PAPER -1Detailedstudy of a Literary age (19th Cent) The paper will cover the study of English Literature from 1798 to 1900 withspecial reference to the works of Wordsworth . Coleridge, Keats, Shelley .Tennyson Browning and Arnold, Dickens , George Eliot Thomas Hardy, Lamb,Hazlitt,Carlyle Ruskin , Pater. Candidates will be expected to show first hand knowledge of the works of theabove auhors.
They will also be expected to be acquainted with the main Literary trends ofthe period as well as the social and cultural background of the age.
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PAPER-II
This paper will require first hand knowledge of the texts prescribed and willbe designed to test the candidate's critical ability
1. Shakespeare Macbeth : Twelfth Night
2. Milton ParadiseLost Books I & II
3. Pope The Rape of the Lock
4. Wordsworth Lines Written near Tintern Abbey Ode on the Intimations ofImmorality from the Recollection of Early Childhood, Ode to Duty
5. Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice
6. Dickens Great Expectations
7. Hardy Tess of the Dubervilles
8. Shaw St. Joan
9. Yeats Sailing to Byzantium
A prayer for My Daughter .
10. T.S. Eliot The Wasteland