JAMB Recommended Books for Literature in English

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JAMB Recommended Books for Literature in English

Drama:

1. African:
   •  Efua Sutherland: Marriage of Anansewa
2. Non-African:
   • Williams Shakespeare: Anthony and Cleopatra

Prose:

1. African:
   • Pede Hollist: So the Path Does not Die
   • Elma Shaw: Redemption Road
2. Non-African:
   • Susanne Bellefeuille: Path of Lucas: The Journey He Endured

Poetry:

1. African:
   • Gabriel Okara: Once Upon a Time
   • Elizabeth L.A. Kamara: New Tongue
   •  Wole Soyinka: Night
   • Niyi Osundare: Not my Business
   •  S.O.H. Afriyie-Vidza: Hearty Garlands
   • Syl Cheney-Coker: The Breast of the Sea
2. Non-African:
   • Lord Byron: She Walks in Beauty
   • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Nun's Priest Tale (shortened)
   • Fleur Adcock: The Telephone Call
   • Wilfred Wilson Gibson: The Stone

ANTHOLOGIES

• Obafemi, O. and Agoi (eds) Of shadows and Rainbows –Musings in Times of Covid (An Anthology of poems, plays and short stories) PEN Nigeria, Online
• Hayward, J. (ed.) (1968) The Penguin Book of English Verse, London Penguin
• Johnson, R.,Ker, D, Maduka,C. Obafemi,O (eds.) (1996) New Poetry from Africa, Ibadan: UP Plc
• Kermode, F. (1964) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, London: OUP
• Nduke Ofiono and Odoh Diego Okenyodo (eds) Camouflage; Best of contemporary writing from Nigeria, an anthology of new Nigerian writers, mace books association, 2021, New
• Parker, E.W. (ed.) (1980) A Peagent of Longer Poems London: Longman
• Senanu, K. E. and Vincent, T. (eds.) (1993) A Selection of African Poetry, Lagos: Longman
• Soyinka, W. (ed.) (1987) Poems of Black Africa, Ibadan: Heinemann

CRITICAL TEXTS

• Abrams, M. H. (1981) A Glossary of Literary Terms, (4th Edition) New York, Holt Rinehalt and Winston
• Emeaba, O. E. (1982) A Dictionary of Literature, Aba:  Inteks Press
• Murphy, M. J. (1972) Understanding Unseen, An Introduction to English Poetry and English Novel for Overseas Students, George Allen and Unwin Ltd.

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