Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

12.00
Unit I: 
William Collins                     
  • Ode to Simplicity
  • Ode to Evening
Thomas Gray                         
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard                         
  • The Progress of Poesy

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Charles Lamb
  • Oxford in the Vacation
  • Imperfect Sympathies
  • Dream Children
  • Mackery End, In Hertfordshire

(from Essays of Elia)

12.00
Unit III: 
Wiiliam Hazlit
  • On Familiar Style
  • On Going a Journey
  • Common Sense
  • A Farewell to Essay-Writing

(from Table Talk)

12.00
Unit IV: 
Mary Shelley

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

12.00
Unit V: 
Jane Austen

Emma

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. United Kingdom: Oxford Paperbacks, 1961. Print.
  • Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967.
  • Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. California: Routledge, 2002. Print.
  • Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Print.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019