Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

1.To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
2.To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
 

8.00

W. B. Yeats                                                
A Prayer for My Daughter
Wild Swans at Coole  
An Irish Airman Foresees…
Coole Park

9.00

T. S. Eliot
Preludes
Marina

8.00

W. H. Auden
Dear, though the night is …
Musee Des Beaux Arts
Lay your sleeping Head, My Love
As I Walked Out…

10.00

Philip Larkin                                                
Lines on a Young Lady’s…
At Grass

Ted Hughes                                                
An Otter
Pike
 

G. B. Shaw                                                  
Arms and the Man

Source Books: 
  1. Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi. Macmillan, 1994
  2. Woodhead, Chris.  Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. London : Oxford University Press, 1984.
  3. Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Daiches, David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg, 1960.
  2. Watson, Peter.  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. New York: Perennial Harper, 2002.
  3. Boulton , Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  4. Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970.
  5. Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017