Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
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

 

12.00
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: 
Charles Lamb
  • Oxford in the Vacation
  • Imperfect Sympathies
  • Dream Children
  • Mackery End, In Hertfordshire

(from Essays of Elia)

 

12.00
UNIT III: 
Wiiliam Hazlit
  • On Familiar Style
  • On Going a Journey
  • Common Sense
  • A Farewell to Essay-Writing

(from Table Talk)

 

12.00
UNIT IV: 
Mary Shelley

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

 

12.00
UNIT V: 
Jane Austen

Emma

 

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

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016