Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
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.
8.00
Unit I: 

John Milton

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

When the Assault was Intended to the City

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

9.00
Unit II: 

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

 

Alexander Pope

Solitude

8.00
Unit III: 

James Thomson

Autumn (from Strings of Gold)

Winter (from Strings of Gold)

 

William Collins       

Ode to Simplicity     

10.00
Unit IV: 

Thomas Gray  

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 

William Cowper 

Light Shining out of Darkness         

      

10.00
Unit V: 

William Congreve          

The Way of the World

          

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.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hudson, Willian Henry.  An Outline History of English Literature. London:G. Bell, 1913.Print.
  • Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017