Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Introduction to Literatures in English - I Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
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Syllabus for Introduction to Literatures in English - I
Practise with the Semester 1 past papers. Papers in the subject folders were set on this syllabus. The year folders hold older papers, so check each topic against this one.
Module 1: Sonnets and Odes
- William Shakespeare, Sonnet 118, “Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?”
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43” from Sonnets from the Portuguese
- P. B. Shelley, “Ode to Skylark”
- Dilip Chitre, “Ode to Bombay”
Module 2: Elegy and Ballad
- Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain!”
- Katherine Philips: “Epitaph”
- Thomas Campbell, “Lord Ullin’s Daughter”
- Bob Dylan: “Blowin’ in the Wind” (non-traditional folk ballad)
Module 3: Dramatic Monologue and Epic
- Robert Browning, “The Last Ride”
- Carol Ann Duffy, “Medusa”
- Judith Wright. “Eve to her Daughters”
- John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, (The Invocation-line no. 1 to 26)
Module 4: Other Forms
- Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee (Lyric)
- William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Imagist Poem)
- Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation “(Unconventional)
- Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky” (Non-Sense Poem)
- Susheel Kumar Sharma, “Spineless - II” (from The Door is Half Open)
Reference Books
- Anthology of Indian English Poetry. Ed. S.K. Singh. Orient Blackswan, 1989.
- No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women. Ed. Florence Howe. 1973.
- She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women. Ed. Ana Sampson. Pan MacMillan, 2020.
- The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Sixth Edition. Eds. Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, Mary Jo Salter. https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Norton-Anthology-of-Poetry
- The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Ed. Jeet Thayil. Hamish Hamilton, 2022.
- Six Major Poets: A Critical Study by Dr. Vikas Sharma, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2023.
- https://www.poetryfoundation.org/