Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will be able to:

CO1.     Evaluate the literary age / period and its salient features

CO2.     Distinguish the prominent writers of the age and their individual style

CO3.     Appraise and appreciate the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

CO4.     Differentiate between the various styles of poetry and their characteristics

 

CO5. Demonstrate an understanding of the contemporary forms of drama with reference to a specific playwright

9.00
Unit I: 

William Blake 

London

The Tiger

 

William Wordsworth

The Solitary Reaper

Daffodils

 

10.00
Unit II: 

S.T. Coleridge

Christabel - Part I

 

P.B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

 

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

 

8.00
Unit III: 

Robert Browning

My Last Duchess

Prospice

 

Alfred Tennyson     

Ulysses    

 

9.00
Unit IV: 

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach

The Scholar Gypsy

 

G.M. Hopkins

The Sea and the Skylark

Spring and Fall

 

9.00
Unit V: 

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.

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

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