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LIST OF CONTENTS

Paper I – Drama

No.   Name of the Play                        Written By
1.      King Lear                                     William Shakespeare 
       
2.      Hamlet                                                - do -
3.     Antony & Cleopatra                           - do -
4.     MACBETH                                  - do -
5.     Twelfth Night                                      - do -
6.     MERCHANT OF VENICE                                             - do-

7.     Dr. Faustus                                   Christopher Marlow

8.     The Al-Chemist                            Ben Jonson

9.     The Way of the World                William Congreve

10.     Heart Break House                     George Bernard Shaw

Paper II – Poetry

No.     Name of the Poem                                          Poet
1.        The  Canterbury Tales                          Geoffrey Chaucer
2.        Faerie Queen                                          Edmund Spenser
3.        Donne’s Poetry                                            John Donne
4.        Paradise Lost                                                John Milton
5.        Absalom & Achhitophel                             John Dryden
6.        The Rape  of the Locke                               Alexander Pope
7.        Songs of Innocence & Experience            William Blake.

                                           PAPER  III

FICTION    (ORIGIN TO 1900) 

1. Defoe                                 Robinson Crusoe

2. Fielding                             Joseph Andrews

3. Austen Jane                       PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

4. Thackeray                         Vanity Fair

5. Dickens                             DAVID COPERFIELD

6. Bronte, E.                   Wuthering heights

7. Eliot,                           George Adam Bede

8. Hardy,                     Thomas Tess of the D’urbervilles

9. James,                            Henry Portrait of a Lady

  PAPER  IV

LITERARY CRITICISM

Section – A

1. Aristotle        Poetics (ed. By L.J. Potts or

                                A.H. Fyfe or C.H. Butcher)

2. Sidney                        Defence of Poetry

3. Dryden            Essay of Dramatic Poesie
4. Johnson            Preface to Shakespeare

Section – B

5. Wordsworth Preface to Lyrical Ballads

6. Coleridge Biographia Literaria

7. Mathew Arnold The Function of Criticism; The Study of

Poetry; Essays on Wordsworth and Lord Byron, The Literary Influence of the Academics

8. Eliot, T. S. Tradition and Individual Talent; Meta-

Physical Poets; Eighteenth Century Poetry, Hamlet, Homage to Dryden.

9. Leavis, F. R. Keats (Revaluation), The Irony of Swift

 (The Common Pursuit).


Paper V

 The History of English Literature FROM RENAISSANCE TO 1939

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