Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 411
Credits: 
03
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: 
Robert Browning

My Last Duchess 

The Laboratory

The Last Ride Together
9.00
Unit II: 
D.G. Rossetti

The Blessed Damozel

The Woodspurge,

Sudden Light 

The One Hope
9.00
Unit III: 
C.A. Swinburne

The Garden of Proserpine, A Forsaken Garden

7.00
Unit IV: 
Thomas Hardy

The Voice 

Afterwards

The Darkling Thrush

I Found Her Out There
10.00
Unit V: 
G.B. Shaw

Arms and the Man

Source Books: 

 

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