Romantic Poetry

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

The course will enable the students to:

  • Understand and analyze the main characteristics of Romanticism, including the origin
  • Develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected poems in order to understand the theme, style, and elements of prosody

 

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: 

John Keats                                                                  

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to Autumn

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on Indolence  

12.00
Unit V: 

P.B. Shelley Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind The Cloud Mutability To a Skylark

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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

Halmi, Nigholas. Ed. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose. W. W. Norton, 2013.

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

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

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

Academic Year: 
2019-2020