Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 
Objectives
1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpretation; 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: 
Unit I
William Blake                                                   London
                                                                        The Tiger 
                                    
William Wordsworth The Solitary Reaper
                                                                         Daffodils
10.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
S.T. Coleridge Christabel - Part I
 
P.B. Shelley Ode to the West Wind
 
John Keats Ode to a Nightingale
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
                                                  Prospice
 
Alfred Tennyson                        Ulysses
 
9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
                                               The Scholar Gypsy
 
G.M. Hopkins The Sea and the Skylark
                                              Spring and Fall
 
9.00
Unit V: 
Unit V
Henrik Ibsen                                                          A Doll’s House
 
Source Books: 
1. Strings of Gold ( Part-II) Edited by  Prof. Jasbir Jain (Macmillan)
2. Norton Anthology of Poetry
3. Fifteen Poets
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
1. A Critical History  of English  Literature by  David Daiches (Vols. 1-4 ) 
2. The Romantic Imagination by C. M. Bowra
3. Anatomy of Poetry by M. Boulton (OUP)
4. Dictionary of Allusions (OUP)
5. An Oxford Companion to The Romantic Age
Academic Year: 
2014-2015