M.A. English Part-I & II Past Paper Last 5 Years . 
Paper I (Classical Poetry) ------100
Paper II (Drama) ---------------100
Paper III (Novel) ---------------100
Paper IV (Prose) ----------------100
Paper V (American Literature)--100

(SYLLABI AND COURSES OF READING)

Paper I: (Classical Poetry)
1. Chaucer The Prologue
2. Milton Paradise Lost Books I & IX
3. Donne Love/Divine Poems
4. Pope The Rape of the Lock.
5. Wyatt 

The Long Love That in My Thought Doth Harbor,
Whose List to Hunt,
Madam Without Many Words,
They Flee from Me.
Is it Possible Forget Not Yet,
What should I say Stand who so list.

6. Surrey 

My Friend the Things That Do Attain Love,
That Doth Reign and Live Within My Thought,
So Cruel Prison,
Wyatt Pretest Here.

Paper II: (Drama)

1. Sophocles Oedipus Rex
2. Marlowe Dr. Faustus
3. Shakespeare

Othello
The Winter’s Tale

4. Oscar Wilde 

The Importance of Being Earnest


Paper III: (Novel)

1. Trollope Barch ester Towers
2. Jane Austen Pride & Prejudice
3. G. Eliot Adam Bede
4. Dickens A Tale of Two Cities
5. Hardy The Return of the Native


Paper IV: (Prose)

1. Bacon Essays:

Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Adversities
Of Simulation and Dissimulation
Of Parents and Children
Of Great Place
Of Nobility
Of Superstition
Of Friendship
Of Ambition
Of Studies

2. Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels
3. Bertrand Russell Unpopular Essays
4. Edward Said Only the introduction to the book entitled
“Culture and Imperialism”
5. Seam's Haney Only the essay “The Redress of Poetry”
from the book entitled The Redress of Poetry

Paper V: (American Literature)
Poetry

1. Adrienne Rich 

Diving into the Wreck
Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers
Final Notation
Gabriel

2. Sylvia Plath 

Ariel
Morning Song
Poppies in October
The Bee Meeting
The Arrival of the Bee Box
Your

3. Richard Wilbur 

Still Citizen Sparrow
After the last Bulletin
Marginalia

4. John Ash bury 

Melodic Train
Painter
Drama

1. O’Neil Mourning becomes Electra (only the
First of the Trilogy which is titled ‘The Home Coming’ is included in the M.A. Syllabus)
2. Miller The Crucible

Novel
1. Ernest Hemingway For whom the Bell Tolls
2. Toni Morrison Jazz




The first four papers are compulsory, the other four are optional. The candidates are required to opt for any one of the four optional papers.


Paper I Poetry II ----------100
Paper II Drama II ---------100
Paper III Novel II ---------100
Paper IV Literary Criticism -100

Optional Papers

Paper V Short Stories or -----------------------------100
Paper VI Literature in English Around the World ---100
Paper VII Linguistics or ------------------------------100
Paper VIII Essay or ----------------------------------100
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-Total 500

(SYLLABIC AND COURSES OF READING)

Paper I: (Poetry II)(Section A)

1. Blake A Selection from Songs of
Innocence & Experience

i) Auguries of Innocence
ii) The Sick Rose
iii) London
iv) A Poison Tree
v) A Divine Image
vi) From Milton: And Did Those Feet
vii) Holy Thursday (I)
viii) The Tiger
ix) Ah, Sun Flower
x) Holy Thursday (II)

2. Coleridge 

The Ancient Mariner
Kuala Khan
Dejection: An Ode


3. Keats 

Hyperion Book I
Ode to Autumn
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn

Section B

1. Philip Larkin 

Mr. Bleaney
Church Going
Ambulances
1914

2. Seamus Heaney 

Personal Helicon
Tolland Man
A Constable Calls
Toome Road
Casting and Gathering

3. Ted Hughes

Thought Fox
Chances
That Morning
Full Moon and Freida

Paper II: (Drama II)

1. Ibsen Hedda Gabler
2. Chekov The Cherry Orchard
3. Brecht Galileo Galili
4. Beckett Waiting for Godot
5. Edward Bond The Sea


Paper III: (Novel II)

1. Conrad Heart of Darkness
2. Joyce Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man
3. Woolf To the Lighthouse
4. Achebe Things Fall Apart
5. Ahmad Ali Twilight in Delhi


Paper IV: (Literary Criticism)
Practical Criticism

1. Aristotle Poetics
2. Raymond William’s Modern Tragedy
3. Catherine Belsey Critical Practice
*4. T.S. Eliot Tradition and the Individual Talent
*5. Philip Sidney Apology for Poetry
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* Added vide Notification No.D/692/Acad., dated 15-3-2005

Optional Papers

Paper V (Short Stories)

1. Sara Suleri The Property of Women
2. Naguib Mahfuz The Mummy
3. E.Allen Poe The Man of the Crowd
4. Doris Lessing African Short Story
5. Flannery O’Connor Everything that Rises Must
Converge
6. J.Joyce The Dead
7. Nadine Gordimer Ultimate Safari
Once upon a time
8. Kafka The Judgement
9. Achebe Civil Peace
10. Okri What the Tapster Saw
11. Hanif Qureshi My Son the Fanatic
12. D.H.Lawrence The Man who Loved Islands
13. W.Trevor The Day
14. AliceWalker Strong Horse Tea
15. V.S. Pritchett The Voice
16. Brian Friel The Diviner
17. H.E. Bates The Woman who Loved
Imagination
18. Ali Mazuri The Fort
19. Amy Tan The Voice from the Wall
20. A.Chekov The Man who lived in a Shell
21. Braithwaite Dream Hatii
22. V.S. Naipaul The Nightwatchman’s Occurrence Book
23. E. Hemingway A Clean Well Lighted Place


PAPER VI: (Literature in English Around the World)

Drama

1. Lorca House of Bernada Alba
2. Brian Friel Translations

Novel

1. Nugugi The River Between
2. Solzhynetsin A Day in the life of Ivan Denisovitch

Poetry

1. Taufiq Rafat 

Thinking of Mohenjodaro
The Stone Chat
The Last Visit

2. Daud Kamal

Reproduction
The Street of Nightingale
A Remote Beginning

3. Maki Qureshi 

Air Raid
Kite
Christmas
Letter to my Sister

4. A. Hashmi

Encounter with the Sirens
Autumnal
But Where is the Sky?

5. Zulfiqar Ghose 

Across India
February 1952
The Mystique of Root
A Memory of Asia

6. Shirley Lim 

Monsoon History
Modern Secrets

7. Vikram Seth

Humble Administrators
Garden

8. Anna Akhmatova

Prologue Epilogue

9. Derek Walcott 

Far Cry From Africa

10. Ben Okri

African Elegy

11. Achebe

Refugee Mother & Child
Mango Seed

12. Nasim Ezekiel

Night of the Scorpion
Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa

13. Moniza Alvi 

The Country at my Shoulder

Paper VII (Linguistics)
Introduction, Phonetics, Phonology, Morphology, Syntax, Semantics, Stylistics.

Paper VIII: (Essay)
Essay
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