Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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.
11.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

William Collins Ode to Simplicity Ode to Evening Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Progress of Poesy

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Charles Lamb Oxford in the Vacation Imperfect Sympathies Dream Children Mackery End, In Hertfordshire (from Essays of Elia)

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

William Hazlitt On Familiar Style On Going a Journey Common Sense A Farewell to Essay-Writing (from Table Talk)

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Mary Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

Unit V: 
Unit V

Jane Austen   Emma

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. United Kingdom: Oxford Paperbacks, 1961. Print.
  • Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Print.
  • Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967. Print.
  • Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. California: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017