Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
12.00
Unit I: 
W. B . Yeats

 

Easter 1916
A Bronze Head
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Lapis Lazuli
 
10.00
Unit II: 
W. H. Auden

 

Sir, no man’s enemy
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
September 1, 1939 
O for doors to be open…
13.00
Unit III: 
T. S. Eliot

The Wasteland

12.00
Unit IV: 
G. B. Shaw

Pygmalion

13.00
Unit V: 
John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

Source Books: 

Source Books:

  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (OUP)
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd Edition (1983)

Suggested Readings:

  • H.V. Routh : Towards the 20th Century
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and this World.
  • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982).
  • Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Drama
  • Vipin Tomar:The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry,   Drama, Fiction and Criticism
  • Stephen Unwin: A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama
  • Nancy K. Gish: The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire
Academic Year: 
2018-2019