Objective: To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos Eaters
Ulysses
Break, Break, Break
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Thyrsis
G. M. Hopkins
Spring and Fall
The Habit of Perfection
The Sea and the Skylark
No Worst, There is None
Elizabeth B. Browning
To George Sand:
Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22
Oscar Wilde
Lady Windermere’s Fan
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