Pre-Romantics and Romantics - I

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

12.00

UNIT I

William Collins

Ode to Simplicity

 Ode to Evening

William Cowper

Castaway

Lines Written During a Period of Insanity

 

12.00
Unit II: 
Thomas Gray

Written in a Country Churchyard

 The Progress of Poesy

 

12.00
Unit III: 
William Wordsworth

The PRelude (Book I)

12.00
Unit IV: 
S. T. Coleridge

Rime of the Ancient Mariner

      Kubla Khan

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Jane Austen

Emma

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Parts 1 & 2 of Volume V of The New Pelican Guide to English Literature ed. Boris Ford

•        The Romantic Imagination: C.M. Bowra

•        Romantic Imagination: Graham Hough

•        John Wiltshire : JA – Introductions and Interventions

•            Preface to Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth

Academic Year: 
2014-2015