Nineteenth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 411
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
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 writers and their individual traits.

10.00
Unit I: 

Robert Browning                                                       

My Last Duchess

The Laboratory

The Last Ride Together

9.00
Unit II: 

.G. Rossetti                                                                     

The Blessed Damozel

The Woodspurge

Sudden Light

The One Hope

9.00
Unit III: 

C.A. Swinburne                                                            

The Garden of Proserpine

A Forsaken Garden

7.00
Unit IV: 

Thomas Hardy

The Voice

Afterwards

The Darkling Thrush

I Found Her Out There

10.00
Unit V: 

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

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.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020