Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Get introduced to the variety of new poetic voices from the 20th century
  • Understand the historical background including the socio-cultural changes in the aftermath of World War I
  • Familiarize themselves with the literary trends, techniques and issues in British literature in the early 20th century
  • Develop skills to interpret and critique the modernist canon

 

 

 

12.00
Unit I: 

W. B . Yeats

Easter 1916

A Bronze Head

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

Lapis Lazuli

10.00
Unit II: 

 

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
Unit III: 

T S Eliot

The Wasteland 

12.00
Unit IV: 

G. B. Shaw

Pygmalion

13.00
Unit V: 

John Osborne

Look Back in Anger

Source Books: 

Greenblatt, Stephen, ed. The Norton Anthology of English Literature.3rd ed. Norton Anthology, 1983. Print.

Woodhead, Chris. Ed. Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. NewYork : OUP, 1984. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Fraser, G.S. The Modern Writer and His World. Westport: Praeer Publishers, 1964. Print.
  • Gish, Nancy K. The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1988. Print.                                        
  • Routh, H.V. Towards the 20th Century: Essays in the Spiritual History. New York: Macmillan, 1983. Print.
  • Tomar, Vipin. The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry, Drama, Fiction and Criticism. New Delhi: Swastik Publications.2012.Print.
  • Unwin,Stephen, and Carole Woddis. A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama. London: Faber, 2001. Print.                                         
Academic Year: 
2019-2020