Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 
The course will enable the students to :
• Familiarize themselves with Pre-Romantic and Romantic writers and the salient features of their writings
• Get oriented to the various forms of literature in the respective ages
• Develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected works in order to understand the theme, language, style, and the like
 
Learning Outcomes -
The students will be able to:
• Gain an understanding of Romanticism as a concept, in relation to ancillary concepts like Classicism
• Get an insight into the main characteristics of the pre-Romantic and the Romantic period
• Acquire knowledge of the social, philosophical, intellectual and literary backgrounds, including the German and the French influence
 
11.00
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Progress of Poesy
 
William Collins
Ode to Simplicity
Ode to Evening
13.00
Charles Lamb
Oxford in the Vacation
Imperfect Sympathies
Dream Children
Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
12.00
William Hazlitt
On Familiar Style
On Going a Journey
Common  Sense
Why Distant Objects Please 
12.00
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
12.00
Jane Austen
Emma
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford Paperbacks, 1961. 
Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. Penguin Books, 1999. 
Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. Hutchinson, 1967. 
Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein.  Routledge, 2002. 
Pinion,F.B. Jane Austen Companion: A Critical Survey and Reference Book. Macmillan. 1973.
 
Academic Year: 
2020-2021