Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objectives :

  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies.
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets.

 

9.00

William Blake 

London

The Tiger

 

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

Daffodils

 

10.00

S.T. Coleridge

Christabel - Part I

 

P.B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

 

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

 

8.00

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

Prospice

 

Alfred Tennyson     

Ulysses                          

9.00

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

The Scholar Gypsy

 

G.M. Hopkins

The Sea and the Skylark

Spring and Fall

 

9.00

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House

 

Source Books: 

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1994.Print.

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry.New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Print.

Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}. London: Clarendon Press, 1941.Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Daiches,David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg,1960. Print.

Bowra, C. M.The Romantic Imagination.London: Oxford University Press, 1950.Print.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.Print.

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.Print.

McCalman, Iain.An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.Print.

 

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