Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, and 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: 
Kabir                                          It is Needless to Ask……
                                                    When he Himself
                                                    The Moon Shines.......
                                                    (from Tagore Omnibus IV)
 
Rabindranath Tagore             Heaven of Freedom
                                                    Freedom
                                                    The Child (from The Golden Treasury..)
10.00
Unit II: 
Toru Dutt                                   Our Casuarina Tree
 
Sarojini Naidu                          Indian Weavers
                                                    Song of Radha, The Milkmaid
9.00
Unit III: 
Kamala Das
An Introduction
My Grandmother’s House
Spoiling the Name
8.00
Unit IV: 
Imtiaz Dharker

A Woman's Place

Purdah I

Prayer

Grace

10.00
Unit V: 
Rabindranath Tagore

Chandalika

Source Books: 
  1. Strings of Gold ( Part-III) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
  2. Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore
  3. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry by V. K. Gokak
  2. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English ed. By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019