The Course will enable the students to identify the origins and traits of Romantic Poetry, the role of imagination and the subjective treatment of themes and issues, as depicted in Romantic literature.
Lord Byron
Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: Canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); Canto IV, verses 178–86
(lines 1594–674
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
William Wordsworth
Tintern Abbey
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
The Rime of Ancient Mariner
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
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein
Suggested Reference Books:
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 including links:
https://interestingliterature.com/2017/01/10-of-the-best-william-blake-p... 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_Ro mantic_Poetry_by_Blake_Wordsworth_Shelley_and_Keats https://www.ijcrt.org/papers/IJCRT2007626.pdf
The students will: CO19. Infer the traits and explain the origins of Romantic Poetry with reference to representative works CO20. Develop a critical understanding of the literary texts and the ideas dealt with by the writers CO21. Recognize and deduce the spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as depicted in Romantic poetry CO22. Evaluate and appreciate nuances of the styles of representative authors in terms of the age/period of the works CO23. Estimate the literature of this Era as a critical link between the Enlightenment and Modernist literature |