National University
Syllabus for M.A. Part-1
Subject: English
Distribution of Marks
1. Explanation 4x5 marks=20 marks
2. Question 4x20 marks=80
marks
a. Romantic and Victorian Poetry-100 marks
1. W.Wordsworth : Tintern abbey, Sonnet: The world is too much with us ,
it is a beauteous evening, Milton
2. S.T.Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner
3. P.B.Shelley: Ode to the west wind
4. J.Keats : Ode to the Nightingale
5. A. Tennyson: Ulysses, Tithnus
6. R.Browning: My Last Duchess
7. M.Arnold: Dover Beach
b. Drama-100 marks
1. Sophocles : Oedipus Rex
2. C.Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
3. W.Shakespeare: As you like it, Macbeth
4. Goldsmit : She Stoops to Conquer
c. Intorduction to Prose ( Fiction & Non-Fiction ) 100 marks
1. Bacon : Of Studies, Of Marriage and Single Life,
Of Truth
2. Addison: Sir Roger at Church
3. J.Swift : Gulliver’s Travels
4. G.Orwell: Shooting an Elephant
Short Sotries
1. S. Maugham : The Ant and the Grasshopper
2. Allan poe: The Tell-Tale Heart
Novel
1. J.Austen : Pride and Prejudice