Pre-Romantic and Romantic Poetry - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 214
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

13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

William Wordsworth

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

The World is Too Much With Us

Ode to Duty

 

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

S.T. Coleridge 

Christabel Part- I

Frost at Midnight

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Lord G. G. Byron 

She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

Prometheus

On this Day I Complete…

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

P. B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

Ozymandias

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

John Keats 

The Eve of St. Agnes

Source Books: 
  • Fifteen Poets (OUP)
  • Strings of Gold Part II (An Anthology of Poems) Macmillan
  • Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford, ed : Pelican Guide to English Literature (from Blake to Byron)-
    Vol.5 (Penguin)
  • C.M. Bowra : The Romantic Imagination
  • Cambridge Companion Series (Wordsworth, Coleridge, Byron, Shelley, Keats)
  • M.H. Abrams : English Romantic Poets
  • Graham Hough : Romantic Imagination
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2014-2015