Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Critique the elements of imagism, realism and symbolism in 20th century poetry and drama
  • Develop an insight into the decay and decadence of moral values of the modern age
  • Examine the literary techniques and style of 20th century literary works
13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

W.B. Yeats                                                                   

The Second Coming

When You are Old

A Prayer for My Daughter                                       

Easter 1916

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

T.S. Eliot   

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a Lady

Preludes

11.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

The Dead (I & II)

 

Wilfred Owen

Strange Meeting

Anthem for Doomed Youth

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Galsworthy                                                      

Justice

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

J.M. Barrie                                                            

The Admirable Crichton

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Ford, Boris. Ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature. Vol. 8.Penguin, 1983.

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

Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. Chatto & Windus, 1950.

Matthiessen, F.D. The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. OUP, 1958.

Norman Jeffares A. Yeats’ Selected Poems. Hutchinson, 1988.

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

Academic Year: 
2021-2022