel, P. Preacher and Jester
17	Shakespeare's Later Comedies; An anthology of Modern Criticism	Palmer, D.J. (ed)
18	The World of Swift	Vickers, B. (ed)
19	The Art of Swift	Probyn, C.T.
20	The Dark Sun, a study of Lawrence	Hough, Graham
21	The Love Ethics of Lawrence	Silk, M.
22	The Lonely Tower Studies in the Poetry of Yeats	Henna, T.R.
23	The Last Romantics	Hough, G.
24	The Wheel of Fire	Knight, G. Willson
25	The 19th Century Background	Basil Willey
26	The Great Tradition	Leavis, F.R
27	The Odes of Keats	Holloway, T. Camb
28	Tennyson	Ricks, C.
29	Tennyson: The Critical Heritage	Jump, J.D.
30	The Poetry of Browning	Drew, P.
31	Use of Poetry and Use of Criticism	Eliot, T.S.
32	20th Century Views	Abrahams, M.H.
33	The Romantics Image	Kermode, F.