Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 501
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: 

Kabir     

It is Needless to Ask……

When He Himself

The Moon Shines…

 

Aurobindo Ghosh

Bande Mataram              

Liberation

The Fear of Life and Death

 

10.00
Unit II: 

Toru Dutt     

Our Casuarina Tree

The Lotus

 

Sarojini Naidu  

Indian Weavers       

Song of Radha, The Milkmaid    

 

                         

9.00
Unit III: 

Kamala Das  

An Introduction

 My Grandmother’s House

Spoiling the Name

8.00
Unit IV: 

Imtiaz Dharker 

A Woman’s Place

Purdah I

Prayer

Grace           

10.00
Unit V: 

Rabindranath Tagore

Chandalika

Source Books: 

Gokak, V.K. The Golden Treasury of Indo- Anglian Poetry; 1828- 1965.New Delhi; SahityaAkademi, 2006. Print.

Jain, Jasbir., ed. Strings of Gold ( Part-III). New Delhi:Macmillan. Print. Lal, Ananda, and Rabindranath Tagore. Three Plays by Rabindranath Tagore. New Delhi: Rupa Publishers,1986. Print.

Narasimhaiah, C. D. An Anthology of Commonwealth Poetry. Madras: Macmillan India, 1990. Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Mehrotra, Arvind Krishna., ed. A Concise History of Indian Literature in English. Basingstoke, Hampshire: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. Print.
  • Ray, Mohit K. The Atlantic Companion to Literature in English. New Delhi: Atlantic & Distributors, 2007. Print.
  • Mishra, Binod& Sanjay Kumar. “Walking On Her Own Road: Modern Indian English Poet”: Indian Writing in English. New Delhi: Mittal Publications, 1991. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020