Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
24ENG224
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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

13.00
Unit I: 

William Wordsworth 

The Prelude (Book 1)

 

12.00
Unit II: 

S.T. Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

 

10.00
Unit III: 

Lord Byron     

Darkness

Written after Swimming…

So, We’ll Go No More a Roving

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

P.B. Shelley    

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

The Cloud

Mutability

To a Skylark

 
 

 

13.00
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: 
2024-2025
Course Outcomes: 

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
CO60.  Contribute effectively to course-specific interaction.