Department of English

Osmania University

CBCS—BA Optional English Syllabus (ML)

Semester I (Core-1)
Course Title: Introduction to English Language and Literature
5 Credits 5 hours of teaching per week
Unit I History of the English Language
a) Origin and descent of the English Language
b) Features of Old English
c) Features of Middle English
d) Features of Modern English

Unit II The Structure of English Language
a) Word Formation
b) Change of Meaning
c) Sentence Structure I: Simple sentence and its constituents
d) Sentence Structure II: Complex sentence and its constituents

Unit III Figures of Speech
a) Euphemism
b) Hyperbole
c) Irony
d) Metaphor
e) Metonymy
f) Oxymoron
g) Paradox
h) Personification
i) Simile
j) Synecdoche

Unit IV Literary movements
a) Renaissance
b) Reformation
c) Neo Classicism
d) Romanticism
e) Modernism

Unit V Elements of literature
a) Atmosphere
b) Character
c) Imagery
d) Narrative technique
e) Plot
f) Point of view
g) Setting
h) Story
i) Symbolism
j) Tone

Reference Sources
Abrams, MH. A Glossary of Literary Terms. London: Wadsworth, 1957.
Baugh, A.C., and Thomas Cable. A History of the English Language. London:
Routledge, 2002.
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
---. The Anatomy of Drama. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1960.
Bryson, Bill. The Mother Tongue: English and how it got that way. New York: Avon
Books, 1991.
Cuddon, J.A. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. New Delhi: Viva Books, 1998.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. 2 Vols. London: Secker &
Warburg, 1968.
Gray, Martin. A Dictionary of Literary Terms. Delhi: Pearson, 2008.
Hudson, WH. An Introduction to the Study of Literature.
Jespersen, O. Growth and Structure of the English Language. Oxford: Blackwell, 1991.
Kreutzer, James. Elements of Poetry. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
Lemon, Lee T. A Glossary for the Study of English. Delhi: OUP, 1974.
Seturaman, VS, et al. Ed. Practical Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 2000.
Wood, F. T. An Outline History of the English Language. Chennai: Macmillan, 2000.

Semester II (Core-2)
Title: English Poetry
Unit I Forms of Poetry
a) Ballad
b) Elegy
c) Epic
d) Lyric
e) Ode
f) Sonnet

Unit II 16th - 17th Century Poetry
Edmund Spenser “One day I wrote her name upon the strand”
(Sonnet 75)
John Milton Lycidas
John Donne “The Anniversary”

Unit III 17th - 18th Century Poetry
Alexander Pope “Ode on Solitude”
Thomas Gray “Hymn to Adversity”
William Blake “London”

Unit IV 18th - 19th Century Poetry
William Wordsworth “Three Years She Grew”
John Keats “Ode to a Nightingale”
Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”

Unit V 19th - 20th Century Poetry
WB Yeats “The Second Coming”
TS Eliot “Love song of Alfred J Prufrock”
Philip Larkin “Toads”

Reference Sources
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1953.
Childs, Peter. Modernism. New Critical Idiom Series. London: Routledge, 2003.
Day, Aidan. Romanticism. New Critical Idiom Series. London: Routledge, 2003.
Cox, CB and AE Dyson. Practical Criticism of Poetry. London: Hodder, 1965.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. New Delhi: Allied Books, 1980.
Eagleton, Terry. How to Read a Poem. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007.
Ferguson, Margaret et al. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. London: WW Norton, 2005.
Gardner, Helen. Ed. Metaphysical Poets. New York: Penguin, 1957.
Kreutzer, James. Elements of Poetry. New York: Macmillan, 1971.
O Neill, Michael. Ed. The Cambridge History of English Poetry. Cambridge: CUP, 2010.
Seturaman, VS, et al. Ed. Practical Criticism. Madras: Macmillan, 2000.

Semester III
Title: English Drama 5 Credits 5 hours of teaching per week
Unit I Types of Drama
a) Tragedy
b) Comedy
c) Tragicomedy
d) Melodrama
e) Farce
f) History plays

Unit II William Shakespeare
Macbeth

Unit III Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer

Unit IV George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion

Unit V One-Act Plays
AA Milne “The Boy Comes Home”
Harold Pinter “The Room”

Suggested Reading
Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Drama. London: Routledge, 1960.
Bradley, AC. Shakespearean Tragedy. 1904. London: Penguin, 1991.
Evans, Benjamin Ifor. 1921. A Short History of English Drama. New York: Harcourt,
1965.
Neuss, Paula. Ed. Aspects of Early English Drama. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1983.
Nicoll, Allardyce. British Drama. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1963.
Pickering, Kenneth. How to Study Modern Drama. London: Macmillan, 1988.
Styan, JL. The Elements of Drama. Cambridge: CUP, 1969.
Watson, G.J. Drama: an Introduction. London: Macmillan, 1983.

Semester IV
Title: English Drama 5 Credits 5 hours of teaching per week
Unit I Types of Fiction
a) Allegorical
b) Epistolary
c) Gothic
d) Historical
e) Picaresque
f) Psychological

Unit II Daniel Defoe
            Robinson Crusoe

Unit III Jane Austen
             Pride and Prejudice

Unit IV George Orwell
              Animal Farm

Unit V Short Stories
            Rudyard Kipling         "The Man Who Would Be King"
            Arthur Conan Doyle   "The Adventure of the Speckled Band"