READING LIST

William Shakespeare: o King Lear o The Tempest John Donne: o Canonization o Death be not proud o The Good Morrow o On his Mistress going to bed o The Relic John Milton: Paradise Lost, I, II, IV, IX Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock William Wordsworth: o Ode on Intimations of Immortality o Tintern Abbey o Three years she grew o She dwelt among untrodden ways o Michael o Resolution and Independence o The World is too much with us o Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour o Upon Westminster Bridge. Alfred Tennyson: In Memoriam Henrik Ibsen: A Dolls House Section B Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Travels Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Henry Fielding: Tom Jones Charles Dickens: Hard Times George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Thomas Hardy: Tess of the dUrbervilles Mark Twain: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Paper II
The required text is listed below. Adequate knowledge of the following topics and movements is also required: Modernism; Poets of the Thirties; The stream-of-consciousness Novel; Absurd Drama; Colonialism and Post-Colonialism; IndianWriting in English; Marxist, Psychoanalytical and Feminist approaches to literature; Post-Modernism.

Section A
William Butler Yeats: o Easter 1916 o The Second Coming o A Prayer for my daughter. o Sailing to Byzantium. o The Tower. o Among School Children. o Leda and the Swan.

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Meru Lapis Lazuli The Second Coming Byzantium. T.S. Eliot: The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock Journey of the Magi. Burnt Norton.

W.H. Auden: o Partition o Musee des Beaux Arts o in Memory of W.B. Yeats o Lay your sleeping head, my love o The Unknown Citizen o Consider o Mundus Et Infans o The Shield of Achilles o September 1, 1939 o Petition. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot Philip Larkin: o Next o Please o Deceptions o Afternoons o Days o Mr. Bleaney A.K. Ramanujan: o Looking for a Causim on a Swing o A River o Of Mothers, among other Things o Love Poem for a Wife 1 o Samll-Scale Reflections on a Great House o Obituary

NOTE: All these poems are available in the anthology Ten Twentieth Century Indian Poets, edited by R. Parthasarthy, published by Oxford University Press, New Delhi).

Section B
Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man D.H. Lawrence: Sons and Lovers E.M. Forster: A Passage to India Virginia Woolf: Mrs Dalloway Raja Rao: Kanthapura V.S. Naipal: A House for Mr. Biswas