Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpretation; their effective use
  2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
9.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

William Blake                      London

                                       The Tiger 

                                    
William Wordsworth                The Solitary Reaper
                                                     Daffodils
10.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
S.T. Coleridge                          Christabel - Part I
 
P.B. Shelley                               Ode to the West Wind
 
John Keats                                Ode to a Nightingale
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Robert Browning                     My Last Duchess
                                                    Prospice
 
Alfred Tennyson                       Ulysses
9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Matthew Arnold                        Dover Beach
                                                    The Scholar Gypsy
 
G.M. Hopkins                            The Sea and the Skylark
                                                    Spring and Fall
9.00
Unit V: 
Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House

Source Books: 
  1. Strings of Gold ( Part-II) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
  2. Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. A Critical History of English Literature by David Daiches (Vols. 1-4 )
  2. History of English Literature (Fifth edition) by Edward Albert (OUP)
  3. Anatomy of Poetry by M. Boulton (OUP)
  4. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students by L. G. Alexander
  5. Dictionary of Allusions (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2018-2019