Semester 4

Syllabus for B.A English Honours

Core Course 8 - CC8

BRITISH LITERATURE: 18TH CENTURY 

Unit 1

 History of the British Novel and Poetry of the 18th century.—Neo-Classical Age- Age of Transition, 

Precursors of the Romantic Revival, Rise of the Novel-Major novelists 

Unit 2 

 Henry Fielding: Tom Jones

Unit 3 

 Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels (Books I and II) 

Unit 4

 Samuel Johnson London 

 Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Core Course 9 - CC9

BRITISH ROMANTIC LITERATURE

Unit 1 

 History of the British Romantic Literature: French Revolution and its impact on 

 literature ( prose and poetry) of the time.

Unit2

 William Blake The Lamb (The Songs of Innocence), The Tyger (The Songs of Experience) 

 Robert Burns: A Bard’s Epitaph, Scots Wha Hae

Unit 3

 William Wordsworth Tintern Abbey,

 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Kubla Khan

Unit 4

 Lord George Gordon Noel Byron Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–40

 Percy Bysshe Shelley Ode to the West Wind

 John Keats Ode to Autumn

Core Course 10 - CC10

BRITISH LITERATURE: 19TH CENTURY

Theory: 75 Lectures; Tutorial:15 Lectures

Unit 1. 

 History of the 19th century British Literature: Fiction including the women novelists, and Poetry 

including the Pre-Raphaelite Poetry

Unit 2. 

 Jane Austen Pride and Prejudice

Unit 3

 Charles Dickens Hard Times

Unit 4. 

 Alfred Tennyson Ulysses 

 Robert Browning, My Last Duchess, Fra Lippo Lippi

 Christina Rossetti ‘The Goblin Market’