William Shakespeare :(a) Sonnet 29: “When in disgrace with fortune and men’s eyes” (b) Sonnet 138 “When my love swears that she is made of truth” John Done: “Canonization” John Milton: Paradise Lost (Satan’s Speech ) John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, Lines 150-197. (False Achitophel). Alexander Pope: “Essay on Man” (Lines 1-18) William Blake: The Nurse’s Song William Wordsworth: (a) “Tintern Abbey”, (b) “The World is too much with us” Percy B. Shelley: (a) “Ode to the West Wind” (b) “ A Lament” John Keats: (a) “Ode to a Nightingale”, (b) “ La Belle dame sans merci” Sarojini Naidu: The Flute Player of Brindaban Toru Dutt:” Baughmaree” 12. Rabindra Nath Tagore: From Gitanjali : (a) 11th, Leave the Chanting, (b) 12th Fruit Gathering. 13. Nissim Ezikiel: “Background”, “Casually” 14. Frost: “ Stopping by the Woods” 15. Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain!” 16. Alfred Lord Tennyson: (a) “Break, Break, Break” ; (b) “ Ulysses” 17. Robert Browning: (a) “ My Last Duchess” ; (b) “Prospice” 18. Matthew Arnold: (a) “Dover Beach”; (b) “ Memorial Verses” 19. Thomas Hardy: (a) “ The Darkling Thrush”; (b) “ The Voice” 20. Gerard Manley Hopkins: (a) “Pied Beauty” (b) “Thou Art Indeed Just Lord . . ” 21. W. B. Yeats: (a) “The Second Coming” ; (b) “ Prayer for My Daughter” 22. T. S. Eliot: “Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” 23. W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats” 24. Adil Jussawala: “Sea Breeze, Bombay” 25. Kamla Das: “An Introduction” 26. Keki N. Daruwalla: “Ghagra in Spate” 27. Derek Walcott (West Indian): “A Far Cry From Africa” 28. Wole Soyinka (Nigerian): “Dragonfly at My Window Pane” 29. Amiri Baraka (African-American): “Wise I” 30. Judith Wright (Australian): “Bora Ring” 31. A. D. Hope (Australia): “Australia” 32. Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada): “Letters and Other Worlds” 33. Eunice de Souza (India): “Autobiographical” 34. Agha Shahid Ali (India): “Postcard from Kashmir” and “A Lost Memory of Delhi” 35. A. K. Ramanujan (India) “Love Poem for a Wife I” 36. Arun Kolatkar (India) “The Priest’s Son” and “The Butterfly” 37. Sylvia Plath (America): “Mirror” and “Daddy” 38. Gwendolyn Brooks (America): “The Lovers of the Poor” 39. Emily Dickinson (America): “After Great Pain, A Former Feeling Comes” 40. Sherman Alexie (America): “On the Amtrak from Boston to New York City” 41. Lorna Dee Cervantes (America): “Refugee Ship” 42. Practical Criticism : There will be multiple choice questions (MCQs) based on unseen passages of prose and B. A. Part III: English Literature 43.DRAMA : George Bernard Shaw: Arms and the Man. Mahesh Dattani: Where There’s a Will The following plays are prescribed: William Shakespeare: Macbeth William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral Eugene O’Neill: Desire Under the Elms Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party Girish Karnad: Hayavadana |