English syllabus - Gauhati University

7PAPER 4English Poetry, Drama and Fiction: Restoration to RomanticismMarks 100 (80+20) [20 Marks Internal Assessment]. Credits: 8In this paper students will have the opportunity to study the literary texts that reflect the socio-culturaland political interests of the period studied in Paper III and also examine the ways in which texts takepart in and are produced by urgent issues of a time. They will be expected to answer 4 questions(4x14=56) from both sections that will test their skill in making these connections, 2 contextquestions(2x6=12) from the starred texts of Section I, and 2 questions of 6 marks each (2x6=12) fromSection II.Section I: Poems:(3x14 + 2x6) John Milton (1608-74): Invocation (from Paradise Lost), Book 1, Lines 1-68. John Dryden (1631-1700): Mac Flecknoe* Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Rape of the Lock, Canto 2 William Blake (1757-1827): The Chimney Sweeper ( SI ) ; The Little Black Boy , TheTiger * William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Tintern Abbey*; She dwelt among the untrodden ways;Lucy Gray, (or Solitude). Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): Kubla Khan Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822): Ozymandias*; The Indian Girls Song (The IndianSerenade). John Keats (1795-1821): La Belle Dame Sans Merci; To Autumn*Section I: Plays and Novels(1x14 + 2x6) William Congreve (1670-1729): The Way of the World Jane Austen (1775-1817): Pride and PrejudiceRecommended Reading :Fisk, Deborah Payne, The Cambridge Companion to English Restoration Theatre. Cambridge:Cambridge UniversityPress, 2000Irvine, Robert P. Jane Austen. New York: Routledge, 2005Mac Donagh, Oliver. Jane Austen: Real and Imagined Worlds, New Haven: Yale Univ Press, 1993Owen, Susan J. A Companion to Restoration Drama, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2002