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:
Fifteen Poets(OUP)
The Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol.VI (Dickens to Hardy)
G.K. Chesterton : The Victorian Age in Literature
Hugh Walker : Literature of the Victorian Era
H.C. Duffin : Thomas Hardy
B. Dobree : The Victorians and After
F.H. Buckley : The Victorian Temper
M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English LiteraturE