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Reading Poetry and Drama
Objectives
1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & help to interpret their effective use
2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
Thomas Wyatt
Whoso List to Hunt
They Flee From Me
Christopher Marlowe
The Aspiring Mind
Beauty Inexpressible
(from The First Part of Tamburlaine, the Great)
The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 75 - One day I wrote …. (from Amoretti)
Prothalamion
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare thee…
The Marriage of True Minds
Not Marble Nor the…..
When I Consider….
Like as the Waves …
John Donne
The Good Morrow
Death, Be not Proud
Robert Herrick
To Daffodils
George Herbert
Vertue
Redemption
William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice
Source Books
· Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.
· Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton.
· Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry. Ed. Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton; Norton Critical Edition.
· Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Limited; New Impression Edition.
Suggested Readings
· Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. London G. Bell.
· Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
· Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.
· Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. Oxford UP, 1981.
· Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge UP, 2009.