Semester II

Proposed Syllabus of MA English Semester II, University of Gour Banga after minor
modifications of the existing syllabus.
Paper 8
English Poetry from Wordsworth to Keats
Full Marks: 50
Wordsworth
1. Prelude I (1850 ed.)
2. Lucy Poems
3. The Tables Turned
4. Nature and the Poet
5. Michael
Coleridge
1. Christabel
2. Kubla Khan
3. The Eolian Harp
4. Dejection, an Ode
5. Frost at Midnight
Shelley
1. Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
2. Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude
3. England in 1819
4. Adonais
5. Ozymandias of Egypt
Keats
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

To Autumn
Ode to Psyche
Ode on Indolence
La Belle Dame sans Mercy
The Eve of St. Agnes

Paper 9
English Prose from Blake to Newman

Full Marks: 50

Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (Introduction; Chapter I; Chapter II;
Chapter VSection I)
Hazlitt: The Essays
1. On a Sundial
2. On Nicknames
3. On Gusto

Newman:
1. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Learning
2. Knowledge Viewed in Relation to Religion
3. Knowledge its own End
Paper 10
English Novel from Jane Austen to George Eliot
Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
George Eliot: Middlemarch

Full Marks: 50

Paper 11
English literary Criticism from Wordsworth to Arnold

Full Marks: 50

Wordsworth: Preface to Lyrical Ballads

Coleridge: Biographia Literaria (Ch. 13, 14, 17)
Shelley: A Defence of Poetry
Arnold:
1. The Study of Poetry
2. The Function of Criticism at the Present Time
The Choice of Subjects in Poetry or Preface to Poems of 1853

Paper 12
English Poetry from Tennyson to Hopkins
Tennyson:
1. The Lady of Shalott
2. Break, Break, Break
3. Ulysses
4. Defence of Lucknow
5. Morte D Arthur
Browning:
1. Prospice
2. Porphyrias Lover
3. My Last Duchess
4. One Word More
5. The Bishop Orders his Tomb at St. Praxeds Church
Arnold:
1. Dover Beach
2. Thyrsis

Full Marks: 50

3. The Forsaken Merman

4. To Marguerite
5. Death of Sohrab
Hopkins:
1. The Windhover
2. Pied Beauty
3. Felix Randal
4. Thou Art Indeed Just Lord
5. Inversnaid
Paper 13
English Novel from Dickens to Wilde
Charles Dickens: Hard Times.
Henry James: The Portrait of a Lady
Thomas Hardy: The Mayor of Casterbridge
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray

Full Marks: 50

Paper 14
Internal Assessment
(To be conducted centrally)
Unit Test=50
Seminar=25
Viva-Voce=25
Instructions regarding question pattern and marks distribution
1. Papers 813 shall carry 50 marks each.
1. In each of these papers students shall answer 3 short essay type questions carrying 12
marks each (within 400 words) and 7 short type questions carrying 2 marks each (within
40 words).
3. In each of these papers, 8 short essay type and 12 short type questions shall be set with the
following options:
a. 2 short essay type questions with internal choice from each of the 4 units.
b. 3 short type questions from each of the 4 units.
1. In paper 14 students shall face by way of internal assessment:
a. One seminar carrying 25 marks.
b. One unit test carrying 50 marks.
c. a viva-voce examination carrying 25 marks.