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Reading Poetry and Drama [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Objective: 

Objectives:

  • To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies.
  • To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets.

 

 

8.00

W. B. Yeats    

A Prayer for My Daughter

Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees…

Coole Park

 

9.00

T. S. Eliot 

Preludes

Marina         

 

8.00

W. H. Auden            

Dear, though the night is …   

Musee Des Beaux Arts         

Lay your sleeping Head, My Love

As I Walked Out  

10.00

Philip Larkin          

Lines on a Young Lady’s…

At Grass  

     

Ted Hughes                                               

An Otter

Pike      

 

10.00

G. B. Shaw            

Arms and the Man     

 

Source Books: 

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. New Delhi. Macmillan, 1994. Print.

Woodhead, Chris.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. London: Oxford University Press, 1984. Print.

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1983. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Daiches, David.  A Critical History  of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. London : Secker & Warburg, 1960. Print.

Watson, Peter.  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. NewYork:Perennial Harper, 2002. Print.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982. Print.

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. London: Longman, 1970. Print.

Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print.

 

 

Academic Year: 
2017-2018 [2]

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[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/reading-poetry-and-drama-40
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2017-2018