Romantic Poetry

Paper Code: 
ENG 214
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • To identify the traits and explain the origins of Romantic Poetry with a detailed study of significance of nature in Romantic poetry
  • To enable them to understand the predominance of imagination in poetry
  • To acquaint them to spiritual interpretation of nature and its educative power as depicted in Romantic poetry

 

 

 

14.00

William Wordsworth                               

Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey       

The World is Too Much With Us

Ode to Duty

 

12.00

S.T. Coleridge

Christabel Part- I

Frost at Midnight

Dejection : An Ode

 

8.00

Lord G. G. Byron                                         

She Walks in Beauty

When We Two Parted

Prometheus

On this Day I Complete…

 

14.00

P. B. Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

To a Skylark

Ozymandias

When the Lamp…

 

12.00

John Keats                                                   

The Eve of St. Agnes

To Autumn

 

Source Books: 

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 3rd Ed. WW Norton, 1983.

Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part II. Macmillan India, 1995.

Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. OUP, 1964.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Abrams, M.H. English Romantic Poets. OUP, 1975.

Bone, Drummard. The Cambridge Companion to Byron. CUP, 2006.

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. OUP, 1950.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Blake to Byron: The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 5).: Pelican, 1957.

Gill, Stephen. The Cambridge Companion to Wordsworth. CUP, 2006.

Morton, Timothy. The Cambridge Companion to Shelley. CUP, 2006.

Newlyn, Lucy. The Cambridge Companion to Coleridge. CUP, 2002.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press , 1999.

Wolfson, Susan J. The Cambridge Companion to Keats. CUP, 2001.

 

 

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