Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
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. Differentiate between the various styles of poetry and their characteristics
  5. Demonstrate an understanding of the contemporary forms of drama with reference to a specific playwright

 

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

William Blake 

London

The Tiger

 

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

Daffodils

 

10.00

S.T. Coleridge

Christabel - Part I

 

P.B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

 

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

 
 

 

8.00

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

Prospice

 

Alfred Tennyson     

Ulysses 

9.00

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

The Scholar Gypsy

 

G.M. Hopkins

The Sea and the Skylark

Spring and Fall

 

9.00

Henrik Ibsen

A Doll’s House

 

Source Books: 

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.

E-Resources:

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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0wgVApASNxw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=k5r80WlZoEw

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sr3nw7CZvO8&t=2999s

Academic Year: 
2022-2023