Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 101
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies.
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets.

 

9.00
Unit I: 

Thomas Wyatt

Whoso List to Hunt

They Flee From Me

 

Christopher Marlowe

The Aspiring Mind

Beauty Inexpressible

(from The First Part of Tamburlaine, the Great)

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

8.00
Unit II: 

Edmund Spenser

Sonnet 75 - One day I wrote ….  (from Amoretti)

Prothalamion

10.00
Unit III: 

William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare thee…

The Marriage of True Minds

Not Marble Nor the…..

When I Consider….

Like as the Waves

10.00
Unit IV: 

John Donne

 Death, Be not Proud

The Good Morrow

 

Robert Herrick

To Daffodils

 

George Herbert

Vertue

Redemption

10.00
Unit V: 

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994. Print.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton: New York, 1996.Print.
  • Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry. Ed. Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton: New York, 2000.Print.
  • Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Classics: UK, 1960.Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning: Boston, 2014. Print.
  • Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.
  • Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. OUP: UK, 1981. Print.
  • Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge Universit   y Press: UK, 2009. Print.
Academic Year: 
2016-2017