Pre-Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 114
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the literary age and its salient features; the representative writers and their individual style

 

13.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Gray                                                                

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Hymn to Adversity

12.00
Unit II: 

William Collins                                                           

Ode to Evening

Ode to Simplicity

Ode to Peace

15.00
Unit III: 

James Thomson

Extract from The Seasons:

Spring (Lines 1-59)

Autumn (Lines 1-52)

10.00
Unit IV: 

William Cowper                                                          

The Poplar Field

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture…

Light Shining out of Darkness

10.00
Unit V: 

William Blake                                                              

To the Evening Star

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)

London

The Tyger

Source Books: 

Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. Macmillan India, 1995.

Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. OUP, 1973.

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. OUP, 1975.

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Dover Publications, 1992.

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, 1950.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Blake to Byron – The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol 5. Pelican, 1957.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020