Friday, January 2, 2015

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




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