American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323-A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
10.00
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Self-Reliance 
12.00
Walt Whitman
Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
When Lilacs Last…
 
12.00
Emily Dickinson
I Felt a Funeral
A Bird Came Down the Walk
I Heard a Fly Buzz
A Light Exists in the Spring
Tell all the Truth but Tell it Slant 
 
14.00
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
After Apple-Picking 
Birches
The Road Not Taken
 
Wallace Stevens
Of Modern Poetry 
Sunday Morning
Anecdote of the Jar
 
12.00
Sylvia Plath
Ariel
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Lady Lazarus
The Colossus
Source Books: 
  1. Oliver: An Anthology of American Literature 1890- 1965
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. John Jacob : History of America Literature 
  2. J.D. Hary : Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP, 1983).
  3. American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (OUP, 1943)
  4. Boris Ford: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9
  5. Caroline Zilboorg: American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century.
  6. Miriam Dauben: Emily Dickinson: The Death Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Grin Verlag, 2013)