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.
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
The Laboratory
The Last Ride Together
D.G. Rossetti
The Blessed Damozel
The Woodspurge
Sudden Light
The One Hope
C.A. Swinburne
The Garden of Proserpine
A Forsaken Garden
Thomas Hardy
The Voice
Afterwards
The Darkling Thrush
I Found Her Out There
G.B. Shaw
Arms and the Man
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