Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Familiarize themselves with Pre-Romantic and Romantic writers and the salient features of their writings
  • Get oriented to the various forms of literature in the respective ages
  • Develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected works in order to understand the theme, language, style, and the like

 

11.00
Unit I: 

William Collins Ode to Simplicity Ode to Evening Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard The Progress of Poesy

13.00
Unit II: 

Charles Lamb Oxford in the Vacation Imperfect Sympathies Dream Children Mackery End, in Hertfordshire

12.00
Unit III: 

William Hazlitt On Familiar Style On Going a Journey Common Sense Why Distant Objects Please

12.00
Unit IV: 

Mary Shelley Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

12.00
Unit V: 

Jane Austen Emma

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. Oxford Paperbacks, 1961.

Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. Penguin, 1999.

Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. Hutchinson,1967.

Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. Routledge, 2002.

Pinion, F.B. Jane Austen Companion: A Critical Survey and Reference Book. Macmillan,1973.

 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020