B.A. English Literature

The Mahatma Gandhi Kashi Vidyapeeth offers B.A. English Literature course to its students. The course structure for it is as follows:

Paper I (Poetry)
Paper II (Drama)
Texts for detailed study:
1. Shakespeare : Macbeth
2. G.B. Shaw : Arms and the Man
Texts for non-detailed study:
1. Shakespeare: Twelfth Night

Part II
Poems from The Winged Word edited by David Green, Macmillan (India)
1. Alfred Tennyson : (a) Break, Break, Break
(b) Come into the Garden, Maud
2. Robert Browning : (a) My Last Duchess
(b) Porphyria's Lover
3. Matthew Arnold : (a) Shakespeare
(b) A Wish

Essays from English Essayists, ed. S.K. Sinha (O.U.P.)

1. Francis Bacon : (a) Of Studies
(b) Of Travel
2. Richard Steele : The Spectator Club
3. Joseph Addison : Sir Roger at Church
4. Oliver Goldsmith : On National Prejudices

Part III
Texts prescribed for detailed study:
1. T.S.Eliot : Murder in the Cathedral
2. John Osborne : Look Back in Anger
Texts prescribed for non-detailed study:
1. Arthur Miller : All My Sons
2. G. Karnad : Hayavadan

Texts prescribed:
1. Jane Austen : Pride and Prejudice
2. Charles Dickens : Oliver Twist
3. Thomas Hardy : The Mayor of Casterbridge
4. Raja Rao : Kanthapura

Paper III (Forms and Movements)