Nineteenth Century - Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
 
10.00
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos Eaters
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
 
11.00
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Thyrsis
7.00
G. M. Hopkins
Spring and Fall
The Habit of Perfection
The Sea and the Skylark 
No Worst, There is None 
9.00
Elizabeth B. Browning
To George Sand:
A Recognition 
A Desire
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22
8.00
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan
Source Books: 
  1. Fifteen Poets(OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dicknes to Hardy)
  2. G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature
  3. Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era
  4. B. Dobree : The Victorians and After
  5. F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  6. The Works of G.M. Hopkins (The Wordsworth Poetry Library)
  7. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary TermsB. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature