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English literature
(16th to 20th Century)
Unit-I Literary & Social Background
Study of the main literary trends and socio-cultural background from 16th to 20th Century.

Unit-II Poetry
John Donne -

•  The Canonization
•  A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
•  A Valediction : Of the Book
•  A Valediction : Of My Name
•  A Valediction : Of Weeping

Alexander Pope - The Rape of the Lock

• William Wordsworth Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey.
• Odeon Intimations of Immortality.
• Sonnet on Sonnet

S.T. Coleridge-

• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Ode to Dejection

P.B. Shelley-

• To A Skylark
• Ode to the West Wind
• The Indian Summer

John Keats-

• Ode on a Grecian Urn
• Ode to Autumn
• on first looking into Chapman’s Homer

Lord Tennyson-

• Crossing the Bar
• Prologue (In Memorium)
• The Lotus Eaters.

Robert Browning-

• Rabbi Ben Ezra
• My Last Duchess
• Prospice.

T.S. Eliot- The Waste Land
W.B. Yeats-

• The Second Coming
• Sailing to Byzantium
• Prayer for my Daughter

W.H. Auden-

• In Memory of W.B. Yeats
• The Unknown Citizen
• Petition

Philip Larkin-

• Church Going
• Poetry of Departures
• Reasons for Attendance.

Unit-III Drama
William Shakespeare-

• The Tempest
• Macbeth
• Richard II
• Twelfth Night

John Webster-Duchess of Malfi
Ben Jonson-Volpone
Goldsmith-She Stoops to Conquer
G.B. Shaw-Saint Joan
T.S.Eliot-The Family Reunion
Harold Pinter-The Birthday Party
S.Beckett-Waiting for Godot
John Osborne-Look Back in Anger
Unit-IV Novel
Henry Fielding-Tom Jones
Jane Austen-Pride and Prejudice
Charles Dickens-D Great Expectations.
Thomas Hardy-Hard Times
Virginia Woolf-Mrs. Dalloway.
E.M. Forster-A Passage to India
Graham Greene-Power and the Glory
William Golding-D Lord of the Flies
D.H. Lawrence-The Rainbow
Unit-V Prose
Francis Bacon-

• Of Marriage and Single Life
• Of Truth.

Addison and Steele-

• Of The Club.
• Sir Roger At Home
• Disappointment In Love

Charles Lamb-

• Dream Children ‘A Reverie’
• Poor Relations
• In Praise of Chimney Sweepers

George Orwell-Notes on Nationalism
Walter Pater-On Style
Bertrand Russell- Unpopular Essays- Ideas that have
Helped Mankind,
Ideas that have Harmed Mankind
Unit-VI Literary Criticism
Aristotle-The Poetics
Philip Sidney-An Apology for Poetry
W. Wordsworth-Preface to the Lyrical Ballads.
Matthew Arnold-Function of Criticism at Present Time
T.S. Eliot-Tradition and the Individual Talent.
I.A. Richards-Principles of Literary Criticism.
F.R. Leavis-The Great Tradition