Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60
Max. Marks: 
100
14.00
Unit I: 

Matthew Arnold

  • 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
  • Meeting at Night
  • Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

 

12.00
Unit III: 

Alfred Tennyson

  • Alfred Tennyson
  • The Lotos Eaters 
  • Ulysses
  • The Lady of Shalott
  •  All Things Will Die

 

12.00
Unit IV: 

G.M. Hopkins

  • Spring and Fall 
  • Pied Beauty
  • Carrion Comfort 
  • The Windhover
  •  Felix Randall
  • God’s Grandeur
10.00
Unit V: 

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.

 

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVBQaAx5OOE&t=2s (Arnold)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79eHrekn_bc (Hopkins)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzTC6RlnkVs (Wilde)

 

Journals:

English studies

LIT Literature Interpretation Theory

 

Academic Year: 
2023-2024