American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323-A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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

 

14.00
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: 
  • Oliver: An Anthology of American Literature 1890- 1965

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • John Jacob : History of America Literature
  • J.D. Hary : Oxford Companion to American Literature (OUP, 1983).
  • American Renaissance : Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman (OUP, 1943)
  • Boris Ford: The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature Vol.9
  • Caroline Zilboorg: American Prose and Poetry in the 20th Century.
  • Miriam Dauben: Emily Dickinson: The Death Mo
  • tif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson (Grin Verlag, 2013)

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015