The Restoration Age –I(Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 114
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Learn the changing trends and fashions in accordance with the time in the prescribed literary works and develop critical acumen to evaluate the literary texts
  • Acquire a chronological awareness of the literary ages from Romantic period to the Modern period and to understand the socio-political events of this period

 

 

 

13.00

Thomas Gray                                                                

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Hymn to Adversity

 

12.00

William Collins                                                           

Ode to Evening

Ode to Simplicity

Ode to Peace                                                                    

 

15.00

James Thomson

Extract from The Seasons:

Spring (Lines 1-59)

Autumn (Lines 1-52)

 

10.00

William Cowper                                                          

The Poplar Field

On the Receipt of My Mother’s Picture…

Light Shining out of Darkness                                  

 

 

 

10.00

William Blake                                                              

To the Evening Star

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Innocence)

The Chimney Sweeper (from Songs of Experience)

London

The Tyger

 

Source Books: 

Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. Macmillan India , 1995.

Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1.  OUP, 1973.

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. Oxford University Press, 1964.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. OUP, 1975.

Blake, William. Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. Dover Publications, 1992.

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, 1950.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Blake to Byron – The Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol 5.Pelican, 1957.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press Publication, 1999.

 

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