HERAMBA CHANDRA COLLEGE
REFERENCE BOOKS FOR ENGLISH HONS. STUDENTS
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History of English Literature
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D. Daiches : A Critical History of English Literature
B. Ford : A Guide to English Literature
A. C. Baugh : A Literary History of England
G. Sampson : The Concise Cambridge History of English Literature
E. Legouis and L. Cazamian : A History of English Literature
Edward Albert : History of English Literature
A. Compton-Rickett : A History of English Literature
Andrew Sanders : The Short Oxford History of English Literature
G.M. Trevelyan : English Social History
Michael Alexander : A History of English Literature
Bibhash Choudhury : English Social and Cultural History
Ifor Evans : A Short History of English Literature
W.V. Long : English Literature: Its History and Significance
Peter Happe (ed.) : Medieval English Drama : A Casebook
William E. Buckler : The Victorian Imagination: Essays in Aesthetic Exploration
Nicholas Howe : Beowulf – A Prose Translation
Philology
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C.L. Barber : The Story of Language
A.C. Baugh : A History of the English Language
Henry Bradley : The Making of English
Otto Jesperson : Growth and Structure of the English Language
Simon Potter : Our Language
C.L. Wrenn : The English Language
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Poetry from Elizabethan Age to the Romantic Revival
1. M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets
The Mirror and the Lamp
2. C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination
3. F.R. Leavis : Revaluation
4. Mario Praz : The Romantic Agony
5. Graham Hough : A Preface to the Romantic Poets
6. M.H. Abrams : Natural Supernaturalism
7. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
William Wordsworth
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John Burkis : Preface to Wordsworth
N. Lacey : Wordsworth’s View of Nature
F.W.H. Myers : Wordsworth
Edward Dowden : The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth
W.A. Knight : The Life of William Wordsworth
Richard Gravil : The Oxford Handbook of William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
14. G. Dekker : Coleridge and the Literature of Sensibility
15. J.L. Lowes : The Road to Xanadu
16. Seamus Perry : S.T. Coleridge: Interviews and Recollections
P.B. Shelley
17. J. Chernaik : The Lyrics of Shelley
18. B.P. Kurtz : The Pursuit of Death : A Study of Shelley’s Poetry
19. E.R. Wasserman : Shelley, A Critical Reading
John Keats
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Miriam Allot (ed.) : The Poems of John Keats
I. Jack : Keats and the Mirror of Art
M.R. Ridley : Keats’ Craftsmanship
S.C. Sengupta : Shakespeare and Keats
Cedric Watts : A Preface to Keats
Sidney Colvin : Life of John Keats
Bhabatosh Chatterjee : John Keats : His Mind and Work
J. Strachan : The Poems of John Keats
G.M. Matthews : John Keats : The Critical Heritage
William Shakespeare
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A.L. Rowse : Shakespeare’s Sonnets
R. Speaight : Shakespeare : The Man and his Achievement
Peter Ackroyd : Shakespeare : The Biography
Anna Kurian : Shakespeare
G. Greer : Shakespeare : A Very Short Introduction
Samuel Johnson : Preface to Shakespeare
Park Honan : Shakespeare : A Life
A.E. Dyson (ed.) : Shakespeare : The Sonnets , Casebook Series
Alexander Pope
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E. Sitwell : Alexander Pope
G. Tillotson : On the Poetry of Pope
R.A. Brower : Alexander Pope : The Poetry of Allusion
John Barnard : Alexander Pope : The Critical Heritage, Vol.2
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Alexander Dyce : The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
W.J. Courthope : The Works of Alexander Pope
Valerie Rumbold : The Poems of Alexander Pope
Leslie Stephen : Alexander Pope
John Milton
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E.M.W. Tillyard : Studies in Milton
C. Ricks : Milton’s Grand Style
C.A. Patrides : Milton’s Epic Poetry
W.R. Parker : Milton
Neil Forsyth : John Milton : A Biography
Richard Garnett : Life of John Milton
Edmund Fuller : John Milton
Gordon Campbell : John Milton : Life, Work and Thought
Shormishtha Panja (ed.) : Paradise Lost – Textual Application
A.W. Verity (ed.) : Paradise Lost Books I & II
C.S. Lewis : A Preface to Paradise Lost
John Donne
56. E. Hardy : Donne : A Spirit in Conflict
57. R.C. Bald : John Donne
58. Joan Bennett : Five Metaphysical Poets
Andrew Marvell
