Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 
  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Appraise the literary age / period and its salient features
    • Understand the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
    • Comprehend and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

 

9.00

John Milton

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

When the Assault was Intended to the City

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

8.00

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

 

Alexander Pope

Solitude

 

9.00

James Thomson

Autumn (from Strings of Gold)

Winter(from Strings of Gold)

 

William Collins       

Ode to Simplicity      

 

9.00

Thomas Gray  

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 

William Cowper 

Light Shining out of Darkness         

 

10.00

William Congreve          

The Way of the World

 

Source Books: 

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

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

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. Bell, 1913.

 

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