Contemporary British Literature – I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 514
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms, their dominant features and representative writers of modern poetry, prose, drama and fiction in Britain.

 

9.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Philip Larkin                                                                 

Church Going

 Toads

Wants

 Toads Revisited

At Grass

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Seamus Heaney                                                           

Dedicatory Poem form Wintering Out

Mid-Term Break

Digging

At a Potato Digging

Follower

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Ted Hughes

Pike

View of a Pig

Hawk Roosting

Thistles

The Thought-Fox

10.00
Unit IV: 

John Osborne                                                                

Look Back in Anger

5.00
Unit V: 

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: 
2019-2020