59. J.B. Leishman : The Art of Marvell’s Poetry
60. P. Legouis : Andrew Marvell : Poet, Puritan, Patriot
William Blake
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Edward Larrissy : Blake
Kathleen Raine : William Blake
Nicholas Marsh : William Blake : The Poems
Jonathan Roberts : William Blake’s Poetry
Literary Terms
65. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
66. J.A. Cuddon : Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms
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Christopher Marlowe
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F.S. Boas : Christopher Marlowe : A Biographical and Critical Study
H. Levin : The Overreacher
J.B. Stearne : Marlowe
Roma Gill (ed.): Marlowe’s Edward the Second
Stevie Simkin : Marlowe, The Plays
A. Nicoll : The Theory of Drama
William Shakespeare
7. A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy
8. G.W. Knight : The Imperial Theme
The Wheel of Fire
9. B. Evans : Shakespeare’s Comedies
10. E.K. Chambers : Shakespeare: A Survey
11. A.L. Rowse : William Shakespeare
12. Stanley Wells (ed.): Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies
13. F.E. Halliday : A Shakespeare Companion
14. R.P. Draper : Shakespeare : The Comedies
15. Susan Zimmerman : Shakespeare’s Tragedies
16. John Peck & Martin Coyle : How to Study a Shakespeare Play
17. Michael Mangan : A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies
18. Michael Mangan : A Preface to Shakespeare’s Comedies
19. Ania Loomba & Martin Orkin : Post Colonial Shakespeares
R.B. Sheridan
10. J.W. Cove : Sheridan : His Life and his Theatre
11. Peter Davison (ed.) : Sheridan : Comedies , Casebook Series
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Jane Austen
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M. Lascelles : Jane Austen and her Art
D. Mansell : The Novels of Jane Austen
J. Rees : Jane Austen : Woman and Writer
A.H. Wright : Jane Austen’s Novels
Harish Trivedi : Jane Austen: An Anthology of Recent Criticism
Essays
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A.S. Cairncross(ed.) : Eight Essayists
Michael Thorpe(ed.) : Modern Prose
F.H. Anderson : The Philosophy of Francis Bacon
E. Blunden : Charles Lamb and his Contemporaries
Bernard Crick : George Orwell Essays
Short Stories
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Michael Thorpe(ed.) : Modern Prose
J.F. Kobler : Katherine Mansfield
L.A.G. Strong : The Sacred River: An Approach to James Joyce
W.Y. Tindall : A Reader’s Guide to James Joyce
R. Ellmann : The Consciousness of Joyce
Joseph Conrad
16. Suman Bala : Joseph Conrad’s Fiction
17. V.T. Girdhari : The Novels of Joseph Conrad
18. Lalitha Ramamurthi & C.T. Indra : Joseph Conrad : An Anthology of Recent Criticism
Paper 5
Lord Tennyson
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J.H. Buckley : Tennyson: The Growth of a Poet
R.W. Hill (ed.): Tennyson’s Poetry (Norton Edition)
P. Turner : Tennyson
A. Sinfield : Alfred Tennyson
J. Kilham (ed.): Critical Essays on the Poetry of Tennyson
Robert Browning
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G.K. Chesterton : Robert Browning
N.B. Crowell : The Convex Glass
P. Drew : The Poetry of Browning
C.B. Young (ed.): Robert Browning : Poems
A. Sinfield : The Dramatic Monologue
E.B. Browning
11. A. Hayter : Mrs. Browning: A Poet’s Work and its Setting
Matthew Arnold
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K. Allott (ed.): Matthew Arnold
W.D. Anderson : Arnold and the Classical Tradition
V. Buckley : Poetry and Morality
L. Trilling : Matthew Arnold
G.M. Hopkins
16. G. Storey : A Preface to Hopkins
17. F.R. Leavis : New Bearings in English Poetry
The Common Pursuit
W.B. Yeats
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H. Bloom : Yeats
Raymond Cowell (ed.): Critics on Yeats
R. Ellman : The Identity of Yeats
J. Unterecker (ed.): A Reader’s Guide to W.B. Yeats
Yeats: A Collection of Critical Essays
T.S. Eliot
22. Manju Jain (ed.): Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot
Critical Reading of the Selected Poems of T.S. Eliot
23. Sheila Sullivan (ed.): Critics on T.S. Eliot
24. H. Gardner : The Art of T.S. Eliot
25. Colin MacCabe : T.S. Eliot
Wilfred Owen
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Edmund Blunden : War Poets: 1914-1918
D. Hibberd : Owen the Poet
D.S.R. Welland : Wilfred Owen: A Critical Study
Guy Cuthbertson : Wilfred Owen
Dylan Thomas
30. Andrew Lycett : Dylan Thomas : A New Life
31. Gwen Watkins : Dylan Thomas : Portrait of a Friend
32. Hannah Ellis : Dylan Thomas : A Centenary Celebration
Ted Hughes
