Victorian Literature - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 125
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
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

 

14.00
Unit I: 

Matthew Arnold The Buried Life Philomela The Scholar Gypsy Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister

12.00
Unit II: 

Robert Browning A Grammarian’s Funeral Porphyria’s Lover Andrea Del Sarto Meeting at Night

12.00
Unit III: 

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

Unit V: 

Oscar Wilde A Woman of No Importance

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baker, J.E. Re-Interpretation of Victorian Literature. Russell & Russell Publications, 1962. Chesterton, G.K.. The Victorian Age in Literature. 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

Academic Year: 
2019-2020