Nineteenth Century - Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
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 1

Alfred Tennyson 

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

Break, Break, Break

11.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Matthew Arnold 

Dover Beach

Thyrsis

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

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 4

Elizabeth B. Browning

To George Sand:

  • A Recognition
  • A Desire

Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22

8.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermere’s Fan

Source Books: 
  • Fifteen Poets(OUP)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dicknes to Hardy)
  • G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature
  • Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era
  • B. Dobree : The Victorians and After
  • F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  • The Works of G.M. Hopkins (The Wordsworth Poetry Library)
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary TermsB. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2014-2015