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
Unit I: 
Unit I

Alfred Tennyson     
The Lotos Eaters
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Matthew Arnold     
Dover Beach
Thyrsis

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

G. M. Hopkins     
Spring and Fall
The Habit of Perfection
The Sea and the Skylark
No Worst, There is None

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Elizabeth B. Browning    
To George Sand:
-    A Recognition
-    A Desire
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22
 

Unit V: 
Unit V

Oscar Wilde    
Lady Windermere’s Fan

Source Books: 
  1. Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936.
  2. Chesterton, G. K. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: William and Norgate, 1913.
  3. Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011.
  4. Dobree, B. The Victorians and After London: The Cresset, 1930.
  5. Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969.
  6. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
  7. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017