Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

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

Kabir                                                                 
It is Needless to Ask……
When He Himself
The Moon Shines…
(from Tagore Omnibus IV)

Rabindranath Tagore    
Heaven of Freedom
Freedom
The Child (from The Golden Treasury)

10.00

Toru Dutt
Our Casuarina Tree
Sarojini Naidu                                                  
Indian Weavers
Song of Radha, The Milkmaid

9.00

Kamala Das  
An Introduction
My Grandmother’s House
Spoiling the Name
      

8.00

Imtiaz Dharker                                                
A Woman’s Place
Purdah I
Prayer
Grace

10.00

Rabindranath Tagore    
Chandalika

Source Books: 

1.Strings of Gold ( Part-III) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
2.Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore
3.An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry
4.The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry by V.K. Gokak
 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

1.A Concise History of Indian Literature in English ed. By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
2.The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English by Mohit K. Ray
3.“Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Poet”: Indian Writing in English (New Delhi Atlantic& Distributiors)
 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017