Pedagogy is the science (and an art) of teaching. There is a general perception that literature is particularly complex and in accessible for the second/foreign language learner and can even be detrimental to the process of language learning. Teachers usually use an array of teaching strategies to make their lecture effective and communicative. The strategies of the teacher vary according to the level of the learners along with the skill s/he wants to teach. They need variety in order to reach all the students in the class. At the end after using lots of strategies, the question remains the same i.e. how will the teachers know that students truly understands and apply knowledge in an meaningful way? No doubt, the pedagogy is the answer of all these questions. Through this paper I have tried to explore not only the “how” of teaching English literature but the “what” and the “why” also.