Syllabus 2nd Semester

SEMESTER: II

Course No: 201: Poetry II (19th Century)
Unit 01: Wordsworth: Prelude BK I / Coleridge: ‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla
Khan’
Unit 02: Keats: ‘Fall of Hyperion’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, ‘Ode on Melancholy’ / Tennyson: In
Memoriam (selections)
Unit 03: Browning: ‘Andrea Del Sarto’, ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’; Hopkins: ‘Felix Randal’, ‘The
Windhover’, ‘I wake and feel’, ‘Thou art indeed Just, Lord’

Course No: 202: Drama II (19th and 20th Centuries)
Unit 01: Wilde: Importance of Being Earnest; Synge: Playboy of the Western World
Unit 02: Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral; Shaw: Saint. Joan
Unit 03: Harold Pinter: The Birthday Party; Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

Course No: 203: Fictional and Non-fictional Prose II (19th and 20th Century Texts)
Unit 01: Arnold: Culture and Anarchy—selections; Strachey: Eminent Victorians — selections
Unit 02: Conrad: Heart of Darkness; Lawrence: Sons and Lovers
Unit 03: Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse; James Joyce: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man;
Graham Greene: Brighton Rock [any two]

Course No: 204: Poetry III (19th & 20th Century Texts)
Unit 01: Yeats: ‘Byzantium’, ‘Sailing to Byzantium’, ‘Among School Children’, ‘A Coat’,
‘Easter 1916’ [any three]; Lawrence: ‘Snake’, ‘Bavarian Gentians’
Unit 02: Eliot: ‘Marina’, ‘Preludes’; Auden: ‘Musee des Beaux Arts’; Dylan Thomas: ‘A
Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London’
Unit 03: Louis MacNeice: ‘Meeting Point’, ‘Snow’; Larkin: ‘Whitsun Weddings’: Ted Hughes:
‘Thought – Fox’; Seamus Heaney: ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘Digging’