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Calcutta University BA English Honours Syllabus

PAPER – I (F.M.. 100)
HISTORY OF LITERATURE: 60 MARKS
Group A: OE period to 1750
Section 1: Old English and Middle English Periods
Section 2: Elizabethan and Jacobean Periods
Section 3: Civil War, Restoration and Augustan Periods
One question of 16 marks out of three (one from each section)
Two questions of 7 marks each out of six (two from each section)

Group B: 1750 to 2000
Section 1: Pre-Romantics and Romantics
Section 2: Victorian
Section 3: Modern and Post-Modern
One question of 16 marks out of three (one from each section)
Two questions of 7 marks each out of six (two from each section)

PHILOLOGY: 40 MARKS
Group A: Latin, Greek, Scandinavian & French Influence
One question of 12 marks out of two

Group B: Word Notes
Four word-notes of 2 marks each out of eight

Group C: Word-formation Processes and Americanism
One question of 12 marks out of two

Group D: Consonant Shift, Makers of English Language (Shakespeare, Milton & the Bible)
One question of 8 marks out of three

PAPER – II (F.M. 100)
POETRY FROM ELIZABETHAN AGE TO THE ROMANTIC REVIVAL

GROUP A: John Donne: The Good Morrow, Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress, William Blake: The Tyger & The Lamb

GROUP B: William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, ST Coleridge: Kubla Khan, PB Shelley: Ode to the West Wind & To a Skylark, John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale & To Autumn

GROUP C: Shakespeare’s sonnets No. 87 (Farewell! thou art too dear for my possessing) & No. 130

GROUP D: John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book I

GROUP E: Alexander Pope, The Rape of the Lock (First 3 Cantos)

GROUP F: Literary Terms on poetry

PAPER – III (F.M. 100)
DRAMA

GROUP A: Marlowe – Edward II, Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night's Dream

GROUP B: Literary terms on drama

GROUP C: Sheridan – The Rivals, Shakespeare – Macbeth

PAPER – IV (F.M. 100)
NOVEL, ESSAYS AND SHORT STORIES

GROUP A: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice OR Sir Walter Scott: Kenilworth

GROUP B: Essays: Francis Bacon, Of Studies, Charles Lamb, The Superannuated Man, and George
Orwell, Shooting an Elephant

GROUP C: Literary Terms on fiction

GROUP D: Stories - James Joyce, Araby, HE Bates, The Ox, and Katherine Mansfield, The Fly

GROUP E: Joseph Conrad, The Secret Sharer

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