Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

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

 

13.00

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: 

Allison,  Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Print.

Ford, Boris. Ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature vol. 8. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983. Print.

Hall, James & Martin Steinmann: The Permanence of Yeats. New York: Collier Books, 1961. Print.

Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1950. Print.

Matthiessen, F.D. The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Print.

Norman Jeffares A. Yeats’ Selected Poems. London: Hutchinson, 1988. Print.

Southam, B.C.  T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and Other Shorter   Poems - A Case Book. London: Macmillan, 1978. Print.

 

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