Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
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.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

William Wordsworth                                          

The Prelude (Book 1)

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

S.T. Coleridge                                                         

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Lord Byron                                                              

Darkness

Written after Swimming…

11.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Keats                                                               

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to Autumn

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on Indolence

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

P.B. Shelley                                                            

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

The Cloud

Mutability

When the Lamp is Shattered

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967. Print.

Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997. Print.

Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Print.

Academic Year: 
2017-2018