Victorian Literature-I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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

 

14.00
UNIT I: 
Matthew Arnold
  • The Buried Life
  • Philomela
  • The Scholar Gypsy

 

12.00
UNIT II: 
Robert Browning
  • A Grammarian’s Funeral
  • Porphyria’s Lover
  • Andrea Del Sarto

 

 

12.00
UNIT III: 
Alfred Tennyson
  • The Lotos Eaters 
  • Ulysses
  • The Lady of Shallot      

 

10.00
UNIT IV: 
G.M. Hopkins
  • Spring and Fall 
  • Pied Beauty
  • Carrion Comfort 
  • The Windhover
  • Felix Randall
  • God’s Grandeur

 

12.00
UNIT V: 
Oscar Wilde

A Woman of No Importance

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
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.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016