American Literature – I (Prose and Poetry)

Paper Code: 
ENG 323 – A
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
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: 
Unit 1

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Self-Reliance

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Walt Whitman

Preface to the First Edition of Leaves of Grass

Crossing Brooklyn Ferry

When Lilacs Last…

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

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

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

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 5

Sylvia Plath

Ariel

Black Rook in Rainy Weather

Lady Lazarus

The Colossus

Source Books: 

Egbert, Oliver. ed. Anthology of American Literature1890-1965.New Delhi: S.Chand, 2012 .Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Dauben, Miriam. Emily Dickinson: The Death Motif in the Poetry of Emily Dickinson. Munich: GRIN Verlag, 2013. Print.

Ford, Boris.Ed.The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: American Literature (Vol.9).Harmondsworth: Penguin Books,1991. Print.

John Jacob : History of America Literature .Jaipur: Sublime Publication,2005.Print.

Martin,Linda Wagner.Critical Essays on Sylia Plath. Boston: G.K.Hall,1984.Print.

Matthiessen, Francis Otto. American Renaissance: Art and Expression in the Age of Emerson and Whitman .Oxford: OUP, 1943.Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018