Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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.
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 Shalott

12.00
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: 
  • Baker, J.E.  Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature. United States: Russell and Russell Publications, 1962. Print.
  • Buckley, J.H. The Victorian Temper: A Study in Literary Culture. New York: Psychology Press, 1966. Print.
  • Chesterton, G.K.. The Victorian Age in Literature. Charleston: Blbliolife, 2006. Print.
  • Dobree, B., and E.C. Batho. The Victorians and After. London: Cresset Press, 1950. Print.
  • Regan, Stephen, ed. The Nineteenth Century Novel: A Critical Reader. London: Routledge, 2001. Print.
  • Walker, H. Literature of the Victorian Era. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1921. Print
Academic Year: 
2016-2017