Twentieth Century Literature - I (Poetry & Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 322
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

•         To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

W. B . Yeats

Easter 1916

A Bronze Head

Sailing to Byzantium

The Second Coming

Lapis Lazul

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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 3

T. S. Eliot

The Wasteland

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

G. B. Shaw

Pygmalion

13.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018