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Reading Poetry and Drama
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.
W. B. Yeats
A Prayer for My Daughter
Wild Swans at Coole
An Irish Airman Foresees…
Coole Park
T. S. Eliot
Preludes
Marina
W. H. Auden
Dear, though the night is …
Musee Des Beaux Arts
Lay your sleeping Head, My Love
As I Walked Out
Philip Larkin
Lines on a Young Lady’s…
At Grass
Ted Hughes
An Otter
Pike
G. B. Shaw
Arms and the Man
Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi. Macmillan, 1994. Print.
Woodhead, Chris.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. London: Oxford University Press, 1984. Print.
Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Print.
Daiches, David. A Critical History of English Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg, 1960. Print.
Watson, Peter. The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. NewYork:Perennial Harper, 2002. Print.
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982. Print.
Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970. Print.
Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print.