Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The students will:

CO 46. Trace the impact of the social, philosophical and intellectual background on the selected texts

CO 47. Critically analyse the selected poems for appreciating the canonical and representative poets of the Romantic period

CO 48. Identify how the texts of the Romantic era differ in its structure, content and style from the literary outputs of the previous age

CO 49. Implement and imbibe the moral and social values that the prescribed texts teach

CO50.  Appreciate Romantic Poetry and explore its uniqueness in the history of English Literature

13.00
Unit I: 

William Wordsworth

The Prelude (Book 1)

13.00
Unit II: 

S.T. Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

 
10.00
Unit III: 

Lord Byron

Darkness

Written after Swimming…

So, Well Go No More a Roving

 
12.00
Unit IV: 

P.B. Shelley

Ozymandias

 Ode to the West Wind

The Cloud

 Mutability

To a Skylark

 
12.00
Unit V: 

John Keats

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to Autumn

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on Indolence

 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Cambell, Thomas. An Essay on English Poetry.Forgotton Books. 2018.

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

Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets.Hutchinson, 1967. 

Kumar, Shiv K. British Romantic Poets. Atlantic.2005.

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

 

Journals:  

Romantic Era Periodicals

E-resources:   Romantic Poetry.NPTEL-NOC IITM. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tN-R68NPsz0

 

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024