I just entered in the MA English Literature course at the Pt Ravishankar Shukla University. Please give me the MA English Literature syllabus offered by Pt Ravishankar Shukla University so I can arrange my books according to it.

The syllabus of MA English (Semester System) Program offered by PRSU (Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University) is as follows:

SEMESTER - I

PAPER – I

POETRY – I

UNIT-I Annotations from the texts prescribed for detailed study

UNIT-II- Chaucer : Prologue to Canterbury Tales (Detailed)

UNIT-III - John Donne: Death Be not Proud, Valediction,
Forbidden Mourning, The Good Morrow,
Extasie, Cannonization (Detailed)
Shakespeare : Sonnets1,18,26,54,55,60,116 ( Non- detailed)
Andrew Marvell : To His Coy Mistress (Non - detailed )

UNIT-IV- John Milton : Paradise Lost – Book 1 (Detailed)
John Dryden : Absalom and Achitophel (Non - detailed )

UNIT-V- Alexander Pope : Rape of the Lock (Detailed Study)
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Detailed)
Blake : The Tyger, Ah: Sunflower

Directives for students, teachers and paper setters-
1. Candidates are expected to study the entire prescribed syllabus thoroughly.
2. Each unit is compulsory.
3. Question 1 (Unit I) will consist of six passages for explanation with reference to context from the texts prescribed for detailed study. Out of these four are to be attempted. Each annotation will carry 4 marks (4x4=16)
4. Candidates will answer four other questions from unit II to V carrying 16 marks each.
5. A question on each author/ text must be asked. Internal choice should be provided in units having more than one author.

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