Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use

 

  1. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets

 

8.00

W. B. Yeats                               A Prayer for My Daughter

                                               Wild Swans at Coole

                                              An Irish Airman Foresees…

                                              Coole Park

9.00

T. S. Eliot                                Preludes 

                                             Marina

8.00

W. H. Auden                               Dear, though the night is ...

                                                Musee Des Beaux Arts

                                                Lay your sleeping Head, My Love

                                                As I Walked Out… 

10.00

Philip Larkin                         Lines on a Young Lady’s…

                                         At Grass

Ted Hughes                         An Otter

                                         Pike

10.00

G. B. Shaw                                                  Arms and the Man

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi. Macmillan, 1994
  • Woodhead, Chris.  Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. London : Oxford University Press, 1984.
  • Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Daiches, David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg, 1960.
  • Watson, Peter.  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. New York: Perennial Harper, 2002.
  • Boulton , Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
  • Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970.
  • Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.