Elective English Syllabus: North Bengal University B.A. 2nd Year

Paper I – Poetry

Romantic Period

• Wordsworth – “Ode: Intimations of Immortality”
• Coleridge – “Kubla Khan”
• Keats – “Ode to a Nightingale”
• Shelley – “Ozymandias”

Victorian Period

• Tennyson – “Ulysses”
• E. B. Browning – “Sonnet 43”
• R. Browning – “My Last Duchess”
• Rossetti – “Goblin Market”

Modern Period

• Yeats – “The Second Coming”
• Eliot – “The Waste Land”
• Thomas – “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night”
• Plath – “Daddy”

Paper II – Drama

Greek & Roman

• Sophocles – Oedipus Rex
• Aristophanes – The Birds
• Plautus – The Twin Menaechmi
• Seneca – Medea

Renaissance

• Marlowe – Doctor Faustus
• Shakespeare – Hamlet
• Jonson – Volpone
• Webster – The Duchess of Malfi

Modern

• Ibsen – A Doll’s House
• Chekhov – The Cherry Orchard
• Wilde – The Importance of Being Earnest
• Miller – Death of a Salesman