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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 the various forms of 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 various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
William Blake
London
The Tiger
William Wordsworth
The Solitary Reaper
Daffodils
S.T. Coleridge
Christabel - Part I
P.B. Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Prospice
Alfred Tennyson
Ulysses
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
The Scholar Gypsy
G.M. Hopkins
The Sea and the Skylark
Spring and Fall
Henrik Ibsen
A Doll’s House
Source Books:
Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.
Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}. Clarendon Press, 1941.
Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2: An Anthology of Poems. Macmillan, 1994.
Suggested Readings:
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.
Bowra, C. M.The Romantic Imagination. Oxford University Press, 1950.
Daiches,David. A Critical History of English Literature. Vol 1to 4. Secker & Warburg, 1960.
Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . Oxford University Press, 2001.
McCalman, Iain.An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford University Press, 2001.