Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 411
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
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess 
The Laboratory
The Last Ride Together
 
9.00
D.G. Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel
The Woodspurge
Sudden Light 
The One Hope
 
9.00
C.A. Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
A Forsaken Garden
7.00
Thomas Hardy
The Voice 
Afterwards
The Darkling Thrush
I Found Her Out There
10.00
G.B. Shaw
Arms and the Man
 
Source Books: 
  1. Fifteen Poets(OUP)
  2. The Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dickens to Hardy)
  2. G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature
  3. Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era
  4. H.C. Duffin : Thomas Hardy 
  5. B. Dobree : The Victorians and After
  6. F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
  7. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  8. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English LiteraturE