Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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

 

 

13.00
Unit I: 

W.B. Yeats                                                     

The Second Coming

When You are Old

A Prayer for My Daughter                                 

Easter 1916

13.00
Unit II: 

T.S. Eliot   

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a Lady

Preludes

 

11.00
Unit III: 

Rupert Brooke

The Soldier

The Dead (I & II)

 

Wilfred Owen

Strange Meeting

Anthem for Doomed Youth

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

John Galsworthy                                           

Justice

 

11.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

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

 

Academic Year: