THE EARt H ENGLISH CLASSES

Prose/Poetry’s Name Writer/Poet’ Type Year of Year of Age Nationality About Writer/Poet’s
Name Birth Die
1. IndianCivilization and Mahatma Gandhi Essay 1869 1948 79 Indian The father of nation.
Culture
2. Bharat is My Home Dr. Zakir Hussain Speech 1897 1969 72 Indian President of India in 1967. Earlier he
had served as the Governor of
Bihar.
3. A Pinch of Snuff Manohar Malgaonkar Short 1913 2010 97 Indian Novelist and short story writer
Story
4. I Have a Dream Martin Luther King, Speech 1929 1968 39 American Baptist minister and civil right activitis
Jr. Influenced by Gandhiji He won the
Nobel Prize in 1964
5. Ideas That Have Helped Bertrand Russell Essay 1872 1970 98 British Philosopher, historian,
Mankind mathematician. He won the Nobel
Prize for literature in 1950
6. The Artist Shiga Naoya Short 1883 1971 88 Japanese Short story writer
Story
7. A Child is Born Germaine Greer Essay 1939 ------ Australia Feminist writer and designed to
suit male
8. How Free is the Press Dorothy L. Sayers Essay 1893 1957 64 British Essayist, playwright, poet and writer.
She became one of the first women to
graduate from Oxford University.

9. The Earth H.E. Bates Short 1905 1974 69 England Short story writer
Story
10.India Through Traveller’s Pearl S. Buck Essay 1892 1973 81 American She taught in a Chinese University.
Eye She won the Noel prize for literature in
1938.
11.A Marriage Proposal Anton Chekhov Story 1860 1904 44 Russia He began his literary career by
writing comic sketches.
1. Sweetest Love I Do Not John Donne Poetry 1572 1631 59 London The pioneer of new kind of lyrical
Goe and satirical verse called
‘Metaphysical’.
2. Song of Myself Walt Whitman Poetry 1819 1892 73 American People’s poet
3. Now The Leaves Are W.H. Auden Poetry 1907 1973 66 Born in Poet, Verse dramatist, critic,
Falling Fast England translator and editor (won the
Settle in U.S. Pulitzer Prize in 1948)
4. To Autumn John Keats Poetry 1795 1821 26 London Romantic poet
5. An Epitaph Walter de la Mare Poetry 1873 1956 83 England Children’s poet
6. The Soldier Ruper Brooke Poetry 1887 1915 28 England War poet, a soldier
7. Macavity: The Mystery T.S. Eliot Poetry 1888 1965 77 Born in Dramatist (awarded the Nobel
Cat U.S.A. Prize for literature in 1948)
Settle in
England
8. Fire-Hymn Keki N. Daruwala Poetry 1937 ------- Indian Landscape poet
9. Snake D.H. Lawrence Poetry 1885 1930 45 British Poet, novelist, short story writer
and essayist
10.My Grand Mother’s Kamala Das Poetry 1934 2009 76 Indian Poet and short sotry writer. Earned a
House respectable place in both English and
Malayalam Literature
1. Marriage Is a Private Chinua Achebe Story 1930 2013 83 Africa Writer, won the commonwealth
Affair Poetry Prize in 1972.
2. The Ice Age Cometh Jayant V Narliker Story 1938 --------- Indian born in Kolhapur and a graduate from
Banaras Hindu University in 1957,
awarded the Kalinga Prize by
UNESCO

3. Teaching of English in Amarnath Jha Essay 1897 1955 58 Indian Padma Vibhushan award winner
India
4. A Far Cry from Africa Walcott Poem 1930 -------- Caribbean poet and playwright.
5. The Grand Beginning Meira Kumar Essay 1945 ------- Indian the only daughter of Late Baby
Jagjivan Ram.
6. A Trick R.K. Sinha Story 1917 2003 86 Indian University professor of English at
Patna universit
7. Cold Wave K.A. Abbas Story 1914 1987 73 Indian A noted progressive bilingual
(English, Urdu) writer, journalist,
filmmaker and critic