Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

 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: 
Unit 2

W.H. Auden    

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

September 1, 1939

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Lay Your Sleeping…

13.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

T.S. Eliot

The Cocktail Party

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

D.H.Lawrence   

Snake

Piano

Trees in the Garden

The Mess of Love

Last Lesson of the Afternoon

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Sean O’ Casey

Juno and the Paycock

Source Books: 
  • The Norton Anthology of Poetry
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • 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
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms
  • B. Prasad : A Background to the Study of English Literature
Academic Year: 
2014-2015