British Literature III, 2nd Year 3rd Semester, B.A English Literature, University of Madras, Syllabus w.e.f. 2020 -2021

 University of Madras

Syllabus with effect from 2020-2021

 BA English Literature

 [2^nd Year, 3^rd Semester]

British Literature - III

UNIT 1: Poetry (Detailed)

1.1 “Ulyssess” Alfred Tennyson

1.2 “My Last Duchess” Robert Browning

1.3 “Dover Beach” Mathew Arnold

1.4 “Easter 1916” W.B. Yeats

1.5 “Journey of the Magi” T.S.Eliot

1.6 “God’s Grandeur G.M. Hopkins

1.7 “The Unknown Citizen” W.H. Auden

1.8 “The Thought-Fox” Ted Hughes

 

UNIT 2: Prose

2.1“An Apology for Idlers” R.L.Stevenson

2.2 “On Heroes, Hero Worship and the Heroic in History Lecture III-Shakespeare” Thomas Carlyle

2.3 Pickwick Papers : Chapters 1 & 2 Charles Dickens

2.4 “You and the Atom Bomb” George Orwell

 

UNIT 3: Drama

3.1 Importance of Being Ernest Oscar Wilde

 

UNIT 4: Short Story

4.1 “The Dead” James Joyce

4.2 “A Haunted House” Virginia Woolf

4.3 “The Facts of Life” Somerset Maugham

 

UNIT 5: Fiction

      5.1 Far from the Madding Crowd Thomas Hardy