Pre-Romantic Poetry

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 writers 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: 

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 WhaHae

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: 
  • 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.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018