Reading Poetry and Drama

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry and drama; poetic devices and strategies
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends and individual style of the representative writers
9.00
Unit I: 
John Milton

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

When the Assault was Intended to the City

On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

8.00
Unit II: 

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

 

Alexander Pope

Solitude

9.00
Unit III: 

James Thomson

Autumn (from Strings of Gold)

Winter (from Strings of Gold)

 

William Collins       

Ode to Simplicity       

                 

9.00

Thomas Gray  

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

 

William Cowper 

Light Shining out of Darkness         

      

10.00
Unit V: 
William Congreve

The Way of the World

          

Source Books: 
  1. Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings  of Gold Part 1. Macmillan: India, 1994.
  2. Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton  Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton, 1996.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Hudson, Willian Henry.  An Outline History of English Literature. G. Bell, 1913.
  2. Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1982.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020