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Reading Poetry and Drama
- To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
- To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
John Milton On His Blindness
On His Twenty-Third Birthday
When the Assault was Intended to the City
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Dryden A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Alexander Pope Solitude
James Thomson Autumn
Winter (from Strings of Gold)
William Collins Ode to Simplicity
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Cowper Light Shining out of Darkness
William Congreve The Way of the World
- Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan: India, 1994.
- Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
- Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton.
- Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. London G. Bell, 1913. 352.
- Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.