Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 

Objective : To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers 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: 

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS. Print.

Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999. 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.

Saqar, Keith. The Art of D.H. Lawrence. Cambridge UP: UK, 1996. Print.

Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print.

 

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