I have completed 12th now I will take admission in Allahabad University for BA in English literature so I want to see syllabus of this course so can you provide me appropriate link where I can see syllabus of BA (English literature) course?

The syllabus of BA (Bachelor of Arts) (English Literature) Program offered by Allahabad University is as follows:

Paper 1 (Poetry) Syllabus
1. William Shakespeare:
(a) Sonnet 29: ―When in disgrace with fortune and men‘s eyes‖
(b)Sonnet 138 ―When my love swears that she is made of truth‖

2. John Done: ―Canonization‖

3. John Milton: Paradise Lost ( Satan‘s Speech )

4. John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, Lines 150-197. (False Achitophel).

5. Alexander Pope: ― Essay on Man‖ (Lines 1-18)

6. William Blake: The Nurse‘s Song

7. William Wordsworth: (a) ―Tintern Abbey‖, (b) ―The World is too much with us‖

8. Percy B. Shelley: (a) ―Ode to the West Wind‖ (b) ― A Lament‖

9. John Keats: (a) ―Ode to a Nightingale‖, (b) ― La Belle dame sans merci‖

10. Sarojini Naidu: The Flute Player of Brindaban

11. Toru Dutt:‖ Baughmaree‖

12. Rabindra Nath Tagore: From Gitanjali : (a) 11th, Leave the Chanting, (b) 12th Fruit Gathering.

13. Nissim Ezikiel: ―Background‖, ―Casually‖

14. Frost: ― Stopping by the Woods‖

15. Walt Whitman: ―O Captain, My Captain‖

Pattern of the Question Paper

The paper will be divided into five units. Unit I will consist of 6 passages set from the poems prescribed and candidates will be asked to explain with reference to the context any three. Units II, III, IV and V will consist of essay type questions. The following Unit wise division of the prescribed poets will be observed

Unit II: Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, Dryden, Pope.

Unit III: Blake, Wordsworth, Shelley, Keats.

Unit IV: Sarojini Naidu, Toru Dutt, Tagore.

Unit V: Nissim Ezekiel, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman.

(Unit I will carry 18 marks and the other units will carry 8 marks each.)


Syllabus of BA (Bachelor of Arts) (English Literature) Allahabad University

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