Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
 
13.00
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming
When You are Old
A Prayer for My Daughter
Easter 1916
10.00
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
10.00
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier
The Dead (I & II)
 
Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting
Anthem for Doomed Youth
 
12.00
John Galsworthy
Justice
12.00
J.M. Barrie
The Admirable Crichton
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Boris Ford ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature (vol. 8 )  
  2. James Hall & Martin Steinmann: The Permanence of Yeats (Collier Books, New York).
  3. A. Norman Jeffares : Yeats’ Selected Poems.
  4. A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  5. F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
  6. F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry
  7. B.C. Southam : T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and Other Shorter   Poems - A Case Book
  8. Norton Anthology of Poetry