Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 411
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

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.

 

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: 

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H.A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston:  Heinle, 1999. Print.

Buckley, F.H. The Victorian Temper. Harvard: Harvard University Press, 1969. Print.

Chesterton, G.K. The Victorian Age in Literature. London: Williams and Norgate, 1913. Print.

Dobree, B. The Victorians and After London: The Cresset, 1930. Print.

Duffin, H.C. Thomas Hardy. London: Manchester University Press, 1921. Print.

Ford, Boris ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. VI (Dickens to Hardy) Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1958. Print.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965. Print.

Walker, Hugh. Literature of the Victorian Era Cambridge. London: Cambridge University Press, 1910. Print.

 

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