American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 - A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
10.00
Unit I: 
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

12.00
Unit II: 
Walt Whitman

 

Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

When Lilacs Last…

12.00
Unit III: 
Emily Dickinson

 

I Felt a Funeral
A Bird Came Down the Walk
I Heard a Fly Buzz
A Light Exists in the Spring
Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant 
14.00
Unit IV: 

 

Robert Frost                                    Mending Wall
                                                          After Apple-Picking 
                                                          Birches
                                                          The Road Not taken
 
Wallace Stevens                            Of Modern Poetry 
                                                          Sunday Morning
                                                          Anecdote of the Jar
 

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Lady Lazarus
The Colossus
Source Books: 

Source Book:

  • Oliver: An Anthology of American Literature 1890- 1965

Suggested Readings

  • John Jacob : History of America Literature
  • J.D. Hary : Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP, 1983).
  • American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (OUP, 1943)
  • Boris Ford: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9
  • Caroline Zilboorg: American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century.
  • Miriam Dauben: Emily Dickinson: The Death Mo
  • tif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Grin Verlag, 2013)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019