Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
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 Wordsworth
The Prelude (Book 1)
13.00
Unit II: 
S.T Coleridge

The Rime of An Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

12.00
Unit III: 
Lord Byron

Darkness

Written after Swimming...

11.00
Unit IV: 
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
12.00
Unit V: 
P.B. Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
Mutability
When the Lamp is Shattered
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967.
  • Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997.
  • Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014.
  • Elze, Karl Friedrich. Lord Byron.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019