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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
- Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
Course Outcomes
The students will:
- Evaluate the literary age/ period and its salient features
- Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
- Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
John Milton
On His Blindness
On His Twenty-Third Birthday
When the Assault was Intended to the City
On the Late Massacre in Piedmont
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Alexander Pope
Solitude
James Thomson
Autumn (from Strings of Gold)
Winter(from Strings of Gold)
William Collins
Ode to Simplicity
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Cowper
Light Shining out of Darkness
William Congreve
The Way of the World
Source Books:
Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.
Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan, 1994.
Suggested Readings:
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.
Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. Bell, 1913.