Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

1.To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpretation; 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

William Blake                                                   
London                                                                        
The Tiger
                                    
William Wordsworth    
The Solitary Reaper
Daffodils

10.00

S.T. Coleridge    
Christabel - Part I

P.B. Shelley    
Ode to the West Wind

John Keats    
Ode to a Nightingale

8.00

Robert Browning    
My Last Duchess
Prospice

Alfred Tennyson                                              
Ulysses

 

9.00

Matthew Arnold    
Dover Beach
The Scholar Gypsy

G.M. Hopkins    
The Sea and the Skylark
Spring and Fall

9.00

Henrik Ibsen                                                    
A Doll’s House

Source Books: 
  1. •Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1994.
  2. •Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
  3. •Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}.  London: Clarendon Press, 1941.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. •Daiches, David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg,1960.
  2. •Bowra, C. M. The Romantic Imagination. London: Oxford University Press, 1950.
  3. •Boulton , Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  4. •Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  5. •McCalman, Iain. An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017