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  • Paper I

    • Section A — Poetry and Drama

      • William Shakespeare

        • King Lear

        • The Tempest

      • John Donne

        • Canonization

        • Death be not proud

        • The Good Morrow

        • On his Mistress going to bed

        • The Relic

      • John Milton

        • Paradise Lost, Book I

        • Paradise Lost, Book II

        • Paradise Lost, Book IV

        • Paradise Lost, Book IX

      • Alexander Pope

        • The Rape of the Lock

      • William Wordsworth

        • Ode on Intimations of Immortality

        • Tintern Abbey

        • Three years she grew

        • She dwelt among untrodden ways

        • Michael

        • Resolution and Independence

        • The World is too much with us

        • Milton, thou shouldst be living at this hour

        • Upon Westminster Bridge

      • Alfred Tennyson

        • In Memoriam

      • Henrik Ibsen

        • A Doll's House

    • Section B — Fiction

      • Jonathan Swift

        • Gulliver's Travels

      • Jane Austen

        • Pride and Prejudice

      • Henry Fielding

        • Tom Jones

      • Charles Dickens

        • Hard Times

      • George Eliot

        • The Mill on the Floss

      • Thomas Hardy

        • Tess of the d'Urbervilles

      • Mark Twain

        • The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

    • Background topics

      • The Renaissance

      • Elizabethan and Jacobean Drama

      • Metaphysical Poetry

      • The Epic and the Mock-epic

      • Neo-classicism

      • Satire

      • The Romantic Movement

      • The Rise of the Novel

      • The Victorian Age

  • Paper II

    • Section A — Poetry and Drama

      • William Butler Yeats

        • Easter 1916

        • The Second Coming

        • A Prayer for my daughter

        • Sailing to Byzantium

        • The Tower

        • Among School Children

        • Leda and the Swan

        • Lapis Lazuli

        • Byzantium

      • T.S. Eliot

        • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

        • Journey of the Magi

        • Burnt Norton

      • W.H. Auden

        • Partition

        • Musee des Beaux Arts

        • In Memory of W.B. Yeats

        • Lay your sleeping head, my love

        • The Unknown Citizen

        • Consider

        • Mundus Et Infans

        • The Shield of Achilles

        • September 1, 1939

        • Petition

      • John Osborne

        • Look Back in Anger

      • Samuel Beckett

        • Waiting for Godot

      • Philip Larkin

        • Next, Please

        • Deceptions

        • Afternoons

        • Days

        • Mr. Bleaney

      • A.K. Ramanujan

        • Looking for a Cousin on a Swing

        • A River

        • Of Mothers, among other Things

        • Love Poem for a Wife 1

        • Small-Scale Reflections on a Great House

        • Obituary

    • Section B — Fiction

      • Joseph Conrad

        • Lord Jim

      • James Joyce

        • Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

      • D.H. Lawrence

        • Sons and Lovers

      • E.M. Forster

        • A Passage to India

      • Virginia Woolf

        • Mrs Dalloway

      • Raja Rao

        • Kanthapura

      • V.S. Naipaul

        • A House for Mr. Biswas

    • Background topics

      • Modernism

      • Poets of the Thirties

      • Stream-of-consciousness Novel

      • Absurd Drama

      • Colonialism and Post-colonialism

      • Indian Writing in English

      • Marxist, Freudian and Feminist approaches to literature

      • Post-Modernism