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PAPER : IV
MODERN LITERATURE: II (1700-1850)

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 SYLLABUS
M.A. ENGLISH, Previous
PAPER-IV
Paper IV - Modern Literature II (1700-1850)
Detailed Study:
1. Keats : Ode to a Nightingale; Ode on a Grecian Urn;
Ode to Autumn; Ode to Melancholy;
Ode to Psyche.
2. Wordsworth : The Prelude - Book - I
3. Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
4. Sheridan : The Rivals
Non-detailed Study
5. Pope : The Rape of the Lock
6. Coleridge : Rime of the Ancient Mariner
7. Shelle : Adonais
8. Lamb : Essays of Elia - First Series
9. Austen : Emma
10. Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer
UNIT - I : Annotation Passages from 1, 2, 3 & 4.
UNIT - II : Essay Questions on 1,2,3,5,6 & 7.
UNIT - III : Essay Questions on 3, 8, & 9.
UNIT - IV : Essay Questions on 4 & 10
UNIT - V : Questions (essay/short notes) on background, genre, etc.

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 CONTENTS
S.No. Lesson Page No.

1. Background :THE AGE OF POPE (1700 - 1744) 1

2. Background: JOHNSON AND HIS CIRCLE (1700 - 1850) 8
3. ROMANTIC AGE: (SOCIAL BACKGROUND) 13
4. KEATS 22
5. JOHN KEATS 32
6. ODE ON8 A GRECIAN URN 44
7. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 51
8. WILLIAM WORDSWORTH - THE PRELUDE BOOK - I 63
9. PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE - SAMUEL JOHNSON 69
10. PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE - Dr. JOHNSON 93
11. THE RIVALS - SHERIDAN 109
12. THE RIVALS - SHERIDAN 145
13. THE RIVALS - AN APPRECIATION 153
14. Background: THE RAPE OF THE LOCK - ALEXANDER POPE 159
15. THE RAPEOFTHE LOCK-ALEXANDER POPE 172
16. Background: THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER 176
17. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER - COLERIDGE 189
18. ADONAIS - P.B. SHELLEY 197
19. ADONAIS - SHELLEY 202
20. ESSAYS OF EllA - CHARLES LAMB 214
21. ESSAYS OF EllA - CHARLES LAMB 220
22. EMMA - JANE AUSTEN 226
23. SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER - OLIVER GOLDSMITH 231
24. Background: THE ROMANTIC PERIOD 264
25. THE ODES - JOHN KEATS 269
26. THE PRELUDE-I - WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 286
27. THE RAPEOFTHELOCK-ALEXANDER POPE 291
28. THE RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER - COLERIDGE 294
29. ADONAIS - SHELLEY 297
30. EMMA - JANE AUSTEN 301

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