Semester 2

Syllabus for B.A English honours students according to CBCS pattern under Ranchi University.

CORE - III

INDIAN WRITING IN ENGLISHg

1. History Of Indian Writing In English: Novel, Prose, Poetry
2. Swami and friends by R.K.Narayana
3. To India: My Native Land by HLV Derozio
4. The Orphan Girl
5. An introduction by Kamala Das
6. My grandmother's house by Kamala Das
7. Enterprise by Nissim Ezekiel
8. The Night Of The Scorpion by Nissim Ezekiel
9. Dawn At Puri by Jayanta Mahapatra
10. Evening Landscape By The River by Jayanta Mahapatra
11. Two Lady Rams by Mulk Raj Anand
12. The Free Radio by Salman Rushdie
13. Swimming Lesson by Rohinton Mistry
14. The Intrusion by Shashi Deshpande

Core Course 4 - CC4

BRITISH POETRY & DRAMA 

Unit 1
 History of the British Poetry and Drama from 14th to the 17th centuries—The Age of Chaucer,
Elizabethan Age, Jacobean Age- Cavalier lyricists, Metaphysical poets
Unit 2
 Geoffrey Chaucer Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Edmund Spenser Selections from Amoretti: Sonnet LXVII ‘Like as a huntsman...’ Sonnet LVII
‘Sweet warrior...’
John Donne ‘The Sunne Rising’ ‘Hymn to God the Father’ ‘Valediction: Forbidding Mourning’
Unit 3
. Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Unit 4
. William Shakespeare: Macbeth

Essays