ARA1B 1 MILTON AND THE NEO-CLASSICAL AGE
Unit I Prose
1. Addison - Character of Will Wimble
2. Steele - Roger’s Account of his Disappointment in Love
3. Goldsmith – Man in Black
4. Goldsmith – Beau Tibbs
Unit II Poetry
1. Milton -- Paradise Lost -– Book IX
The Temptation of Eve ( Lines 411 - 835)
Unit III Poetry
1 Andrew Marvel - To His Coy mistress
2. Dryden – Portrait of Achitophel (Absalom and Achitophel Lines 150 -229)
3. Alexander Pope - The Character of Atticus ( From Epistle to Dr.
Arbuthnot)
( Five Centuries of Poetry ed. C. N. Ramachandran , Macmillan)
English Poetry: A kaleidoscope, University Press)
Unit IV Drama
1. William Congreve – The Way of the World
Unit V Fiction
1. John Bunyan – Pilgrim’s Progress ( first part only)
ARA4B History of English Language
Unit I
Proto Indo European – Eastern and Western Group of PIE – The descent of English from PIE
– Common features of PIE languages
English as a Germanic language – Common features - Great consonant shift, Verbal
structure, Teutonic stress
Important landmarks in the evolution of English - The reasons for the erection of the
landmarks
Unit II
Old English – Anglo Saxon invasion, Viking invasion, , Wessex Dialect , Vocabulary ,
Spelling and Pronunciation, Inflection, Word Order, Gender, I Mutation and Vowel
Gradation
Middle English - Norman Invasion and the evolution of English, East Midland dialect,
Vocabulary, Inflection, Word Order, Spelling changes, Pronunciation, Gender
Modern English - The evolution of Modern English, Heterogeneous Vocabulary,
Simplified Inflectional system, Rigid Word Order, Periphrasis, Intonation,, Spelling and
Pronunciation, Gender
Unit III
Foreign Influences - Latin and Greek, French, Scandinavian
Unit IV
Word Makers - Spenser, The translators of the Bible, Shakespeare, Milton
Unit V
The growth of dictionaries
Standard English , Received Pronunciation,...