Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
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.

14.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Matthew Arnold

The Buried Life

Philomela

The Scholar Gypsy

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Robert Browning

A Grammarian’s Funeral

Porphyria’s Lover

Andrea Del Sarto

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Alfred Tennyson

The Lotus Eaters

Ulysses

The Lady of Shalott

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

G.M. Hopkins

Spring and Fall

Pied Beauty

Carrion Comfort

The Windhover

Felix Randall

God's Grandeur

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018