'English Prose: The Romantic to The Modern' is a course offered in Second Semester of B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
Major trends in essay writing–19thand 20th Centuries.
Unit 1
Charles Lamb: “Dream Children” [Detailed].
“Old China” [Non-Detailed].
Hazzlitt “On Familiar Style” [Detailed].
Leigh Hunt: “Getting up on Cold Mornings” [Non-Detailed].
Unit 2
John Ruskin:"On Books and Reading" [Detailed].
R.L.Stevenson:"An Apology for Idlers” [Detailed].
AG Gardiner:"On Saying Please" [Non-Detailed].
Stephen Leacock: “My Lost Dollar” [Non-Detailed].
Unit 3
Robert Lynd:"In Praise of Mistakes" [Detailed].
GK Chesterton: “The Worship of the Wealthy” [Detailed].
Unit 4
HillaireBelloc:"A Conversation with a Cat” [Non-Detailed].
J B Priestley: “Lectures” [Non-Detailed].
Unit 5
George Orwell:"Politics and English Language" [Detailed].
George Bernard Shaw:"Spoken English and Broken English" [Detailed].
- Nayar,M.G. A Galaxy of English Essayists. Macmillan.
- Thampi,GB. Mohan. Reflections. New Delhi: Pearson.2012.
- Gross, John . The Oxford Book of Essays . Oxford: OUP, 2008.
- Cairncross, A S. Ed. Eight Essayists.
- Board of Editors. Strings of Gold. Hyderabad: Orient BlackSwan.2008.
- Williams,W.E. A Book of English Essays. New Delhi: Penguin Books.1992.
- Klarer Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. Routledge, 2009.
- Students are recommended to refer popular anthologies and web sources.
