Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
  2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
8.00
Unit I: 
W. B. Yeats
A Prayer for My Daughter
Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees…
Coole Park
9.00
Unit II: 
T. S. Eliot
Preludes
Marina
8.00
Unit III: 
W. H. Auden                             Dear, though the night is....
                                                   Musee Des Beaux Arts
                                                   Lullaby
                                                   Lay your sleeping Head, My Love
10.00
Unit IV: 
Philip Larkin                             Lines on a Young Lady’s…
                                                    At Grass
 
Ted Hughes                              An Otter
                                                    Pike
10.00
Unit V: 
G. B. Shaw

Arms and the Man

Source Books: 
  1. Strings of Gold (Part- II) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (MacMillan)
  2. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (OUP)
  3. 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