British Romantic Literature

Paper Code: 
CENG 212
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO1.      Identify the traits and explain the origins of Romantic Poetry with reference to representative works

CO2.      Develop a critical understanding of the literary texts and the ideas dealt with by the writers

CO3.      Recognize and infer the spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as depicted in Romantic poetry.

CO4. Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age/period of the works
18.00
Unit I: 

Lord George Gordon

Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: canto III, verses 36–45

(lines 316–405); canto IV, verses 178–86

(lines 1594–674)

 

18.00
Unit II: 

William Blake

The Lamb

The Chimney Sweeper (from The Songs of Innocence and The Songs of Experience)

The Tyger (The Songs of Experience)

Introduction to The Songs of Innocence

 

Robert Burns

A Bard’s Epitaph

Scots Wha Hae

A Red, Red Rose

 

18.00
Unit III: 

William Wordsworth

Tintern Abbey

Ode: Intimations of Immortality

 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Kubla Khan

The Rime of Ancient Mariner

 

18.00
Unit IV: 

Percy Bysshe Shelley

 Ode to the West Wind

Ozymandias

To a Skylark

 

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to Melancholy

Ode to a Grecian Urn

 

18.00
Unit V: 

Mary Shelley

 Frankenstein

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. OUP, 1975.

Bone, Drummard. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. CUP, 2006.

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, 1950.

Ford, Boris. ed. From Blake to Byron: The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 5).: Pelican, 1957.

Gill, Stephen. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. CUP, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. CUP, 2006.

Newlyn, Lucy. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. CUP, 2002.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press, 1999.

Wolfson, Susan J. The Cambridge Companion to Keats. CUP, 2001.

 

E-Resources :

https://interestingliterature.com/2017/01/10-of-the-best-william-blake-poems/

https://mypoeticside.com/poets/robert-burns-poems

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILwFreRzzXQ

 

Reference Journals:

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335992079_The_Realistic_Inquiry_of_Selected_Romantic_Poetry_by_Blake_Wordsworth_Shelley_and_Keats

https://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2007626.pdf

 

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