Pre-Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 114
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: 
Thomas Gray
  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
15.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

William Collins               

  • Ode to Evening
  • Ode to Simplicity
James Thomson                 
Rule Britannia
13.00
Unit III: 
William Cowper

The Poplar Field

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture...

Light Shining out of Darkness
14.00
Unit IV: 
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: 
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: 
  • Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. London: OUP, 1973.
  • Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1995.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Blake to Byron – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 5). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1957.
  • Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. London: OUP, 1950.
  • Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. London: OUP, 1975.
  • Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. USA: Dover Publications, 1992.
  • Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019