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Reading Poetry and Drama
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The course will enable the students to:
- Evaluate the literary age/ period and its salient features
- Critically appreciate the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
- Assess the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
W. B. Yeats
A Prayer for My Daughter
Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees…
Coole Park
T. S. Eliot
Preludes
Marina
W. H. Auden
Dear, though the night is …
Musee Des Beaux Arts
Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love
As I Walked Out
Philip Larkin
Lines on a Young Lady’s…
At Grass
Ted Hughes
An Otter
Pike
G. B. Shaw
Arms and the Man
Source Books:
Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. Macmillan, 1994.
Woodhead, Chris.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 1984.
Suggested Readings:
Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Longman, 1970.
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Vol 1to 4. Secker & Warburg, 1960.
Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. Perennial Harper, 2002.
Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. CUP, 2005.