Nineteenth Century -Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

10.00
Unit I: 
Alfred Tennyson

 

The Lotos Eaters
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
11.00
Unit II: 
Matthew Arnold

 

Dover Beach

Thyrsis

7.00
Unit III: 
G. M. Hopkins

 

Spring and Fall

The Habit of Perfection

The Sea and the Skylark

No Worst, There is None

9.00
Unit IV: 
Elizabeth B. Browning

 

To George Sand:
A Recognition 
A Desire
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22
8.00
Unit V: 
Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Source Books: 

 

  • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dicknes to Hardy)
  • G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature
  • Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era
  • B. Dobree : The Victorians and After
  • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  • Fifteen Poets (OUP)
  • The Works of G.M. Hopkins (The Wordsworth Poetry Library)
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2018-2019