Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 101
Credits: 
03
Objective: 

1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & help to interpret their effective use

2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets

 

9.00

Thomas Wyatt          Whoso List to Hunt

                               They Flee From Me 

Christopher Marlowe    The Aspiring Mind 

                                 Beauty Inexpressible 

                                      (from The First Part of Tamburlaine, the Great) 

                                       The Passionate Shepherd to his Love 

8.00

Edmund Spenser                      Sonnet 75 - One day I wrote ….   

                                              (from Amoretti) 

                                               Prothalamion

8.00

William Shakespeare                         Shall I Compare thee…

                                                      The Marriage of True Minds 

                                                       Not Marble Nor the…..

                                                       When I Consider….

                                                       Like as the Waves …

 

10.00

John Donne                 The Good Morrow 

                                  Death, Be not Proud 

Robert Herrick               To Daffodils  

George Herbert             Vertue 

                                   Redemption 

10.00

William Shakespeare                     The Merchant of Venice 

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton.
  • Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry. Ed. Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton; Norton Critical Edition.
  • Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Limited; New Impression Edition.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. London G. Bell.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
  • Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. Oxford UP, 1981.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge UP, 2009.