CU UG English (HONS) Core Course (2018 onwards)

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CU UG English (HONS) Core Course

Indian Writing in English (CC3)

1. Henry Louis Vivian Derozio – ‘To India, My Native Land’
2. Toru Dutt – ‘Our Casuarina Tree’
3. Kamala Das – ‘Introduction’
4. A.K. Ramanujan – ‘River’
5. Nissim Ezekiel – ‘Enterprise’
6. Jayanta Mahapatra – ‘Dawn at Puri’

British Poetry: 14th–17th Century (CC4)

1. Geoffrey Chaucer – ‘Wife of Bath’s Prologue’ (still analyzing)
2. Edmund Spenser – ‘One Day I Wrote Her Name’
3. William Shakespeare – Sonnet 18
4. William Shakespeare – Sonnet 130
5. John Donne – ‘The Good Morrow’
6. Andrew Marvell – ‘To His Coy Mistress’

American Literature (CC5)

1. Robert Frost – ‘After Apple Picking’
2. Walt Whitman – ‘O Captain, My Captain’
3. Sylvia Plath – ‘Daddy’
4. Langston Hughes – ‘Harlem to be Answered’
5. Edgar Allan Poe – ‘To Helen’

18th Century British Literature (CC8)

1. Samuel Johnson – ‘London’ (still analyzing)
2. Thomas Gray – ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’

British Romantic Literature (CC9)

1. William Blake – ‘The Lamb’
2. William Blake – ‘The Tyger’
3. William Wordsworth – ‘Tintern Abbey’
4. Samuel Taylor Coleridge – ‘Kubla Khan’
5. Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘Ode to the West Wind’
6. Percy Bysshe Shelley – ‘To a Skylark’
7. John Keats – ‘Ode to a Nightingale’
8. John Keats – ‘Ode to Autumn’

19th Century British Literature (CC10)

1. Lord Tennyson – ‘Ulysses’
2. Robert Browning – ‘My Last Duchess’
3. Christina Rossetti – ‘The Goblin Market’
4. Matthew Arnold – ‘Dover Beach’

Women’s Writings (CC11)

1. Emily Dickinson – ‘I cannot live with you’
2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning – ‘How do I love thee’
3. Eunice De Souza – ‘Advice to Women’ (still analyzing)

Early 20th Century British Literature (CC12)

1. T.S. Eliot – ‘The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock’
2. T.S. Eliot – ‘Preludes’
3. W.B. Yeats – ‘The Second Coming’
4. W.B. Yeats – ‘No Second Troy’
5. Wilfred Owen – ‘Spring Offensive’

Postcolonial Literature (CC14)

1. Pablo Neruda – ‘Tonight I Can Write’
2. Derek Walcott – ‘A Far Cry from Africa’
3. David Malouf – ‘Revolving Days’
4. Mamang Dai – ‘The Voice of the Mountain‘

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