Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
24ENG124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The Course will enable the students to appraise Pre-Romantic and Romantic writers and the salient features of their writings, interpret the various forms of literature in the respective ages and develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected works in order to understand the theme, language, style, and the like.

 

14.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Gray 

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The Progress of Poesy

 

William Collins

Ode to Simplicity

Ode to Evening

 

12.00
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

 

11.00
Unit IV: 

Mary Shelley  

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

 

11.00
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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

The students will:

CO19. Develop an understanding of Romanticism as a concept, in relation to ancillary concepts like Classicism

CO20. Examine the main characteristics of the pre-Romantic and the Romantic period

CO21. Critique the social, philosophical, intellectual and literary backgrounds, including the German and the French influence

CO22. Evaluate various texts against their historical background for a better, critical understanding  

CO23.  Investigate and examine texts on the basis of key themes, issues, and debates emerging in Romantic poetry, informed by philosophical and theoretical concepts constructing the literature of this age
CO24. Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction