Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
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
 
14.00
Matthew Arnold
The Buried Life
Philomela
The Scholar Gypsy
12.00
Robert Browning
A Grammarian’s Funeral
Porphyria’s Lover
Andrea Del Sarto
 
12.00
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos Eaters 
Ulysses
The Lady of Shalott
10.00
G.M. Hopkins
Spring and Fall 
Pied Beauty
Carrion Comfort 
The Windhover
Felix Randall
God’s Grandeur
12.00
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baker, J.E.  Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature. United States: Russell and Russell Publications, 1962. Print.
  • Dobree, B., and E.C. Batho. The Victorians and After. London: Cresset Press, 1950. Print.
  • Buckley, J.H. The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture. New York: Psychology Press, 1966. Print. 
  • Walker, H. Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921. Print.
  • Chesterton,G.K.. The Victorian Age in Literature. Charleston: Blbliolife, 2006. Print.
  • Regan, Stephen, ed. The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. London: Routledge, 2001. Print.