Third Year 1st Semi: English Literature Updated 17.01.2014

      English and American Poetry

-   John Milton: 1608-1674 On His Blindness

-   William Blake: 1757-1827, The Clod and the Pebble

-   John Keats: 1795-1821, Ode to autumn

-   Robert Frost: 1874-1963, Road Not Taken

-   T.S. Eliot: 1888, Gerontion

-   W.H. Auden, Unknown Citizen

-   Philip Larkin: 1922-1985, Mcm xiv

Sri Lankan and Post-colonial Poetry

-   Lakdasa Wickramasinghe: Don’t talk to me about Matisse, The Cobra

-   Richard de Zoysa, Birds, Beasts and Relatives

-   Rudyard Kipling, IF

-   Paul Lawrence Dunbar: I know why the Caged Bird Sings

Short Stories

-   Sithy Hameed: Death in Life,

-   V. S. Naipaul:  My Aunt’s Gold Teeth

-   Somerset Maugham:  Sanatorium  

Novel

-   George Orwell: Animal Farm  OR

-   Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities

Drama
- Shakespeare : Merchant of Venice OR
- Shakespeare : Romeo and Juliet