The students will: CO63. Examine 20th century British literature in terms of the impact of political and social milieu of the century on the poetic outputs of the age CO64.Compare and contrast the moral and literary aspects of 20th century poetry and drama and the influence of various schools of thought on the selected texts CO65.Defend and explain the literary techniques and style of 20th century literary works and be familiar with the idea of modernism in the literary works CO66.Associate the basic elements of poetry such as diction, tone, imagery, figures of speech, symbolism and theme to apply styles and concerns of the writers. CO67.Analyse the evolution of the liberal modern literature related to the social changes of time |
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming
When You are Old
A Prayer for My Daughter
Easter 1916
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Portrait of a Lady
Preludes
Rupert Brooke
The Soldier
The Dead (I & II)
Wilfred Owen
Strange Meeting
Anthem for Doomed Youth
John Galsworthy
Justice
J.M. Barrie
The Admirable Crichton
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.
e-Resources:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qEDBEdBns38 (Modernist Poetry)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y7zJeLyAKQ (Modern Poetry)
Journals:
Modern Drama
Poetics Today