This document outlines the syllabus for English literature under part 3. It aims to sensitize learners to different existential realities and develop an appreciation of aesthetics. 8 selections each of poetry and prose from the Renaissance to modern times have been chosen, as well as a novel and play, to present major landmarks in the evolution of English literature. The objectives are to enable students to critically read, appreciate, and interpret different types of poetry and prose, as well as to analyze a novel and play in terms of character, theme, and human condition. The first book's lessons include poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Browning, and prose selections by Bacon, Lamb,
This document outlines the syllabus for English literature under part 3. It aims to sensitize learners to different existential realities and develop an appreciation of aesthetics. 8 selections each of poetry and prose from the Renaissance to modern times have been chosen, as well as a novel and play, to present major landmarks in the evolution of English literature. The objectives are to enable students to critically read, appreciate, and interpret different types of poetry and prose, as well as to analyze a novel and play in terms of character, theme, and human condition. The first book's lessons include poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Browning, and prose selections by Bacon, Lamb,
This document outlines the syllabus for English literature under part 3. It aims to sensitize learners to different existential realities and develop an appreciation of aesthetics. 8 selections each of poetry and prose from the Renaissance to modern times have been chosen, as well as a novel and play, to present major landmarks in the evolution of English literature. The objectives are to enable students to critically read, appreciate, and interpret different types of poetry and prose, as well as to analyze a novel and play in terms of character, theme, and human condition. The first book's lessons include poems by Shakespeare, Milton, Blake, Wordsworth, Keats, Shelley, and Browning, and prose selections by Bacon, Lamb,
1. To sensitize the learner to different existential realities 2. To evolve in the learner a sense of aesthetics.
J ustification:
1. Keeping the above aims in mind 8 selections of poetry and prose each, a novel and a drama for I year and II year Intermediate students have been selected in view of the workload of modern language ( 9 hours per week).
2. The selections have been made in poetry and prose from Renaissance period to the modern times to present the major landmarks in the evolution of English Literature. A classic novel and a play have also been selected.
Objectives:
Poetry: To enable the students to read, appreciate, and interpret critically different kinds of poetry ranging from Shakespearean era to Modern age.
Prose: To enable the learners to read, comprehend and appreciate different kinds / types of prose by world masters.
Fiction / Drama
To enable the learners to read, appreciate, and analyse critically a novel and a play in terms of character sketch, development of theme and dramatization of human predicament. FIRST BOOK: MYRI AD VOI CES
Lessons:
POETRY:
1. Shakespeare - Let Me Not to the Marriage of True Minds.
2. Milton - Satans Speech Book I (first speech)
3. Blake - The Poison Tree 4. Wordsworth - To a skylark 5. Keats - Human Seasons 6. Shelley - Love 7. Browning - To My Last Duchess PROSE:
1. Francis Bacon - Of Truth 2. Charles Lamb - Dissertation upon a Roast Pig 3. Goldsmith - City Night piece
4. Hazlitt - A Fathers Letter 5. Aldons Huxley - Pleasures 6. J .B. Priestley - Student Mobs 7. Tagore - My Lord, the Baby