Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
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: 
John Milton
  • On His Blindness
  • On His Twenty-Third Birthday
  • When the Assault was Intended to the City
  • On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
9.00
Unit II: 
John Dryden                            
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
 
Alexander Pope                    
Solitude
8.00
Unit III: 
James Thomson                   
Autumn
Winter (from Strings of Gold)
 
William Collins                    
Ode to Simplicity
10.00
Unit IV: 
Thomas Gray                          
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
             
William Cowper                     
Light Shining out of Darkness
10.00
Unit V: 
William Congreve

The Ways of the World

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan: India, 1994.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. London G. Bell, 1913. 352.
  2. Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019