TDC 1st year syllabus

 

TDC 1st year syllabus

TDC 1st year syllabus

Paper - 1

1. Ages (Outline of English Literature)

1. Anglo-Saxon/ Old English

2. Anglo-Norman/ Middle English

3. Renaissance/ Elizabethan age

1. Elizabethan drama

2. University wits

3. Poetry

4. Elizabethan prose

4. Puritan Age

1. Puritan poetry

2. School of Spenser

3. The metaphysical school (Poetry)

4. Cavalier poets

5. Jacobean & Caroline (drama)

6. Jacobean & Caroline  (prose)

5. Restoration period

1. Restoration poetry 

2. Restoration drama

3. Restoration prose 

6. Eighteenth-century literature 

1. Poetry of the Age of Pope

2. The Prose of the Age of Pope

7. The age of Johnson 

1. Poets of the Age of Johnson

2. The prose of the Age of Johnson

3. Eighteenth-century Novel

4. 18th-century drama

8. Romantic Age

1. Poets of the Romantic Age.

2. The lake group 

3. Prose - writers of the Romantic Age

4. Novelists of the Romantic Age

9. The Early Victorian period

1. Poets of the early Victorian period

2. Novelist of the early Victorian period

3. prose writers of the early Victorian period

10. Later Victorian period.

1. Poets of the later Victorian period / The pre-Raphaelite movement.

2. The Decadent and Aesthetic movement./Art for Art's sake

3. Novelist of the later Victorian period.

4. Prose writers of the later Victorian period 

2. writers

1. Geoffrey Chaucer

2. Webster

3. Christopher Marlowe

4. Charles Dickens

5. Daniel Defoe

6. T.S Eliots

7. D.H Lawrance

8. G.B Shaw

9. Joseph Rudyard Kipling

10. John Ruskin

11. Matthew Arnold

note: anything you see with ‘/’ like for example point no 1 Anglo-Saxon/ Old English.

It means Anglo-Saxon is also known as Old English. In some books,

it would be the Anglo-Saxon period & in some books,

it would be the Old English period.

Paper - 2

1. Eve of St. Agnes

1. Hellenism

2. Mediaralism

3. Escapism

4. Details of Eve of St. Agnes - Keats

2. Mac Flecknoe

1. Mock epic

2. Satire

3. 
   

3. Palgrave’s Poetry

1. Consolation - William Shakespeare

2.  To Celia - Ben Jonson

3. Gift of god - O. Henry

4. Retreat - Henry Vaughan

5. Composed upon  westminster bridge - William Wordsworth

6. To a Skylark - William Wordsworth

7. To the Skylark - William Wordsworth

8. On first looking into Chapman's Homer - John Keats

9. The world is too much with us - William Wordsworth

10. Ode to Nightingale - John Keats

11. Ode to Autumn - John Keats

12. Now sleep the crimson Petal - Alfred Tennyson

13. Now fade the last streak of snow - Alfred Tennyson

14. Dover Beach - Matthew Arnold

15. Thought in a Garden - Andrew Marvell

16. Two in a Campagna - Robert Browning

17. She walks in Beauty - Lord Byron

18. Love - Taylor Coleridge

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Composition (50) marks 

1. Animal farm 

Subsidiary (100) marks 

1. Poetry 

1. The Lunatic The Lover and The Poet

2. In the time of the Breaking of the Nation

3. River 

4. Meeting at Night 

5. A hot noon in Malaber

6. The little black bay 

7. Where the mind is without fear 

8. Songs of Radha  

9. Arabia 

2. Arms and the man

3. Prose ⤵️

1. Life’s Philosophy

2. India Through a Traveller’s Eye

3. Ideas That Help Mankind 

4. How free is the press