Paper – I
The candidate shall be required to answer five questions in all selecting at least one from
each Group.
Group-A
- Shakespeare King: Lear OR The Tempest
- Marlowe: Dr Faustus
- John Webster: The Duchess of Malfi
- John Donne:
“The Good Morrow”, “Canonization”, “Extasie”, “A Valediction : Forbidding
Mourning”, “The Sunne Rising”, “Death, Be Not Proud”, - John Milton: Paradise Lost Bks I, II
- Alexander Pope: Rape of the Lock
- William Wordsworth:
“Daffodils”, “Tintern Abbey”, “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”, “Three Years
She Grew”, “She Dwelt Among Untrodden Ways”, “Upon Westminster Bridge”.
Group-B
- Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels
- Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice
- Charles Dickens: Hard Times
- Thomas Hardy: Tess of the D’ Urbervilles
- George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss.
Paper II
Group-A
- W.B.Yeats:
“Easter 1916”, “The Second Coming”, “A Prayer for My Daughter”, “Sailing to
Byzantium”, “Among School Children”, “Leda and the Swan”, “The Lake Isle of
Innisfree” - T .S.Eliot: The Waste Land OR Four Quartets
- Indian Poets:
Kamala Das : “My Grand Mother’s House”, “The Looking Glass”
Nissim Ezekiel : “Enterprise”, “Night of the Scorpion”
Jayanta Mahapatra : “The Whore House in a Calcutta Street”, “Lost”
R.Parthasarathy : “from Trial”, “from Home Coming”
A K Ramanujam : “Love Poem for a Wife I”, “A River” - John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
- Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
- Henrik Ibsen : A Doll’s House
- August Strindberg : Father
Group-B
8. James Joyce : Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
9. E M Forster : A Passage to India
10. Gopinath Mohanty : The Ancestor (translation Arun K Mohanty. Published by Central Sahitya Akademi)
11. Chinua Achebe : Things Fall Apart
12. V.S. Naipaul : A House for Mr. Biswas
