Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Be familiar with a selection of world classics (earlier writings) in translation
  • Gain a critical understanding of the classics and their contemporary relevance
  • Develop an insight into the wide-ranging thematic focus and stylistic treatment of the chosen texts/ authors
10.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Philip Larkin                                                              

Church Going

Toads

Wants

Toads Revisited

At Grass

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Seamus Heaney                                                        

Dedicatory Poem from Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower 

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Ted Hughes                                                                

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Osborne                                                             

Look Back in Anger

7.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Harold Pinter                                                            

The Caretaker

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: 
2021-2022