MIDNAPORE COLLEGE

(AUTONOMOUS)

MIDNAPORE

DEPARTMENTOF ENGLISH

FIRST SEMESTER

ENGPG- 101

BRITISH POETRY (MEDIEVAL TO PRE-ROMANTIC)

UNIT 1:

A) Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales*

OR The Nuns Priests Tale

B) Edmund Spenser: The Faerie Queene (Book-I) *

UNIT 2:

A) William Shakespeare: Sonnets(Selections)

B) John Donne: The Canonization, The Extasie

C) John Milton: Paradise Lost (Book-Iv)

UNIT 3:

A)Alexander Pope: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

B) William Blake: Songs of Innocence &Songs of

Experience

C) Introduction ii) The Lamb iii) The Tyger

SYLLABUS FOR P.G.

COURSE

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(25=10)Marks

3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

A) Winthrop Wetherbee: The Canterbury tales, Cambridge

University Press, London,2004

B) Edmund Spenser :The Faerie Queene, Orient Blackswan,

Hyderabad,2012

C) Stanley wells: Cambridge Compamnion to Shakespeare

Studies

D) Arthur Symons: William Blake, Booksway, Kolkata,2010

E) Kathleen Rasime: William Blake, Orient Longman, Kolkata,

1951

N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught

FIRST SEMESTER

ENGPG 102

BRITISH DRAMA (16TH- 19TH CENTURY)

UNIT: 01

A) Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus

B) William Shakespeare: King Lear

UNIT: 02

A) Ben Jonson: Everyman in His Humour

B) William Shakespeare: A Midsummer Nights Dream

UNIT: 03

A) William Congreve: The Way of the World

B) Richard Sheridan: The School for Scandal

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(25=10) Marks

3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

A) Stanley Wells: Cambridge Compamnion to Shakespeare

Studies

B) William Congreve: The Way of the World, Rama Brothers,

New Delhi, 2008

C) C.L. Barber: Shakespeares Festive Comedy,1959-1972

D) Stanley Greeblatt: Renaissance Self Fashioning,1980

N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught

FIRST SEMESTER

ENGPG 103

FICTIONAL & NON FICTIONAL PROSE(18TH& 19TH CENTURY)

UNIT: 01

A) Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe*OR Moll Flanders

B) Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Travels *

i) A Voyage to Brobdingnag (Part- II)

ii)A Voyage to the Country of Houyhnhnms (Part -IV)

OR

HenryFielding: Tom Jones

UNIT: 02

A) Charles Dickens:Hard Times*

OR

George Eliot: Middlemarch

B) Mary Shelley: Frankenstein

UNIT: 03

A) Joseph Addison: Sir Roger and Will Wimble

B) Mary Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of

Woman (Chapter-V)

C)Thomas De Quincey: The Knocking at the Door

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3(25=10) Marks

3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

A) Albert J Rivero: Moll Flanders, Norton Company, New York,

2004

B) Michael Shinagel: Robonson Crusue, New York, Norton

Company,1975

C) Dorothy Vanghent: Form and Function of English Novel

D) Arnold Kettle: An Introduction to English Novel(Two

volumes)

E) A.E. Baker: A History of English Novel(11 Volumes)

F) E. M. Foster : Aspects of the Novel

G) Cambridge Companion to the Eighteenth century Novel

N.B: 1) (*) Text Taught

FIRST SEMESTER

ENGPG 104

BRITISH POETRY( 19TH CENTURY)

UNIT:01

A)William Wordsworth: The Prelude(Book-I)

B)S.T.Coleridge: Kubla Khan & The Rime of the Ancient

Mariner

UNIT:02

A) John Keats: Introduction to the Fall of Hyperion , Ode To

Psyche, Ode on Melancholy

B) Alfred Lord Tennyson: In Memoriam (Selections)

UNIT:03

A) Robert Browning: Andrea del Sarto & Fra Lippo Lippi

B) Gerard Manley Hopkins: The Windhover, Felix Randal,

Thou Art Indeed Just Lord

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS

1) Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2) Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two fromeach unit, 1, 2, 3 25=10) Marks

3) Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED

A) John Middleton Murray: Keats and Shakespeare: A Study of

Keats Poetic Life, Oxford University Press, 1927

B) W. T. Young: Robert Browning: A selection of Poems, CUP,

London,1929

C) Harold Bloom: The Visionary Company

D) Lyton Strachey: Eminent Victorians

E) Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism

F) M.H.Abrams: The Mirror and the Lamp

G) Graham Hough: The Romantic Poets

H) C.M. Bowra: The Romantic Imagination

I) Octavio Paz: Children of the Mire

N.B:

1) (*)Text Taught

MIDNAPORE COLLEGE (AUTONOMOUS)

MIDNAPORE

DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH

SECOND SEMESTER

ENGPG- 201

BRITISH DRAMA (19th- 20th Century) UNIT 1 :

A) G. B. Shaw : Man And Superman* OR St. Joan

B) J. M. Synge :The Playboy of the Western World

UNIT 2 :

A) Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

B) T. S. Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral

UNIT 3 :

A) Harold Pinter :The Birthday Party

B) Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:- 1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (25=10) Marks

3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks

SYLLABUS FOR P.G.

COURSE

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-

A.C.Ward : Bernard Shaw

William Archer : English Dramatist Today

Raymond Williams : English Drama Form Ibsen to Eliot

John Russel Taylor :Harold Pinter

Martin Esslin : Pinter the Playwright

D.E.Jones : The Plays of T.S.Eliot

Grover Smith : T.S. Eliot : Poetry and Plays

N.B:

1) (*) Text Taught

SECOND SEMESTER

ENGPG - 202

FICTIONAL AND NON-FICTIONAL PROSE (19th- 20th Century)

UNIT 1 :

A) Thomas Hardy: Tess of the DUrbervilles* OR Bronte :

Jane Eyre

B) D. H. Lawrence : The Rainbow OR Sons and Lovers*

OR

Joseph Conrad: Lord Jim* OR The Secret Sharer

UNIT 2 :

A) Virginia Woolf : To the Lighthouse OR

Joyce : A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man*

UNIT 3 :

A) Matthew Arnold: Culture and Anarchy : Preface to Culture

and Anarchy, Sweetness and Light, Philistine & Barbarian,

Hellenism & Hebraism.

B) Walter Pater : Postscript (Appreciations) OR

Strachey: Eminent Victorians: Florence Nightingale *

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-

1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (25=10) Marks

3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-

Keith Sagar : The Art of D.H Lawrence

F.R Leavis : D.H. Lawrence, Novelist

Hugh Walker : Literature in the Victorian Era

H.C. Duffin : Thomas Hardy

F.B. Pinion : A Hardy Companion

J.Holloway : Hardys Major Fiction

Bernard Blackstone : Virginia Woolf

Robert Humphrey : Stream of Consciousness in the

Modern Novel

Albert J. Guerard : Conrad the Novelist

Norman Page : Conrad Companion

N.B:

1) (*) Text Taught

SECOND SEMESTER

ENGPG - 203

BRITISH POETRY (19th- 20th Century)

UNIT 1 :

W. B. YEATS: Byzantium, Sailing to Byzantium, Easter 1916,

Among School Children

D. H. Lawrence : Snake, Bavarian Gentians

UNIT 2 :

T. S. Eliot: The Wasteland

W. H. Auden: Musee des Beaux Arts

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn

UNIT 3 :

Philip Larkin : Whitsun Weddings

Ted Hughes: Crow Alights, Crows First Lesson (from The

Crow)

Semus Heaney: Death of a Naturalist, Digging

DISTRIBUTION OF MARKS:-

1. Candidates will be required to answer one long answer type

question out of two from each unit (310=30) Marks

2. Candidates will be required to answer Short Answer Type

Questions out of two from each unit, 1,2,3 (25=10) Marks

3. Internal Assessment 10 Marks

BOOKS RECOMMENDED:-

John Unterecker : A Readers Guide to W.B Yeats

A.Norman Jeffers : W.B Yeats : Man and Poet

Cleanth Brooks : Modern Poetry and the tradition

F.O. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S.El