Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
4
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

12.00
Unit I: 
Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill 

A Refusal to Mourn the Death

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

After the Funeral
13.00
Unit II: 
W.H. Auden

In Memory of W.B. Yeats 

September 1, 1939 

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Lay Your Sleeping…
13.00
Unit III: 
T.S. Eliot

The Cocktail Party

12.00
Unit IV: 
D.H.Lawrence

Snake

Piano

Trees in the Garden

The Mess of Love
Last Lesson of the Afternoon
10.00
Unit V: 
Sean O’ Casey

Juno and the Paycock

Source Books: 

 

  • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  • F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
  • F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2018-2019