Second year 2nd semi

Poetry

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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

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-   Maurreen Seneviratne, Mirage,

-   Jhumpa Lahiri: Mrs. Sen’s

-   O’Henry, The Purple Dress  

Novel

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-   George Orwell: Animal Farm

or

-   Charles Dickens: The Tale of Two Cities

Drama

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-  William Shakespeare: The Merchant of Venice

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-  Romeo and Juliet

First Year 2nd Semi

    Poetry

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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

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-   Shantan, The Cuckoo’s House

-   Nadin Gordimer, The Defeated

Novel

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-   R.K. Narayan; The Guide

or

-   Ediriweera Sarathchandra:  The curfew and the Full Moon

Drama

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-   Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman

or

-   Bernard Shaw: The Arms and the Man