Hello Readers!
Welcome to the page dedicated to the texts I studied in the Bachelor of Arts curriculum. All the book titles are classified as FY, SY, and TY B.A. Texts. Under that heading, genres of English literature are categorized, such as Poetry, Drama or Play, Novel, and Short Stories.
This syllabus was in effect during my undergraduate studies. 2015-2018.
First Year B.A. Texts - Heading: Click Here for Syllabus
- Non-Fiction Books/Essays
English Literature: An Introduction for Foreign Readers by R. J. Rees, Macmillan
Why We Study Literature?
Ballad and Epic
The Tragic Drama,
The Lyrical Poetry
The Novel
Satire
Comedy: The Light and The Dark,
The Short Story
The Essay
- Poetry
La Belle Dame Sans Mercy -John Keats
The Slave’s Dream -H. W. Longfellow
Yussouf -J. R. Lowell
The Old Woman -Joseph Campbell
I love All Beauteous Things -Robert Bridges
The Eagle -Lord Tennyson
A Fine Day -Michael Drayton
Fear No More -Shakespeare
She Walks in Beauty -Lord Byron
Virtue -George Herbert
Ozymandias -Shelley
Fame and Friendship -H. A. Dobson
The Daffodils -Wordsworth
The Fly -William Blake
The Character of a Happy Life -H. Wotton
Joy and Woe are Woven Fine -William Blake
The Soldier -Rupert Brook
Light -F. W. Bourdillon
How Sleep the Brave -W. Collins
Daybreak -H. W. Longfellow
- Drama or Play
All My Sons - Arthur Miller
Tughlaq - Girish Karnad
- Novels
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Moby Dick or The Whale - Herman Melville
- Short Stories
1. A Cup of Tea – Katherine Mansfield
2. The Postmaster- R. Tagore
3. How much Land does a Man Need?-Leo Tolstoy
4. A True Story –Mark Twain
5. Blow Up with Ship-Wilkie Collins
6. Mother -Somerset Maugham
Second Year B.A. Texts - Heading: Click Here for Syllabus
- Non-Fiction Books/Essays
The History of English Literature by William J. Long
- Poetry
From the Amoretti by Edmund Spenser
To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
Ode on Solitude: Alexander Pope
When We Two Parted: Lord Byron
Prayer Before Birth: Louise MacNeice
The Blessed Damozel: D. G. Rossetti
- Drama or Play
Othello - William Shakespeare
The Proposal - Anton Chekhov
The Boy Comes Home - A.A. Milne
The Monkey’s Paw - W.W. Jacobs
Reunion - W. St. John Taylor
- Novels
Kim - Rudyard Kipling
- Short Stories
The Trunk of Ganesha -Jayanata Mahapatra
The Tiger Smiled -Jim Corbett
The Sage of Tarungiri and Seven Old Seekers – Manoj Das
Third Year B.A. Texts - Heading: Click Here for Syllabus
- Non-Fiction Books/Essays
Iyenger K.R.S. Indian Writing In English, Sterling Pub. New Delhi, 2007
1. Introduction to Indian writing in English
2. Renaissance in India
3. Drama
4. The Novel
5. The New Poets
American Literature: The Essential Glossary, Stephen Matterson, Hodder Arnold, 2004
50 Ways to Improve Your Presentation Skills in English, Bob Dignen, Black Swan, 2007.
English and soft Skills, S.P. Dhavavel, Black Swan,2010
50 Ways to Improve Your Business English, Ken Taylor, Black Swan, 2006.
50 Ways to Improve Business English using the Internet, Eric Baber, BlackSwan, 2011.
Literary Criticism: A Reading, B. Das & J.M. Mohanty, Oxford University Press, 2000
1. Preface to the Plays of Shakespeare by S. Johnson
2. Function of Criticism at the Present Time by Matthew Arnold
3. The Function of Criticism by T.S. Eliot
4. The Nature of Criticism by Herbert Read
5. Literary Criticism and Philosophy by F. R. Leavis
6. The Imagination -I. A. Richards
7. Reality and Sincerity -F. R. Leavis
8. The Intentional Fallacy -W. K. Wimsatt
9. Myth, Fiction, and Displacement -Northrop Frye
10. From Work to Text -Roland Barthes
An Outline History of the English Language, F.T. Wood. Macmillan India Ltd., New Delhi. 2000.
1. The Origin of Language
2. The Descent of the English Language
3. The Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon)
4. The Middle English Period
5. The Renaissance and After
A Text Book of English Phonetics for Indian Students, T. Balasubramanian, MacMillan, Madras, 1981
1. The Air Stream Mechanism
2. The Organs of Speech
3. The classification and description of speech Sound: Consonants
4. The classification and description of speech Sound: Vowels
5. Phonology
6. The Syllable
- Poetry
1. A prayer for My Daughter -W. B. Yeats
2. Baby Running Barefoot - D.H. Lawrence
3. To The Indians Who Died in South Africa -T. S. Eliot
4. My Grandmother -Elizabeth Jennings
5. Each and All -R. W. Emerson
6. Compensation -R. W. Emerson
7. Friendship -H. D. Thoreau
8. Conscience - H. D. Thoreau
- Drama or Play
1. Ghashiram Kotwal - Vijay Tendulkar. Tr. Jayant Karve and Eleanor Zelliot.
2. The Hairy Ape - Eugenie O’Neill
- Novels
Far from the Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
The Namesake - Jhumpa Lahiri
Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
- Short Stories
An Anthology of Short Stories, Oxford University Press, 2000
1. The Nightingale And Rose - Oscar Wilde
2. Quality - John Galsworthy
3. Araby -James Joyce
4. The Black Cat -Edgar Allan Poe
5. I Want to Know Why -Sherwood Anderson
6. The Heathen -Jack London
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