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Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II
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
Unit 1 (10 Hrs.)
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
The Laboratory
The Last Ride Together
Unit 2 (9 Hrs.)
D.G. Rossetti The Blessed Damozel
The Woodspurge
Sudden Light
The One Hope
Unit 3 (9 Hrs.)
C.A. Swinburne The Garden of Proserpine
A Forsaken Garden
Unit 4 (7 Hrs.)
Thomas Hardy The Voice
Afterwards
The Darkling Thrush
I Found Her Out There
Unit 5 (10 hrs. )
G.B. Shaw Arms and the Man
Source Books:
- Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
- Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983
Suggested Readings :
- Abrams, M.H.A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston: Heinle, 1999.
- Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969.
- Chesterton, G.K. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913.
- Dobree, B. The Victorians and After London: The Cresset, 1930.
- Duffin, H.C. Thomas Hard. London: Manchester University Press, 1921.
- Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VI (Dickens to Hardy) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958.
- Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965.
- Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era Cambridge. London: Cambridge University Press, 1910.