Unit 1
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Explanations with reference to the context from the starred texts Geoffrey Chaucer : “General Prologue”* to The Canterbury Tales The Nun’s Priest’s Tale John Donne : “The Canonization* “A Valediction:Forbidding Mourning” “The Sunne Rising” “The Ecstasie”* : Paradise Lost, Book I : Essay on Man* : “Introduction” “Earth’s Answer” “The Tyger”* “London” (from Songs of Experience)
Unit 2
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Unit 3
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John Milton Unit 4 : Alexander Pope William Blake
Unit 5
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William Wordsworth: “Ode on Intimations of Immortality”* Prelude (1805 edition), Book I S.T. Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner* “Kubla Khan”
Paper II : Fiction I Unit 1 : Aphra Behn Henry Fielding Jane Austen : Oroonoko : Joseph Andrews : Emma Mansfield Park : Great Expectations A Tale of Two Cities : Middlemarch : Tess of the D’Urbervilles The Woodlanders
Unit 2
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Unit 3
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Charles Dickens
Unit 4 Unit 5
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George Eliot Thomas Hardy
Paper III : Drama I Unit 1 : Explanations with reference to the contexts from the starred texts
Unit 2
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Christopher Marlowe Ben Jonson Shakespeare
: Doctor Faustus* : Volpone : Henry IV, Part I Hamlet* : Antony and Cleopatra The Tempest* : The Duchess of Malfi* : The Changeling
Unit 3
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Unit 4
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Shakespeare
Unit 5
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John Webster Thomas Middleton
Paper IV : Criticism I Unit 1 Unit 2 : : Aristotle John Dryden Samuel Johnson : Poetics : “Of Dramatic Poesie: An Essay” : “Preface to Shakespeare”
Unit 3
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William Wordsworth : “Preface” to the Lyrical Ballads P.B. Shelley : “A Defence of Poetry” S.T. Coleridge William Hazelitt : Chapters XIII and XIV of Biographia Literaria : “Why the Arts Are not Progressive” “On Shakespeare and Milton” : Letter of 8 Oct., 1817 addressed to Bailey Letter of 21 Dec., 1817 addressed to his brothers Letter of 27 Oct., 1818 addressed to Richard Woodhouse : “The Study of Poetry”
Unit 4
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Unit 5
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John