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On this page, we are providing the Delhi University B.A. English syllabus, covering important topics such as English literature, language studies, literary theory, and world literature. This syllabus offers a clear outline of the course structure, helping students prepare for careers in fields like education, publishing, journalism, and creative writing.

Syllabus of English (Hons.)

Here we provide the syllabus for B.A. (Hons) English, covering key literary genres, movements, and periods. Students will explore classic and modern works, critical theories, and language studies, developing skills in literary analysis and communication for careers in writing, education, and media.

BA English (hons) Semester 1 Syllabus

Course	Units
(DSC-1): Introduction to Literary Studies	UNIT I: Reading the Novel Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice Prince, Gerald J. Narratology: Form and Function of Narrative. Kaul, A.N. ‘A New Province of Writing,’ The Domain of the Novel: Reflections on Some Historical Definitions. UNIT II: Reading Poetry John Milton: ‘On His Blindness’ William Wordsworth: ‘Composed Upon Westminster Bridge’ Emily Dickinson: ‘341 After Great Pain’ Rabindranath Tagore: ‘Where the Mind is Without Fear Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter and Jon Stallworthy, ‘Versification and Poetic Syntax’, The Norton Anthology of Poetry UNIT III: Reading Drama Mahesh Dattani: Tara Watson, G.J. ‘The Nature of Drama’, Drama Tanvir, Habib. It Must Flow: A Life in Theatre Day, Gary. ‘Introduction’, Class.
(DSC-2) European Classical Literature	unit-1: Homer: The Odyssey unit-2: Aristotle: Poetics, Sophocles: Antigone unit-3: Aristophanes: Lysistrata
(DSC-3): Indian Classical Literature	Vyasa. Selections from The Mahabharata, ‘The Dicing’ and ‘Sequel to Dicing’ ‘The Temptation of Karna’ ‘Krishna’s Peace Proposal Kalidasa. Abhijnanasakuntalam, Ilango Atikal. ‘The Book of Vanci’, Cilappatikaram.
Source: Delhi University Syllabus Page no.267

BA English (hons) Semester 2 Syllabus

Course	Units
(DSC-4) – : 14th to 17th Century English Poetry	UNIT – I Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘General Prologue’ and ‘Pardoner’s Tale’ from Canterbury Tales sub unit UNIT – II Philip Sidney: ‘Sonnet I’ Walter Raleigh: ‘The Passionate Man’s Pilgrimage’ John Donne, ‘Sunne Rising,’ ‘The Canonization,’ ‘The Good Morrow’ UNIT – III John Milton: ‘Book I’, Paradise Lost
(DSC-5): 16th & 17th Century English Drama	Christopher Marlowe: Doctor Faustus William Shakespeare: Macbeth Aphra Behn: The Rover
(DSC-6): 18th Century Literature	Alexander Pope: Rape of the Lock Jonathan Swift: Gulliver’s Travels Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
Source: Delhi University Syllabus Page no.24

BA English (hons) Semester 3 Syllabus

Course	Units
(DSC-7) – : Romantic Literature	UNIT – I . William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience: (i) ‘Lamb’ (ii) ‘Tiger’ (iii) ‘Chimney Sweeper’(Songs of Innocence) (iv) ‘Chimney Sweeper’(Songs of Experience) 2. William Wordsworth: (i) ‘Tintern Abbey’ (ii) ‘London’ Samuel Taylor Coleridge: (i) ‘Kubla Khan’ (ii) ‘Dejection: An Ode UNIT – II Percy Bysshe Shelley: (i) ‘Ozymandias (ii) ‘Ode to the West Wind’ John Keats: (i) ‘Ode to a Nightingale’ (ii) ‘Ode on a Grecian Urn’ (iii) ‘Ode to Autumn’ UNIT – III Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
(DSC-8): Victorian Literature	UNIT – I Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre Alfred Tennyson: ‘The Lady of Shalott’ UNIT – II Charles Dickens: Great Expectations Robert Browning: ‘My Last Duchess UNIT – III George Eliot: The Mill on the Floss Elizabeth Barrett Browning: ‘How Do I Love Thee? Let me Count the Ways’
(DSC-9): Literary Criticism	UNIT – I David Hume, ‘Of the Standard of Taste’, from ‘Four Dissertations’, The Norton Anthology of Theory and Criticism Edmund Burke, Part 1: Section VII, Section XVIII; Part 2- Sections I- VIII; Part 3- Section XXVII, A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and the Beautiful. UNIT – II Virginia Woolf: ‘Modern Fiction’ (1919) T.S. Eliot: ‘Tradition and the Individual Talent’ (1919) UNIT – III I.A. Richards: Principles of Literary Criticism (1926) Chapters 1 & 2. Cleanth Brooks: The Well-Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry (1947) (i) ‘The Heresy of Paraphrase’ (ii) ‘The Language of Paradox’
Source: Delhi University Syllabus Page no.28

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