Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 411
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
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 1

Robert Browning 

My Last Duchess

The Laboratory

The Last Ride Together

9.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

D.G. Rossetti  

The Blessed Damozel

The Woodspurge

Sudden Light

The One Hope

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

C.A. Swinburne   

The Garden of Proserpine

A Forsaken Garden

7.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Thomas Hardy

The Voice

Afterwards

The Darkling Thrush

I Found Her Out There

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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
Academic Year: 
2014-2015