Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
12.00

W. B . Yeats         
Easter 1916
A Bronze Head
Sailing to Byzantium
The Second Coming
Lapis Lazuli
             

10.00

W. H. Auden        
Sir, no man’s enemy
In Memory of W. B. Yeats
September 1, 1939
O for doors to be open…
 

13.00

T. S. Eliot        
The Wasteland

12.00

G. B. Shaw        
Pygmalion
 

13.00

John Osborne        
Look Back in Anger

Source Books: 
  1. Woodhead, Chris. Ed. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. New York: OUP, 1984.
  2. Allison, Alexander. The Norton Anthology of Poetry.3rd ed. New York: W.W. Norton& Company,1983.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Routh, H.V.Towards the 20th Century: Essays in the Spiritual History of. New York: Macmillan, 1913.  
  2. Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Westport: Praeger Pubishers, 1964.  
  3. Marwick, Arthur. British Society Since 1945: Fourth Edition. 1982. New York: Penguin Books, 2003.
  4. Tomar, Vipin. The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry, Drama, Fiction and Criticism. New Delhi: Swastik Publications, 2102.
  5. Unwin, Sephen, and Carole Woddis. A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama. London: Faber and Faber, 2001.
  6. Gish, Nancy K: The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017