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Unit 1: Chaucer to Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
Shakespeare
John Donne
Andrew Marvell
Francis Bacon

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Christopher Marlowe
Thomas Middleton
John Webster
William Shakespeare

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The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Prothalamion
Sonnets (12,18,29,30,33,53,54,60,65,73,90,94,107,116,144)
A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning
To His Coy Mistress
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Ambition
Of Nobility
Dr.Faustus
The Changeling
The Duchess of Malfi
Twelfth Night
Henry IV Part I
Macbeth
The Tempest
Antony and Cleopatra

Unit 2 : Jacobean to Augustan Age

John Milton
John Dryden
Alexander Pope
Thomas Gray
Thompson

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William Collins
William Blake

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John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
Daniel Defoe
Addison and Steele

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Samuel Johnson
William Congreve
R.B.Sheridan

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Paradise Lost Book IX

Mac Flecnoe
An Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Spring
Autumn
Winter
Ode to Evening
A Poison Tree
The Tiger
The Lamb
Preface to the Fables
The Battle of the Books
Robinson Crusoe
The Spectator and the Coverly Papers (Essays 1-10 Macmillan
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Preface to Shakespeare
The Way of the World
The Rivals

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Goldsmith
Henry Fielding

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She Stoops to Conquer

Tom Jones

Wordsworth

Coleridge

P.B.Shelley
John Keats

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Byron
Charles Lamb

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Intimation Ode
Tintern Abbey
Kubla Khan
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
To a Skylark
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Vision of Judgement
Essays of Elia

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Unit 3 : Romantic Period

Wordsworth
Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Emily Bronte

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The South-Sea House

Dream Children : A Reverie
Christ Hospital Five and Thirty Years Ago
Oxford in the Vacation
All Fools Day

Preface to the Lyrical Ballads

The Heart of Midlothian
Pride and Prejudice
Wuthering Heights

Unit 4 : Romantic Period

Tennyson

Robert Browning

Matthew Arnold

D.G.Rossetti

Ulysses
The Lotus Eaters
My Last Duchess
Andrea Del Sarto
The Scholar Gipsy
Dover Beach
The Blessed Damozel

G.M.Hopkins

The Wreck of the Deutschland

Matthew Arnold
Oscar Wilde
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy

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The Study of Poetry

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The Importance of Being Earnest

Great Expectations
The Woodlanders

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Unit 5 : Modern and Contemporary Periods

W.B.Yeats
T.S.Eliot
W.H.Auden
Philip Larkin
C.B.Lewis
T.S.Eliot
E.M.Forster

G.B.Shaw
John Osborn
T.S.Eliot
D.H.Lawrence
William Golding
Joseph Conrad

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Sailing to Byzantium
The Waste Land
The Unknown Citizen
Church Going
Fern Hill

Tradition and the Individual Talent

(Selections from E.M.Forster.

Edited by R.Krishnamoorthy & Published by Macmillan).

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Notes on the English Character

My Wood
Hymn Before Action
Tolerance
What I Believe

Arms and the Man

Look Back in Anger
Murder in the Cathedral
The Rainbow
Lord of the Flies
Lord Jim

Unit 6 : American Literature

Emerson
Poe
Whitman
Emily Dickinson

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Robert Frost
Wallace Stevens
Emerson
Henry James
ONeill
Edward Albe
Hawthorne
Mark Twain
Ernest Hemingway
Faulkner
Alice Walker

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Brahma
The Raven
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloomd
Success is Counted Sweetest
I Tasted a Liquor Never Brewed
Because I Could not Stop for Death
A Narrow Fellow in the Grass
Mending Wall Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening

The Emperor of Ice-cream

The American Scholar

The Art of Fiction
The Hairy Ape
Whos Afraid of Viginia Woolfe
The Scarlet Letter
Huckleberry Finn
The Old Man and the Sea
The Sound and the Fury
Color Purple

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Unit 7 : Indian and English Literature

Toru Dutt

R.Parthasarathy

Sarojini Naidu
Kamala Dass
Nissim Ezekiel

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A.K.Ramanujan

Sri Aurobindho
Tagore
Girish Kamard
R.K.Narayan
Chaman Nahal
Deshpande
Arundathi Roy

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The Lotus
Our Casuarina Tree
Under Another Sky
A River Once
Indian Weavers
Introduction My Grandmothers House
Enterprise
Night of the Scorpion

Small Scale Reflections on a Great House

Obituary
The Renaissance in India
Post Office
Tughlaq
The Guide
Azadi
The Dark Holds No Terror
God of Small Things

Unit 8 : Language and Linguistics

Family of Indo-European Languages
Foreign Influences
Word Making
Change of Meaning
Spelling Reforms
Standard English
Morphology
Basic Sentence Patterns
IC Analysis
Structural Linguistics
T.G. Grammar
English Language Teaching
Translation
Semantics, Pragmatics and Discourse
Descriptions and classification of Consonants and Vowels
Accent
Intonation
Phonetic Transcription
Writing a research paper: Bibliography, abstract, documentation, etc.,
Mechanics of thesis writing

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Unit 9 : Criticism and Literary Theories

Aristotle
Dr.Johnson
T.S.Eliot
I.A.Richards
Northrop Frye
Lionel Trillin
Rolland Barthes
Wayne Booth
Edward Wilson
Derrida
Terry Eagleton
Elaine Showalter
Gayatri Spivak

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Poetics
Life of Milton
The Function of Criticism
Four Types of Meaning
The Archetypes of Literature
The Meaning of a Literary Idea
The Death of the Author
Telling and Showing
A Historical Interpretation of Literature
Structure, Sign ad Play in the Discourse of Human Sciences
Capitalism, Modernism and Post Modernism
Towards a Feminist Poetics
Imperialism and Sexual Difference

Unit 10 : Post Colonial Literature and European Literature in Translation

A.G.Smith

Margeret at Wood
P.K.Page
Wilfered Campbell
George Ryga
Margaret Lawrance
Ondaatje
Sir Thomas More
Moliere
Ibsen
Wole Soyinka
Chinua Achebe

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Ode on the Death of William Butler Yeats

Like an Old Proud King in a Parable.
Journey to the Interior
Adolescence
The Winter Lakes
The Ecstasy of Rita Joe

The Stone Angel

Running in the Family

Utopia
The Misanthropist
A Dolls House
The Lion and the Jewel
Things Fall Apart

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