Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
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 poets and their individual traits.

11.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

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 2

Charles Lamb

Oxford in the Vacation

Imperfect Sympathies

Dream Children

Mackery End, In Hertfordshire

(from Essays of Elia)

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

William Hazlitt

On Familiar Style

On Going a Journey

Common Sense

A Farewll to Essay-Writing

(From Table-Talk)

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018