Pre-Romantics and Romantics - II

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
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: 
Unit I

John Keats                                                                Ode to a Nightingale

                                                                                   Ode to Autumn

                                                                                   Ode on a Grecian Urn

                                                                                   Ode to Melancholy

                                                                    Ode on Indolence

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

P.B. Shelley                                                              Ozymandias

                                                       Ode to the West Wind

                                                        The Cloud

                                                        Mutability

                                                      When the Lamp is Shattered

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Charles Lamb                                                           Oxford in the Vacation

                                                        Imperfect Sympathies

                                                              Dream Children

                                                        Mackery End, In Hertfordshire

                                                                 (from Essays of Elia)

 

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

William Hazlitt                                                         On Familiar Style

                                                        On Going a Journey

                                                      Common Sense

 A Farewell to Essay-Writing

         (from Table Talk)

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Mary Shelley                                           Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Timothy Morton : Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein – A Routledge Literary Source Book

  • Pre-Romanticism in English Poetry of the Eighteenth Century: A Casebook. John     Richard Watson

•         The Starlit Dome : G.W. Knight

•            Romantic Imagination : Graham Hough

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015