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. Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983.
     
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  2. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999.
  3. Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1950.
  4. Matthiessen, F.D.The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. London: Oxford University Press, 1958.
  5. Prasad, B: A Background to the Study of English Literature. Madras: Macmillan, 1965
  6. Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005.
     
Academic Year: 
2016-2017