Pre-Romantic Poetry

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

Thomas Gray                                                                

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

 

15.00

William Collins                                                           

Ode to Evening

Ode to Simplicity

 

James Thomson                                                          

Rule Britannia

 

13.00

William Cowper                                                          

The Poplar Field

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture…

Light Shining out of Darkness                                  

 

14.00

 Robert Burns                                                               

A Red, Red Rose

Ae Fond Kiss

Scots WhaHae

For A’ That and A’ That                                                

Auld Lang Syne

 

8.00

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: 

Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1995. Print.

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

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. London: OUP, 1975. Print.

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

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. London: OUP, 1950. Print.

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

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999. Print.