Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
12.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

W. B . Yeats

 

Easter 1916

A Bronze Head

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

Lapis Lazuli

 

10.00
Unit II: 
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: 
Unit III

T. S. Eliot

 

The Wasteland

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

G. B. Shaw

 

Pygmalion

 

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

John Osborne

 

Look Back in Anger

 

Source Books: 
  • Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse (OUP)
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry, 3rd Edition (1983)

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • H.V. Routh : Towards the 20th Century
  • G.S. Fraser : The Modern Writer and this World.
  • Arthur Marwick : British Society since 1945 (1982).
  • Cambridge Companion to Twentieth Century Drama
  • Vipin Tomar:The 20th Century English Literature: A Survey of Poetry,   Drama, Fiction and Criticism
  •  Stephen Unwin: A Pocket Guide to 20th Century Drama
  • Nancy K. Gish: The Wasteland: A Poem of Memory and Desire

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015