English Literature

Hidayatullah National Law University · LL.B. Semester 2 · LLB-C-201

Unit I — SHORT STORIES

Each Module to have 4 to 6 sub-topics / units · Introduction to Literature · God Sees the Truth but Waits (Leo Tolstoy) · The Nightingale and the Rose (Oscar Wilde) · The Bet (Anton Chekhov) · Subha (Tagore) · The Gift of the Magi (O Henry) · The Open Window (Saki) · The Verger (Somerset Maugham) · Toba Tek Singh (Saadat Hasan Manto)

Unit II — POETRY

Death Be Not Proud (John Donne) · On His Blindness (John Milton) · Ulysses (Alfred Lord Tennyson) · "Hope" is the Thing with Feathers (Emily Dickinson) · Where the Mind is Without Fear (Tagore) · Strange Meeting (Wilfred Owen) · I, Too (Langston Hughes) · The Unknown Citizen (W. H. Auden)

Unit III — ESSAYS

Of Studies (Bacon) · Dream Children: A Reverie (Charles Lamb) · On Saying Please (A.G. Gardiner) · Bores (E.V. Lucas)

Unit IV — LITERARY WORKS OF GREAT JURISTS

Law and Education · Lawyers- Born or made · The Treason of the Intellectual · Work – The Prerogative of Intelligence · Obedience to the Unenforceable

Unit V — SPEECHES

The Pleasure of Books – William Lyon Phelps · Portia’s Speech on Mercy – William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice) · Shylock’s Speech ‘To Bait Fish Withal’ William Shakespeare (The Merchant of Venice Act 3 Scene I) · All the World’s a Stage – William Shakespeare (As You Like It) · Polonius’ Advice to His Son – William Shakespeare (Hamlet) · Tryst with Destiny- Jawaharlal Nehru