Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 114
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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

Thomas Gray

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

15.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

William Collins

Ode to Evening

Ode to Simplicity

 

James Thomson

Rule Brittania

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

William Cowper

The Poplar Field

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture out of Norfolk

Light Shining out of Darkness

14.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Robert Burns

A Red, Red Rose

Ae Fond Kiss

Scots Wha Hae

For A’ That and A’ That

Auld Lang Syne

8.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

William Blake

To the Evening Star

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)

London

The Tiger

Source Books: 
  • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, Eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London, 1973)
  • Fifteen Poets (OUP)
  • Strings of Gold Part II (An Anthology of Poems), Macmillan
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (from Blake to Byron) Vol.5  Penguin
  • C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination
  • M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets
  • Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2014-2015