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Susan Bassnett : Ted Hughes
Terry Gifford : Ted Hughes
Elaine Feinstein : Ted Hughes : The Biography of a Poet
Jonathan Bate : Ted Hughes : The Unauthorised Life
Rhetoric & Prosody
37. Arunodoy Bhattacharya : Studies in English Rhetoric and Prosody
38. R.N. Bose & T.S. Sterling : Elements of English Rhetoric and Prosody
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Novel
1. Walter Allen : The English Novel
2. M. Wheeler : English Fiction of the Victorian Period 1830-1890
3. J. Sutherland : The Longman Companion to Victorian Fiction
Charles Dickens
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A.T. Quiller-Couch : Charles Dickens and other Victorians
K.J. Fielding : Charles Dickens
C. Hibbert : The Making of Charles Dickens
J. Casey : The Violent Effigy : A Study of Dickens’ Imagination
Thomas Hardy
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David Cecil : Hardy the Novelist
R.P. Draper (ed.): Hardy: The Tragic Novels- A Casebook
F.B. Pinion : A Hardy Companion: A Guide to the Works of Thomas Hardy and their Background
Michael Millgate : Thomas Hardy : A Biography
Rama Kundu : Vision and Design in Hardy’s Major Fiction
Desmond Hawkins : Thomas Hardy
14. Margaret Drabble (ed.): The Genius of Thomas Hardy
15. William E. Buckler : The Victorian Imagination : Essays in Aesthetic Exploration
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John Osborne
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Ronald Hayman : John Osborne
A.P. Hinchcliff : John Osborne
John Russell Taylor(ed.): John Osborne: Look Back in Anger- A Casebook
J.C. Trewin : Dramatists of Today
Simon Trussler : The Plays of John Osborne: An Assessment
J.R. Brown : Modern British Dramatists
G.B. Shaw
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A. Ganz : George Bernard Shaw
A.M. Gibbs (ed.): The Art and Mind of Shaw
M. Holroyd (ed.): The Genius of Shaw
S.C. Sengupta : The Art and Mind of George Bernard Shaw
N. Grene : Bernard Shaw : A Critical View
Synge : A Critical Study of his Plays
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E. Benson : J.M. Synge
F.M. Bickley : J.M. Synge and the Irish Dramatic Movement
P.P. Howe : J.M. Synge
L.A.G. Strong : J.M. Synge
J.M. Synge
Literary Types
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F.L. Lucas (ed.) : Tragedy
Michael Mangan : A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies
Michael Mangan : A Preface to Shakespeare’s Comedies
Ingram Bywater : Aristotle’s Poetics
Susan Zimmerman : Shakespeare’s Tragedies
R.P. Draper : Shakespeare : The Comedies
Paper 8
Indian Writing in English ( including Indian Writing in English Translation )
R.K. Narayan
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C.N. Srinath : R.K. Narayan : An Anthology of Recent Criticism
Krishna Sen : Critical Essays on R.K. Narayan’s The Guide
Chhote Lal Khatri : R.K. Narayan
Harish Raizada : R.K. Narayan : A Critical Study of his Works
P.S. Sundaram : R.K. Narayan
William Walsh : R.K. Narayan
Anita Desai
7. Meena Belliappa : The Fiction of Anita Desai
8. Madhusudan Prasad : Anita Desai : The Novelist
9. B. Ramachandra Rao : The Novels of Mrs. Anita Desai
Rabindranath Tagore
10. Niharranjan Ray : An Artist in Life : A Commentary on the Life and Works of Rabindranath
Tagore
11. S.C. Sengupta : The Great Sentinel : A Study of Rabindranath Tagore
12. Edward J. Thompson : Rabindranath Tagore : His Life and Work
Amitav Ghosh
13. R.K. Dhawan(ed.) : The Novels of Amitav Ghosh
14. Novy Kapadia(ed.): Amitav Ghosh’s The Shadow Lines: Critical Perspectives
Short Story
15. K.M. George (Chief Editor): Contemporary Indian Short Stories in English & Modern Indian
Literature : An Anthology; Volume 2, Sahitya Akademi
16. C.V. Venugopal : The Indian Short Story in English : A Survey
Poetry
17. K.M. George (Chief Editor): The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry & Modern Indian
Literature : An Anthology; Volume 1, Sahitya Akademi
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Harihar Das : Life and Letters of Toru Dutt
A.N. Dwivedi : Toru Dutt
Padmini Sengupta : Toru Dutt
Chetan Karnani : Nissim Ezekiel
R. Taranath & M. Belliappa : The Poetry of Nissim Ezekiel
Devindra Kohli : Virgin Whiteness: Kamala Das’ Poetry
Monica Varma : Facing Four
Play
Sanjukta Das : Derozio to Dattani
M. Sarat Babu : Indian Drama Today
R.K. Dhawan(ed.): Recent Indian Drama in English
K.V. Reddy & R.K. Dhawan(ed.): Flowering of Indian Drama: Growth and Development
R.K. Dhawan & Tanu Pant(ed.): The Plays of Mahesh Dattani
Mahesh Dattani : Collected Plays