Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 311
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
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 writers and their individual traits.

10.00
Unit I: 

Alfred Tennyson                                                        

The Lotos Eaters

Ulysses

 Break, Break, Break

11.00
Unit II: 

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

Thyrsis

7.00
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: 

Elizabeth B. Browning                                           

To George Sand:

  • A Recognition
  • A Desire

Sonnets from the Portuguese: 21 & 22

8.00
Unit V: 

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.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020