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Pre-Romantic Poetry and Romantic Prose and Fiction [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 124
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

·       Appraise Pre-Romantic and Romantic writers and the salient features of their writings

·       Interpret 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

 

Course Outcomes -

The students will:

·       Develop an understanding of Romanticism as a concept, in relation to ancillary concepts like Classicism

·       Examine the main characteristics of the pre-Romantic and the Romantic period

·       Critique the social, philosophical, intellectual and literary backgrounds, including the German and the French influence

Examine various texts against historical background for a better critical understanding of  literary texts 

11.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

Thomas Gray                                                                        

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

The Progress of Poesy

 

William Collins

Ode to Simplicity

Ode to Evening

 
 

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Charles Lamb                                                                       

Oxford in the Vacation

Imperfect Sympathies

Dream Children

Mackery End, in Hertfordshire

 
 

 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

William Hazlitt                                                                    

On Familiar Style

On Going a Journey

Common  Sense

Why Distant Objects Please

 
 

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Mary Shelley                

Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Jane Austen                                                                           

Emma
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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 Books, 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: 
2021-2022 [2]

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