British Romantic Literature

Paper Code: 
24CENG212
Credits: 
06
Periods/week: 
06
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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.

 

18.00
Unit I: 

Lord Byron

Noel Byron ‘Childe Harold’: Canto III, verses 36–45 (lines 316–405); Canto IV, verses 178–86

(lines 1594–674

20.00
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

20.00
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

14.00
Unit V: 

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

 

Academic Year: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

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
CO24.Contribute effectively in course -specific interaction