Syllabus for Entrance Test for M. A. English -2021 Kashmir   University

Unit I

  Geoffrey Chaucer--- “Prologue to Canterbury Tales”

  John Donne --- “Valediction: Forbidding Mourning”, “Batter My Heart

Unit II

  John Dryden---“Mac Flecknoe”, “Absalom and Achitophel”

  John Milton--- Paradise Lost, Book I

Unit III (British Drama)

  Christopher Marlowe--- Tamburlaine, Part 1

 Shakespeare--- Twelfth Night

Unit IV: 

  G.B.Shaw--- Pygmalion

  Osborne--- Look Back in Anger

Unit V

William Wordsworth--- “Lucy Gray”, “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”

 Keats---“Ode to a Nightingale”, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”

Unit VI

  Alford Tennyson --- “Ulysses”,“Lady of Shallot”, “The Defence of Lucknow”

  W B Yeats--- “Easter 1916”, “A Dialogue between Self and Soul”

Unit VII

  Jane Austen--- Pride and Prejudice

  Charles Dickens--- Oliver Twist

Unit VIII

  D H Lawrence--- Sons and Lovers

Virginia Woolf--- Mrs Dalloway

Unit IX

. Emily Dickinson: “Hope is the Thing with Feathers”

 “Because I Could not Stop for Death”,

 “I am nobody”

 “A Bird came down the Walk”

2. Agha Shahid Ali--- “Dhaka Gauzes”

 “Postcard from Kashmir”

 “I see Kashmir from New Delhi at Midnight

 

 

Unit X

RKNarayan---SwamiandFriends

AnitaDesai---ClearLight ofDay

 

Unit XI

Mother Teresa(Biography)

Sir MohammadIqbal (Biography)

 

 Unit XII

Amartya Sen:How to Judge Globalism

Martin LutherKing:IHaveaDream

 

Unit XIII

Leo Tolstoy: How Much Land Does a Man Need?

Saadat Hasan Manto:Toba Tek Singh

 

Unit XIV

Agreement of Subject and Verb

Articles Unit XV:

Modals

Transformation of Sentences