Romantic Poetry

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Identify the traits and explain the origins of Romantic Poetry with a detailed study of significance of nature in Romantic poetry
  • Examine the predominance of imagination in poetry
  • Be acquainted with the spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as depicted in Romantic poetry
14.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

William Wordsworth                               

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

The World is Too Much With Us

Ode to Duty

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

S.T. Coleridge

Christabel Part- I

Frost at Midnight

Dejection : An Ode

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Lord G. G. Byron                                                          

She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

Prometheus

On this Day I Complete…

14.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

P. B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

Ozymandias

When the Lamp…

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

John Keats 

The Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

Source Books: 

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. WW Norton, 1983.

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

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Bone, Drummard. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. CUP, 2006.

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.

Gill, Stephen. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. CUP, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. CUP, 2006.

Newlyn, Lucy. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. CUP, 2002.

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

Wolfson, Susan J. The Cambridge Companion to Keats. CUP, 2001.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022