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Unit I : Social History of England
1. Medieval Period to Restoration
a) Feudalism
b) Church during the age of Chaucer
c) Monasteries
d) Renaissance
e) Reformation
f) The Puritan War
g) Colonial Expansion
h) Social Life during the Restoration Period
2. The Romantic Period to the Modern Age
a) American War of Independence
b) French Revolution
c) Agriculture Revolution
d) Industrial Revolution
e) Reform Bills
f) Victorian England : Issues and Problems
g) Reform Bills
h) Colonial Expansions of Britain
i) Pre-war and post-war Britain
j) Labour Movement
k) Welfare State.

Unit II : History of English Literature
1. Chaucer to Renaissance
a) Beginnings of Drama
b) Shakespeare and his Contemporaries
c) Elizabethan Prose and Poetry
2. Milton to the Eighteenth Century
a) Milton
b) Restoration Drama
c) Poetry during the Restoration Period
d) Contributions of Dryden & Pope
e) Periodical Essay
f) Beginnings of the Novel
g) Dr. Johnson
h) Goldsmith
i) Precursors to the Romantic Movement
3. The Romantic Period to the Modern Age
a) The Great Romantics: Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, Byron and Coleridge
b) Charles Lamb and Wiliam Hazlitt
c) Victorian Prose, Poetry and Novel
d) Pre-war Literature
e) The Movement Poets
f) Georgian Poetry
g) Eliot, Yeats, Auden,
h) Trends in Modern Poetry
i) Trends in Modern English Novel.
j) Development of the Short Story

Unit III : British Literature
POETRY
John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I
The following selections from THE WINGED WORD Edited by David Green
(Macmillan, Madras)
1) Shakespeare, Sonnet No.60
2) John Donne. ‘A Hymn to God the Father’
3) John Dryden, ‘A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day’
4) Alexander Pope, from ‘An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot’
5) Thomas Gray, ‘Hymn to adversity’
6) William Wordsworth, ‘Tintern Abbey’
7) P.B. Shelly, ‘Hymn to intellectual Beauty’
8) John Keats, ‘Bright Star’.
9) John Keats. ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
10) Elizabeth Barret Browning, ‘How Do I Love Thee?’
11) Alfred, Lord Tennyson, ‘Break, break, break’
12) Mathew Arnold, ‘Shakespeare’
13) D.G. Rossetti, ‘The Blessed Damozel’
14) A.C. Swinburne, ‘Before the Beginning of the Year’
15) G.M. Hopkins. ‘God’s Grandeur’
16) Robert Bridges, ‘Nightingales’
17) Francis Thompson. ‘The Hound of Heaven’
18) W.B. Yeats. ‘Easter 1916’
19) T.S. Eliot, ‘Preludes’
20) Robert Graves, ‘Warning to Children’
21) W.H. Auden, ‘The Unknown Citizen’
22) Philip Larkin. ‘Wants’
PROSE
1) Bacon, ‘Of Truth’
2) Johnson, Preface to Shakespeare
3) Addison & Steele - Coverley Papers (Essays 1,2 & 3)
4) Lamb, ‘Dream Children’
5) Hazlitt, ‘Going on a Journey’
6) Arnold, ‘Study of Poetry’
7) Elliot, ‘Tradition and Individual Talent’
8) Orwell, ‘Shooting an Elephant’
9) Chesterton, ‘On Running after One’s Hat’
DRAMA
1) Christopher Marlowe, Edward II
2) Ben Jonson, Volpone
3) R.B. Sheridan, The School For Scandal
4) Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion
5) Oscar, Wilde, The Importance Of Being Earnest
6) J. Osborne, Look Back In Anger
FICTION
1) Jane Austen, Price And Prejudice
2) Walter Scott, Kenilworth
3) Charles Dickens, Hard Times
4) Goldsmith, The Vicar of the Wakefield
5) Joseph Conrad, Lord Jim
6) D.H. Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

Unit IV : Shakespeare
1) Twelfth Night
2) Macbeth
3) Henry V
4) The Tempest

Unit V : American Literature
POETRY
The following poems from American Literature: An Anthology of Poems Edited by C.
Subbian (Emerald, Madras)
1) Emerson, ‘Hamatreya’
2) Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Raven’
3) Robert Frost, ‘The Road not Taken’
4) Robinson Jeffers, ‘Science’
5) Wallace Stevens, ‘Anecdote of the Jar’
6) Theodore Roethke, ‘The Meadow Mouse’
7) Emily Dickinson, ‘Wait Till the Majesty of Death’
8) E.A. Robinson, ‘Reuben Bright’
9) Robert Frost. ‘Mending Wall’
10) Carl Sandburg. ‘Chicago’
11) John Crowe Ransome, ‘Blue Girls’
12) Archibald Macleish, ‘Ars Poetica’
PROSE
1) Emerson, ‘Shakespeare : Or the Poet’
2) Thoreau, ‘Civil Disobediance’
3) Edgar Allan Poe, ‘The Philosophy of Composition’.
4) Abraham Lincoln, ‘Gettysberg Speech’.
5) Martin Luther King Jr, ‘I Have a Dream’
DRAMA
1) Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman.
2) Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie.
FICTION
1) Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter
2) Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea.

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