Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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
 
12.00
Dylan Thomas
Fern Hill 
A Refusal to Mourn the Death
Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
After the Funeral
 
13.00
W.H. Auden
In Memory of W.B. Yeats 
September 1, 1939 
Musee Des Beaux Arts
Lay Your Sleeping…
 
13.00
T.S. Eliot
The Cocktail Party
12.00
D.H.Lawrence
Snake
Piano
Trees in the Garden
The Mess of Love
Last Lesson of the Afternoon
 
10.00
Sean O’ Casey
Juno and the Paycock
Source Books: 
  1. The Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  2. F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
  3. F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry
  4. M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  5. B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature