Week VIII: Mid-Term Exam.

Week I and II: Introduction and the background of the Victorian period; Thomas Carlyle-extracts from “Democracy” in Past and Present; Alfred Lord Tennyson “Ulysses”, “The Charge of the Light Brigade”, “The Lotus Eaters,” from “In Memoriam”.

Week III: Robert Browning – “Porphyria's Lover”, “My Last Duchess”.

Week IV: Matthew Arnold: “Dover Beach”.

Week V: Matthew Arnold: Extracts from “Scholar Gypsy” and "Culture and Anarchy".