Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
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
  • Comprehend  the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

 

 

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: 

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}. Clarendon Press, 1941.

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2: An Anthology of Poems. Macmillan, 1994.

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Bowra, C. M.The Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1950.

Daiches,David.  A Critical History of English Literature. Vol 1to 4.  Secker & Warburg, 1960.

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. .  Oxford University Press, 2001.

McCalman, Iain.An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford University Press, 2001.

 

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