Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 301
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies.

To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets

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: 

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi: Macmillan, 1994.Print. Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry.New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Print. Bennet, H.S. Fifteen poets: Chaucer, Spenser, Shakespeare [and others}. London: Clarendon Press, 1941.Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Bowra, C. M.The Romantic Imagination.London: Oxford University Press, 1950.Print.

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

Delahunty, Andrew. Dictionary of Allusions. . London: Oxford University Press, 2001.Print.

McCalman, Iain.An Oxford Companion To The Romantic Age: British Culture, 1776-1832. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001.Print.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020