Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
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. Analyse the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
  3. Examine 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:

Pre-reading discussion on age and author, Shared Reading, Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading, Role play

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks, Practical in form of projects

 

Assignments, Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation, Observation Individual and group projects

  

 

9.00

W. B. Yeats    

A Prayer for My Daughter

Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees…

Coole Park

 

9.00

T. S. Eliot 

Preludes

Marina         

 

9.00

W. H. Auden            

Dear, though the night is …   

Musee Des Beaux Arts         

Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

As I Walked Out 

 

9.00

Philip Larkin          

Lines on a Young Lady’s…

At Grass  

 

Ted Hughes                                               

An Otter

Pike      

 

9.00

G. B. Shaw            

Arms and the Man

 
 

 

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. Macmillan, 1994.

Woodhead, Chris.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 1984.

 

Suggested Readings:

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Longman, 1970.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.

Daiches, David.  A Critical History of English Literature. Vol 1to 4. Secker & Warburg, 1960.

Watson, Peter.  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. Perennial Harper, 2002.

Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. CUP, 2005.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=xPsp7sP5ud8

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

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MlW8YCGn5mQ

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023