Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, and interpret; their effective us
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
8.00
Unit I: 

Kabir

It is Needless to Ask……

When He Himself

The Moon Shines…

  

Rabindranath Tagore

Heaven of Freedom

Freedom

The Child (from The Golden Treasury)

10.00
Unit II: 

Toru Dutt                                                        

Our Casuarina Tree

 

Sarojini Naidu                                                  

Indian Weavers

Song of Radha, The Milkmaid

9.00
Unit III: 

Kamala Das

An Introduction

My Grandmother's House

Spoiling the Name

8.00
Unit IV: 

Imtiaz Dharker

A Woman’s Place

Purdah I

Prayer

Grace                                 

10.00
Unit V: 

Rabindranath Tagore

Chandalika

Source Books: 
  • Strings of Gold ( Part-III) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
  • Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore
  • An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry
  • The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry by V.K. Gokak
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • A Concise History of Indian Literature in English ed. By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
  • The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English by Mohit K. Ray
  • “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Poet”: Indian Writing in English (New Delhi Atlantic& Distributiors)
Academic Year: 
2017-2018