Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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

                                             UNIT I: 

Dylan Thomas

Fern Hill 

A Refusal to Mourn the Death

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

After the Funeral

 

13.00
UNIT II: 
W.H. Auden

In Memory of W.B. Yeats 

September 1, 1939 

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Lay Your Sleeping…

 

13.00
UNIT III: 
T.S. Eliot

The Cocktail Party

 

12.00
UNIT IV: 
D.H.Lawrence

Snake

Piano

Trees in the Garden

The Mess of Love
Last Lesson of the Afternoon

 

10.00
UNIT V: 
Sean O’ Casey

Juno and the Paycock

 

Source Books: 
SOURCE BOOKS: 

 

  • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  • F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
  • F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016