Syllabus Semester II-English Literature (January-April 2018)

1. Short Stories:
a. The gift of Magi (O Henry)
b. The Country of the Blind (H.G. Wells)
c. Where love is, God is. (Leo Tolstoy)
d. The Goblins and the Grave Digger (Charles Dickens)
e. Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde)
f. The Verger (Somerset Maugham)
g. God Sees the Truth but Waits (Leo Tolstoy)
h. The Bet (Anton Chekhov)
i. After Twenty Years (O Henry)
2. Poetry:
a. On his Blindness (John Milton)
b. The Cloud (P.B Shelley)
c. A Psalm of Life (H.W. Longfellow)
d. If (Rudyard Kipling)
e. The Slave’s Dream (H.W. Longfellow)
f. Death be not Proud (John Donne)
g. On Valediction Forbidding Mourning (John Donne)
h. A Prayer for My Daughter (W.B. Yeats)
3. Essays:
a. Of Studies (Bacon)
b. Sir Roger at Home (Addison)
c. Dream Children- A Reverie (Charles Lamb)
d. On Saying Please (A.G. Gardiner)
e. Bores (E.V. Lucas)
4. Literary Works of Great Jurists:
a. M Hidyatullah- A judges Miscellany
i. Chapter- Law and Education
ii. Chapter- Lawyers- Born or made
b. Nani Palkhiwala- We, the people
i. Convocation Addresses
(1) The treason of the intellectual
(2) Work – The prerogative of intelligence
(3) Obedience to the unenforceable
5. Speeches:
a. The pleasure of books – William Lyon Phelps
b. Portia’s Speech on Mercy – William Shakespeare
c. All the world’s a stage – William Shakespeare
d. Polonious’ Advice to his son – William Shakespeare
e. Tryst with Destiny- Jawaharlal Nehru

Extra Readings:

i. Monk who sold his Ferrari- Robin Sharma

ii. Indomitable spirit – A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

Note-

(a) From the books A judges Miscellany and We, the people only above the mentioned
chapters are part of the syllabus.
(b) Only the above mentioned speeches from William Shakespeare’s plays are part of the
syllabus.