Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 214
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

13.00
Unit I: 
William Wordsworth
Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
The World is Too Much With Us
Ode to Duty
10.00
Unit II: 
S.T. Coleridge

Christabel Part- I

Frost at Midnight

12.00
Unit III: 
Lord G. G. Byron
She Walks in Beauty
When We Two Parted
Prometheus
On this Day I Complete…
 
12.00
Unit IV: 
P. B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

Ozymandias

13.00
Unit V: 
John Keats

The Eve of St. Agnes

Source Books: 
  • Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964.
  • Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1995.
  • Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Blake to Byron – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 5). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1957.
  • Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. London: OUP, 1950.
  • Gill, Stephen. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Newlyn, Lucy. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.
  • Bone, Drummard. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Wolfson, Susan J. The Cambridge Companion to Keats. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Morton, Timothy. The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
  • Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. London: OUP, 1975.
  • Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019