Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 101
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Evaluate the literary age / period and its salient features
    • Understand the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
    • Appreciate the poetry and drama and the different literary devices

 

9.00

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

Edmund Spenser

Fair proud

Like as a Huntsman

Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day…

One day I wrote her name upon the strand 

(Sonnets from Amoretti)

 

8.00

William Shakespeare

Shall I Compare thee…

The Marriage of True Minds

Not Marble Nor the…..

When I Consider….

Like as the Waves …

 

10.00

John Donne

Death, Be not Proud

The Good Morrow

 

Robert Herrick

To Daffodils

 

George Herbert

Vertue

Redemption

 

10.00

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

 

Source Books: 

Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Classics, 1960.

Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.

Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry, edited by Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton, 2000.

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.

Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2009.

Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. OUP. 1981.

 

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