Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

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.

 

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: 

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997. Print.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.

Chesterton, G. K. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: William and Norgate, 1913. Print.

Dobree, B. The Victorians and After London: The Cresset, 1930. Print.

Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap &  Co., 1936. Print.

Prasad, B.  A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999. Print.

Walker, Hugh.  Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011. Print.

 

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