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
Unit I: 
Unit I

Robert Browning    
My Last Duchess
The Laboratory
The Last Ride Together

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

D.G. Rossetti    
The Blessed Damozel
The Woodspurge
Sudden Light
The One Hope
 

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

C.A. Swinburne    
The Garden of Proserpine
A Forsaken Garden

7.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Thomas Hardy    
The Voice
Afterwards
The Darkling Thrush
I Found Her Out There
          

Unit V: 
Unit V

G.B. Shaw    
Arms and the Man

Source Books: 
  1. Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  2. Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Abrams, M.H.A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston:  Heinle, 1999.
  2. Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969.
  3. Chesterton, G.K. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913.
  4. Dobree, B. The Victorians and After London: The Cresset, 1930.
  5. Duffin, H.C. Thomas Hard. London: Manchester University Press, 1921.
  6. Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VI (Dickens to Hardy) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958.
  7. Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965.
  8. Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era Cambridge. London: Cambridge University Press, 1910.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017