Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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
 
Learning Outcomes-
The students will be able to:
• Trace the impact of the social, philosophical and intellectual background on the selected texts
• Critically analyse the selected poems for appreciating the canonical and representative poets of the Romantic period
 
13.00
William Wordsworth
The Prelude (Book 1)
13.00
S.T. Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Kubla Khan
10.00
Lord Byron
Darkness
Written after Swimming…
So, Well Go No More a Roving
12.00
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode on Indolence
12.00
P.B. Shelley
Ozymandias
 Ode to the West Wind
The Cloud
 Mutability
To a Skylark 
Source Books: 
 
 
 
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. 
Academic Year: 
2020-2021