ENGLISH
The syllabus consists of two papers,
designed to test a first-hand and critical reading of texts prescribed from the
following periods in English Literature: Paper I: 1600-1900 and Paper II : 1900-1990.
There will be two compulsory questions in each paper : a) A short-notes
question related to the topics for general study, and b) A critical analysis of
UNSEEN passages both in prose and verse.
PAPER-I
Answers must be written in English.
Texts for detailed study are listed
below.
Candidates will also be required to
show adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements :
The Renaissance : Elizabethan and
Jacobean Drama; Metaphysical Poetry; The Epic and the Mock-epic; Neoclassicism;
Satire; The Romantic Movement; The Rise of the Novel; The Victorian Age.
Section-A
1. William Shakespeare : King
Lear and The Tempest.
2. John Donne. The following poems :
- Canonization;
- Death be not proud;
- The Good Morrow;
- On his Mistress going to bed;
- The Relic;
3. John Milton : Paradise
Lost, I, II, IV, IX
4. Alexander Pope. The Rape of
the Lock.
5. William Wordsworth. The following
poems:
- Ode on Intimations of Immortality.
- Tintern Abbey.
- Three years she grew.
- She dwelt among untrodden ways.
- Michael.
- Resolution and Independence
- The World is too much with us.
- Milton
- Upon Westminster Bridge
6. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam.
7. Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House.
Section-B
1. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver’s
Travels.
2. Jane Austen. Pride and
Prejudice.
3. Henry Fielding. Tom Jones.
4. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
5. George Eliot. The Mill on the
Floss.
6. Thomas Hardy. Tess of the
d’Urbervilles.
7. Mark Twain. The Adventures of
Huckleberry Finn.
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