Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 101
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

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

 

9.00
UNIT I
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 
 
8.00
UNIT II
Edmund Spenser
Sonnet 75 - One day I wrote ….
                        (from Amoretti)
Prothalamion 
8.00
UNIT III
William Shakespeare Shall I Compare thee…
The Marriage of True Minds
Not Marble Nor the…..
When I Consider….
Like as the Waves …
10.00
UNIT IV
John Donne The Good Morrow
                        Death, Be not Proud
 
Robert Herrick To Daffodils
 
George Herbert Vertue
Redemption 
10.00

UNIT V

William Shakespeare The Merchant of Venice 

Source Books: 
1. Strings of Gold (Part – I) edited by Prof. Jasbir Jain
2. Norton Anthology of Poetry
3. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: A Norton Critical Edition.
4. The Metaphysical Poetry: ed. By Helen Gardener.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
1.An Outline History of English Literature by W.H. Hudson
2.A Glossary of Literary Terms by M.H. Abrams
3.The Anatomy of Poetry by Marjorie Boulton.
4.Elements of Drama by Scholls   
Academic Year: 
2014-2015