Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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
William Wordsworth
The Prelude (Book 1)
 
13.00
S.T. Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
 
12.00
Lord Byron
Darkness
Written after Swimming…
11.00
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode to Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
12.00
P.B. Shelley
Ozymandias
Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud 
Mutability
When the Lamp is Shattered
Source Books: 
 
  • Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967.
  • Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997. 
  • Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. 
  • Elze, Karl Friedrich. Lord Byron.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967.
  • Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997. 
  • Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. 
  • Elze, Karl Friedrich. Lord Byron.