Monday, July 22, 2013

Second year 2nd semi

Poetry
·         Recommended text

English and American Poetry

-   John Donne: 1572-1630, Song; Sweetest Love I do not go
-   William Wordsworth: 1770-1850, Upon Westminster Bridge
-   Robert Burns, A Red, Red Rose
-   John Keats: 1795-1821, La Belle Dame Sans Mercy, A thing of Beauty
-   W. B. Yeats: 1865-1919, Wild Swans at The Coole
-   Walter De La Mare: 1873-1956, Estranged
-   Rupert Brooke: 1887-1915, The Soldier

Sri Lankan and Post-colonial Poetry

-   Jean Arasanayegam In the Month of July, Ruined Gopuram
-   Anne Raqnasinghe, Secretariat: Cecil Rajendra, Song of Hope
-   Wole Soyinka, Telephone Conversation

Short stories
·         Recommended text
-   Maurreen Seneviratne, Mirage,
-   Jhumpa Lahiri: Mrs. Sen’s
-   O’Henry, The Purple Dress  
Novel
·         Recommended text
-   George Orwell: Animal Farm
or
-   Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities
Drama
·         Recommended text
-  William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice
 or
-  Romeo and Juliet



First Year 2nd Semi

    Poetry
·         Recommended text
English and American Poetry

-   William Blake: 1757-1827, The Tiger
-   P.B. Shelley: 1792-1822, Ozymandias
-   H.W. Longfellow: 1807-1882, The Slave’s Dream
-   Robert Frost: 1874-1963, Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening

Sri Lankan and Post-colonial Poetry
-   Daya Dissanayake, Kite, Interview
-   Yasmin Gooneratne, Words to a daughter
-   Rabindranath Tagore, Unworthy Gift

Short stories
·         Recommended text
-   Shantan, The Cuckoo’s House
-   Nadin Gordimer, The Defeated

Novel
·         Recommended text
-   R.K. Narayan; The Guide
or
-   Ediriweera Sarathchandra:  The curfew and the Full Moon

Drama
·         Recommended text
-   Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman
or
-   Bernard Shaw: The Arms and the Man