Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will be able to:

  1. Evaluate the literary age/ period and its salient features
  2. Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
  3. Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices
  4. Evaluate the stylistic features of poetry
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the forms, types and elements of drama

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

  

 

9.00

John Milton

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

When the Assault was Intended to the City

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

 
 

 

8.00

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

 

Alexander Pope

Solitude

 

9.00

James Thomson

Autumn (from Strings of Gold)

Winter(from Strings of Gold)

 

William Collins       

Ode to Simplicity       

9.00

Thomas Gray  

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

William Cowper 

Light Shining out of Darkness         

 

 

10.00

William Congreve          

The Way of the World

 

Source Books: 

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.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sVBKSgGlMN8

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xrkLkYsZeaE

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023