syllabus M.A. English Part-I

M.A. (English) Part I Examination
Appendix ‘A’

Paper I (Classical Poetry) 100

Paper II (Drama) 100

Paper III (Novel) 100

Paper IV (Prose) 100

Paper V (American Literature) 100

Total 500 

Appendix ‘B’
(syllabus AND COURSES OF READING)


Paper I: (Classical Poetry)

1.Chaucer The Prologue

2.Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX

3.Donne Love/Divine Poems

4. Pope The Rape of the Lock.

5.Wyatt The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor,
Whose List to Hunt, Madam Withouen Many Words,
They Flee from Me. Is it Possible Forget Not Yet,
What should I say Stand who so list.

6. Surrey My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love,
That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought,
So Cruel Prison,
Wyatt Resteth Here. 


Paper II: (Drama)

1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex

2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus

3. Shakespeare Othello
The Winter’s Tale

4. Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest

Paper III: (Novel)

1. Trollope Barchester Towers

2. Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice

3. G. Eliot Adam Bede

4. Dickens A Tale of Two Cities

5. Hardy The Return of the Native

Paper IV: (Prose)
1. Bacon Essays: Of Truth Of Death Of Revenge Of Adversities Of Simulation and Dissimulation Of Parents and Children Of Great Place Of Nobilitie Of Superstition Of Friendship Of Ambition Of Studies

2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels

3. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays

4. Edward Said Only the introduction to the book entitled “Culture and Imperialism”

5. Seamus Heaney Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry” from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry

Paper V: (American Literature) Poetry

1. Adrienne Rich Diving into the Wreck Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers Final Notation Gabriel

2. Sylvia Plath Ariel Morning Song Poppies in October The Bee Meeting The Arrival of the Bee Box Your

3. Richard Wilbur Still Citizen Sparrow After the last Bulletin Marginalia

4. John Ashbury Melodic Train Painter Drama

1. O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the First of the Trilogy which is titled
‘The Home Coming’ is included in the M.A. Syllabus)

2. Miller The Crucible Novel 1. Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls 2. Toni Morrison Jazz