Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 
The course will enable the students to:
• Get  acquainted with Victorian literature by introducing them to the representative poets of the time and their style
• Familiarize themselves with the nuances of Victorian poetry and drama
• Appreciate and analyse the selected  poems and plays against the larger socio-political and religious contexts of the time
 
Learning Outcomes -
The students will be able to:
• Gain a better understanding of the transition between the writers of the Romantic period and the Modern
• Engage with the major genres and forms of English literature and develop fundamental skills required for close reading of the texts and critical thinking with regard to the contexts
 
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
Meeting at Night
Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister
12.00
Alfred Tennyson
The Lotos Eaters 
Ulysses
The Lady of Shalott
All Things Will Die
12.00
G.M. Hopkins
Spring and Fall 
Pied Beauty
Carrion Comfort 
The Windhover
Felix Randall
God’s Grandeur
10.00
Oscar Wilde
A Woman of No Importance
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Baker, J.E.  Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature. Russell and Russell Publications, 1962. 
Chesterton, G.K..The Victorian Age in Literature. Charleston:Blbliolife, 2006. 
Dobree, B., and E.C. Batho. The Victorians and After. Cresset Press, 1950. 
Ellman,Richard.The Artist as Critic: The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde.Random House.2013.
Regan, Stephen, ed. The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. Routledge, 2001. 
Swarnkar, S.K. Gerald Manley Hopkins: A Critical Study. Atlantic.2005.
 
Academic Year: 
2020-2021