Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpretation; their effective use
  2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets

 

9.00

William Blake                       London

                                          The Tiger

William Wordsworth             The Solitary Reaper

                                         Daffodils

                                   

10.00

S.T. Coleridge                       Christabel - Part I 

P.B. Shelley                          Ode to the West Wind 

John Keats                          Ode to a Nightingale

 

8.00

Robert Browning                       My Last Duchess

                                              Prospice

Alfred Tennyson                       Ulysses 

 

9.00

Matthew Arnold                            Dover Beach

                                                  The Scholar Gypsy

G.M. Hopkins                               The Sea and the Skylark

                                                  Spring and Fall

 

9.00

Henrik Ibsen                               A Doll’s House

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1994.
  • Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
  • Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}.  London: Clarendon Press, 1941.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Daiches, David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg,1960.
  • Bowra, C. M. The Romantic Imagination. London: Oxford University Press, 1950.
  • Boulton , Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  • Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.
  • McCalman, Iain. An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.