The Course will enable the students to get introduced to the main characteristics of Romanticism, to understand the theme, style, and elements of prosody and to appreciate the role of literary forms and structures in shaping a text’s meaning
William Wordsworth
The Prelude (Book 1)
S.T. Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
Lord Byron
Darkness
Written after Swimming…
So, We’ll Go No More a Roving
P.B. Shelley Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind The Cloud Mutability To a Skylark
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John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
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
The students will: CO55. Validate the impact of the social, philosophical and intellectual background on the selected texts CO56. Analyse the selected poems for appreciating the canonical and representative poets of the Romantic period CO57. Identify how the texts of the Romantic era differ in its structure, content and style from the literary outputs of the previous age CO58. Examine the moral and social values that the prescribed texts teach CO59. Appreciate Romantic Poetry for its uniqueness in English Literature |