Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
Credits: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, and 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

Kabir                                                                  It is Needless to Ask……

                                                                                When He Himself

                                                                          The Moon Shines…

                                                                         

Rabindranath Tagore                                          Heaven of Freedom

                                                                        Freedom

                                                                        The Child (from The Golden Treasury)

 

10.00

Toru Dutt                                                        Our Casuarina Tree

 

Sarojini Naidu                                                  Indian Weavers

                                                                     Song of Radha, The Milkmaid

 

9.00

Kamala Das                     An Introduction

                                     My Grandmother’s House

                                     Spoiling the Name

8.00

Imtiaz Dharker                        A Woman’s Place 

                                             Purdah I

                                             Prayer

                                             Grace                                  

10.00

Rabindranath Tagore                      Chandalika

Source Books: 
  • Strings of Gold ( Part-III) Edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
  • Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore
  • An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry
  • The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry by V.K. Gokak

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • A Concise History of Indian Literature in English ed. By Arvind Krishna Mehrotra
  • The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English by Mohit K. Ray
  • “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Poet”: Indian Writing in English (New Delhi Atlantic& Distributiors)