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Reading Poetry and Drama
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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
John Milton
On His Blindness
On His Twenty-Third Birthday
When the Assault was Intended to the City
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Alexander Pope
Solitude
James Thomson
Autumn (from Strings of Gold)
Winter(from Strings of Gold)
William Collins
Ode to Simplicity
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Cowper
Light Shining out of Darkness
William Congreve
The Way of the World
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.
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.
Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. Bell, 1913.