Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
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
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

10.00
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

12.00
Unit V: 

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.

                          

Academic Year: 
2019-2020