Romantic Poetry

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

William Wordsworth                                          

The Prelude (Book 1)

13.00
Unit II: 

S.T. Coleridge                                                           

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

12.00
Unit III: 

Lord Byron                                                                 

Darkness

Written after Swimming…

11.00
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
When the Lamp is Shattered

Source Books: 
  • Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967. Print.
  • Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997. Print.
  • Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hough, Graham.The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967. Print.
  • Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory. United States: Waveland Press, 1997. Print.
  • Wordsworth, William.Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition. Ed. Nicholas Halmi. New York: W. W. Norton, 2014. Print.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017