Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Be familiar with contemporary British poetry and drama; their salient features, literary movements and trends
  • Examine the works of the representative writers in terms of their style and treatment
  • Trace the emergence of pre and post war sensibility in contemporary British literature

 

Philip Larkin                                                                 

Church Going

Toads

Wants

Toads Revisited

At Grass

Seamus Heaney                                                           

Dedicatory Poem fromWintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower

Ted Hughes                                                                    

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

John Osborne                                                                

Look Back in Anger

Harold Pinter                                                               

The Caretaker

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Chatterjee, Sisir Kumar. PhilipLarkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. Atlantic Publishers, 2006.

Gifford, Terry and Neil Roberts: Ted Hughes: A Critical Study. Faber & Faber, 1981.

Lidstrom,Subanna. Nature, Environment and Poetry: Ecocriticism and Poetics of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes. Routledge, 1985.

Scolnicov, Hanna. TheExperimental Plays of Harold Pinter. University of Delaware Press, 2012.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021