Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objective :

To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain

9.00

Philip Larkin                                                                 

Church Going

 Toads

Wants

 Toads Revisited

At Grass

 

11.00

Seamus Heaney                                                           

Dedicatory Poem form Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower 

 

10.00

Ted Hughes                                                                    

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

 

10.00

John Osborne                                                                

Look Back in Anger

 

5.00

Harold Pinter                                                               

The Caretaker

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Chatterjee, Sisir Kumar. Philip Larkin: Poetry that Builds Bridges. New Delhi : Atlantic Publishers, 2006.Print.

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

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

Scolnicov, Hanna. The Experimental Plays of Harold Pinter. New York : University of D. Press, 2012. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018