Advanced Level English Literature Syllabus

         In the A/L syllabus we have Poems, Short Stories, Dramas and Novels.

                 We have to study     25 Poems
                                                06 Short Stories
                                                05 Dramas
                                                04 Novels
 

Poems -

1. Sonnet 130 - William Shakespeare
2. Sonnet 138 - William Shakespeare
3. The Good Marrow - John Donne
4. Song- Goe and catch a Falling Star - John Donne
5. Avarice - George Herbert
6. Portrait of Zimri - John Dryden
7. Rape of the Lock - Alexander Pope
8. The Tyger - William Blake
9. Ode to a Nightingale - John Keats
10. Ode to a Skylark - P.B Shelly
11. Morthe D'Arthur - Alfred Lord Tennyson
12. Felix Randal - Gerard Manley Hopkins
13. Remembrance - Emily Bronte
14. Disabled - Wilford Owen
15. Mending Wall - Robert Frost
16. Preludes - T.S. Eliot
17. Mirror - Sylvia Plath
18. My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait ... - Gwendolyn Brooks
19. Feast - Edna St. Vincent Millay
20. A Far Cry From Africa - Derek Walcott
21. Night of the Scorpion - Nissim Ezekiel 
22. Grandmother - Sitakant Mahapatra
23. The Poet - Lakdasa Wikkramasingha
24. Birds, Beasts and Relatives - Angela de Silva
25. At What Dark Point - Anne Ranasinghe 

Short Stories -

1. The Open Window -SAKI
2. The Boarding House - JAMES JOYCE
3. Hills like White Elephants - E. HEMINGWAY
4. Action and Reaction - CHITRA FERNENDO
5. Professional Mourners -ALAGU SUBRAMANIUM
6. A Temporary Matter - THUMPA LAHIRI

Dramas -

1. House of Bernarda Alba -F.G LORCA-
2. The Seagull- ANTON CHEKHOV
3. Othello - W. SHAKESPEARE
4. A Midsummer Night's Dream- W. SHAKESPEARE
5. Waiting for Godot- SAMUEL BECKETT

Novels -

1. Great Expectations - CHARLES DICKENS
2. Sense and Sensibility- JANE AUSTIN
3. The Road from Elephant Pass- NIHAL DE SILVA
4. July's People- NADINE GORDIMER