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Reading Poetry and Drama
Course Objectives:
The course will enable the students to:
- Evaluate the literary age / period and its salient features
- Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
- Appreciate the poetry and drama and the different literary devices
Course Outcomes
The students will:
- Recognize the literary age / period and its salient features
- Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
- Appraise and appreciate the poetry and drama and the different literary devices
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
Edmund Spenser
Fair proud
Like as a Huntsman
Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day…
One day I wrote her name upon the strand
(Sonnets from Amoretti)
William Shakespeare
Shall I Compare thee…
The Marriage of True Minds
Not Marble Nor the…..
When I Consider….
Like as the Waves …
John Donne
Death, Be not Proud
The Good Morrow
Robert Herrick
To Daffodils
George Herbert
Vertue
Redemption
William Shakespeare
The Merchant of Venice
Source Books:
Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.
Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Classics, 1960.
Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.
Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry, edited by Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton, 2000.
Suggested Readings:
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.
Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. OUP. 1981.