American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 - A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
10.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Ralph Waldo Emerson        
Self-Reliance

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Walt Whitman        
Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass
Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
When Lilacs Last…

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

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

Unit IV: 
Unit IV

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
Unit V: 
Unit V

Sylvia Plath        
Ariel
Black Rook in Rainy Weather
Lady Lazarus
The Colossus

Source Books: 
  1. Egbert, Oliver. Ed. An Anthology of American Literature 1890- 1965. New Delhi: S. Chand & Co., 2002.   
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Jacob, John. History of American Literature. Jaipur: Sublime Publications, 2005.  
  2. Hary, J.D. Oxford Companion to American Literature. Oxford: OUP,1983.
  3. Matthiessen, Francis Otto. American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman. Oxford: OUP, 1943.
  4. Ford, Boris. Ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature (Vol.9). Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1991.
  5. Zilboorg, Caroline. American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000.
  6. Dauben, Miriam. Emily Dickinson: The Death Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Munich: GRIN Verlag, 2013.
  7. Martin, Linda Wagner. Critical Essays on Sylvia Plath. Boston: G.K.Hall,1984.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017