English Honours B. A. Part 1 syllabus | LNMU with Previous Year Question Paper

Lalit Narayan Mithila University, Darbhanga
Syllabus of B. A. Part 1, English Honours

Paper 1 :-

A. Background Studies ~ 20 marks
The Renaissance and the
Reformation, Humanism, Classicism & Romanticism,
Victorianism & Modernism, Aestheticism, Decadence,
Irish Literary Movement, Imagism & Symbolism,
Impressionism.

B. History of English Poetry( Chaucer to Modern Poets) ~20 marks
Medieval Poetry, Elizabethan Poetry, Metaphysical Poetry, Puritan Poetry, Neo-Classical Poetry, Transitional Poets, Romantic Poetry, Victorian Poetry, War Poetry, Poetry of the 1920's, The Auden Group, Neo-Romanticism, Apocalypse Poetry, Movement Poets, Confessional Poetry.

C. History of English drama (from 11th century to the 20th century) ~ 20 marks
Beggings of English Drama, Mysteries, Mortalities and Interludes, University Wits, Elizabethan Drama, Jacobean Drama Restoration Comedy, Sentimental Comedy, Anti- Sentimental Comedy, Problem Plays, Revival of Poetic Drama (20th century Poetic Drama).

D. 20 marks
Four Wheels of the English Novel, Gothic novel, Picaresque Novel, Historical Novel, Stream of Consciousness Novel, Psychological Novel, Science Fiction, Novel of Protest, Feminist Fiction, English Women Novelists.
Some Major Novelists: Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, Aane Austen, George Eliot.

E. Miscellaneous Prose~ 20 marks
Growth and Development of the Essay, Elizabethan Essayist, Periodical Essays, Personal Essays of the 19th Century, Modern Essayist, Autobiography as a Literary Form, Travel Literature, Growth and Development of Short Story, Short Story as an Art Form, Biography.

▪︎ Books reccomended :
a) History of English Literature : https://amzn.to/3qdCznu
https://amzn.to/2XDLsKx
Paper 2 :-

Poems : 50 marks
a) Shakespeare-Sonnet 29 (Remembrance) and Sonnet 73
(b) John Donne-Sweetest Love
(c) Milton-Poem No. 62 (Ode on the Morning of Christ's Nativity)
(d) H. Vaughan-The Retreat
(e) G. Herbert-The Pulley
(f) A. Marvell-Thoughts in a Garden
(g) John Dryden-Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
(h) William Cowper-The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk
(i) S.T. Coleridge-Youth and Age
(j) W. Wordsworth-The World is Too Much with Us, To the Skylark
(k) P.B. Shelley-To a Skylark
(1) John Keats-Ode to a Nightingale, On My First Looking into Chapman's Homer. (m)Tennyson-Tears Idle Tears (From The Princess), The Eagle.
(n) R. Browning-My Last Duchess
(0) M. Arnold- Dover Beach

▪︎ Books recommended:
a) Golden Treasury (poetry) https://amzn.to/2LH9Bxc

Long Poems: 40 marks
The Eve of St. Agnes- John Keats
https://amzn.to/3qbrgfp

The Rape of Lock- A. Pope
https://amzn.to/3q6SELq

Literary Terms : 10 marks
Rhetoric & Prosody : Literary Terms Pastoral Elegy, Pindaric Ode, Sonnet, Romantic Ode, Ballad, Satire, Dramatic Monologue, Heroic Couplet, Onomatopoeia, Transferred Epithet, Metonymy Alliteration, Personification, Irony, Pun, Climax, Hyperbole, Anti-Climax, Apostrophe, Paradox, Simile, Metaphor, Epical Simile, Rhetorical Question.
https://amzn.to/3nBpX7N

Видео English Honours B. A. Part 1 syllabus | LNMU with Previous Year Question Paper канала the Literal Heart