Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 
Objectives:
1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
 
2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets
 
8.00
Unit I: 
Unit I
W. B. Yeats                                    A Prayer for My Daughter
                                                      Wild Swans at Coole
                                                      An Irish Airman Foresees…
                                                      Coole Park
 
9.00
Unit II: 
Unit II
T. S. Eliot                                                   Preludes
                                                                   Marina
 
8.00
Unit III: 
Unit III
          
W. H. Auden Dear, though the night is … 
                                                  Musee Des Beaux Arts
                                                  Lay your sleeping Head, My Love
                                                  As I Walked Out… 
10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV
Philip Larkin                                                Lines on a Young Lady’s…
                                                                   At Grass
 
Ted Hughes                                                An Otter
                                                                   Pike
 
Unit V: 
Unit V
G. B. Shaw                                                  Arms and the Man
 
Source Books: 
1. Strings of Gold (Part- II) Edited by  Prof. Jasbir Jain (MacMillan)
2. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (OUP)
3. Norton Anthology of Poetry
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
1. A Critical History  of English  Literature by  David Daiches (Vols. 1-4 ) 
2. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry by Peter Watson
3. Anatomy of Poetry by M. Boulton (OUP)
4. Poetry  and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students by  L. G. Alexander 
 
Academic Year: 
2014-2015