Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60
Max. Marks: 
100
11.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Gray    

  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • The Progress of Poesy

William Collins

  • Ode to Simplicity
  • Ode to Evening
13.00
Unit II: 

Charles Lamb    

  • Oxford in the Vacation
  • Imperfect Sympathies
  • Dream Children
  • Mackery End, in Hertfordshire
12.00
Unit III: 

William Hazlitt  

  • On Familiar Style
  • On Going a Journey
  • Common  Sense
  • Why Distant Objects Please
12.00
Unit IV: 

Mary Shelley

  • Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
12.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoTjbhhXNUE (Gray)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Erory940xUg (Shelley)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONZGwAv8r10 (Austen)

 

Journals:

English Literary History

Rupkatha Journal

Academic Year: 
2023-2024