JAMB Recommended Textbooks For Literature In English 2022

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Drama:
1. African:
  1. Frank Ogodo Ogbeche : Harvest of Corruption
2. Non African:
  1. William Shakespeare : Othello
Prose:
1. African:
  1. Amma Darko : Faceless
2. Non-African:
  1. Richard Wright : Native Son
Poetry:
1. African:
  1. Birago Diop : Vanity
  2. Gbemisola Adeoti : Ambush
  3. Gabriel Okara : Piano and Drums
  4. Gbanabam Hallowell : The Dining Table
  5. Lenrie Peter : The Panic of Growing Older
  6. Kofi Awoonor : The Anvil and the Hammer
2. Non African:
  1. Alfred Tennyson : Crossing the Bar
  2. George Herbert : The Pulley
  3. William Blake : The School Boy
  4. William Morris : The Proud King

ANTHOLOGIES

Gbemisola, A. (2005) Naked Soles, Ibadan: Kraft
Hayward, J. (ed.) (1968) The Penguin Book of English Verse, London Penguin
Johnson, R. et al (eds.) (1996) New Poetry from Africa, Ibadan: UP Plc
Kermode, F. et al (1964) Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. II, London: OUP
Nwoga D. (ed.) (1967) West African Verse, London: Longman
Parker, E.W. (ed.) (1980) A Pageant 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. Jerry A. (2018) Sorters and Sortees Ibadan, Kraftgriots.
Jerry A. (2018) Specks In Our Eyes Ibadan, Kraftgriots.