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Reading Poetry and Drama
- To introduce various literary forms in poetry and drama; poetic devices and strategies
- To enable familiarity with the literary age / period; their salient features and individual style of the representative writers
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
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)
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
The Merchant of Venice
Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan India, 1994.
Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.
Spenser, Edmund. Edmund Spenser's Poetry. Ed. Anne Lake Prescott and Andrew Hadfield. W. W. Norton, 2000.
Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poetry. Penguin Classics, 1960.
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning, 2014.
Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
Scholes, Robert. Elements of Drama. OUP, 1981.
Nayar, Pramod K. Short History of English Literature. CUP, 2009.