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

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-   Ediriweera Sarathchandra:  The curfew and the Full Moon

Drama

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-   Arthur Miller: The Death of a Salesman

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-   Bernard Shaw: The Arms and the Man