English Literature Syllabus: Paper-1
Section A
| Poets | Poems |
|---|---|
| William Shakespeare | King Lear and The Tempest |
| John Donne. The following poems | Death be not proud Canonization The Good Morrow The Relic On his Mistress going to bed |
| John Milton | Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX |
| Alexander Pope | The Rape of the Lock |
| William Wordsworth: The following poems: | Tintern Abbey Odeon Intimations of Immortality. Three years she grew Michael She dwelt among untrodden ways Independence and Resolution The World is too much with us Upon Westminster Bridge Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour |
| Alfred Tennyson | In Memoriam |
| Henrik Ibsen | A Doll’s House |
Section B
| Novelists | Novels |
|---|---|
| Jonathan Swift | Gulliver’s Travels. |
| Jane Austen | Prejudice and Pride |
| Charles Dickens | Hard Times |
| Henry Fielding | Tom Jones |
| Thomas Hardy | Tess of the d’Urbervilles |
| George Eliot | The Mill on the Floss |
| Mark Twain | The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn |
English Literature Syllabus: Paper-2
Candidates have to show sufficient knowledge of the following movements and topics:
Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; Absurd Drama; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Post-Colonialism and Colonialism; Marxist, Indian Writing in English; Feminist and Psychoanalytical approaches to literature; Post-Modernism.
Section A
| Poets | Poems |
|---|---|
| William Butler Yeats: | Easter 1916 A Prayer for my daughter The Second Coming Sailing to Byzantium Among School Children The Tower Meru Leda and the Swan Lapis Lazuli |
| T.S. Eliot: | Journey of the Magi Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock Burnt Norton |
| W.H. Auden: | Musee des Beaux-Arts Partition in Memory of W.B. Yeats The Unknown Citizen Lay your sleeping head, my love Mundus Et Infans Consider September 1, 1939 The Shield of Achilles Petition |
| John Osborne | Look Back in Anger |
| Samuel Beckett | Waiting for Godot |
| Philip Larkin: | Next Please Deceptions Afternoons Days Mr. Bleaney |
| A.K. Ramanujan: | A River Looking for a Causim on a Swing Love Poem for a Wife 1 Of Mothers, among other Things Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House Obituary |
Section B
| Novelist | Novels |
|---|---|
| James Joyce | Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man |
| Joseph Conrad | Lord Jim |
| D.H. Lawrence | Lovers and Sons |
| E.M. Forster | A Passage to India |
| Virginia Woolf | Mrs Dalloway |
| Raja Rao | Kanthapura |
| V.S. Naipaul | A House for Mr Biswas |