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Romantic Poetry [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 224
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Objectives:

The course will enable the students to:

  • To introduce the main characteristics of Romanticism, including the origin, to the students.
  • To develop skills of critical analysis and interpretation of selected poems in order to understand the theme, style, and elements of prosody.
  • To Appreciate the role of literary forms and structures in shaping a text’s meaning

 

Course Outcomes-

The students will:

  • Trace the impact of the social, philosophical and intellectual background on the selected texts
  • Critically analyse the selected poems for appreciating the canonical and representative poets of the Romantic period
  • Identify how the texts of the Romantic era differ in its structure, content and style from the literary outputs of the previous age
  • Implement and imbibe the moral and social values that the prescribed texts teach

 

13.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

William Wordsworth                                            

The Prelude (Book 1)

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

S.T. Coleridge                                                           

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Kubla Khan

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Lord Byron                                                               

Darkness

Written after Swimming…

So, Well Go No More a Roving

 

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

P.B. Shelley

Ozymandias

Ode to the West Wind

The Cloud

 Mutability

To a Skylark

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

John Keats                                                                 

Ode to a Nightingale

Ode to Autumn

Ode on a Grecian Urn

Ode on Melancholy

Ode on Indolence

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

 

Cambell, Thomas. An Essay on English Poetry.Forgotton Books. 2018.

Halmi, Nicholas, Ed. Wordsworth’s Poetry and Prose: A Norton Critical Edition.W. W. Norton, 2014.

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

Kumar, Shiv K. British Romantic Poets. Atlantic.2005.

Mahoney, John L.The English Romantics: Major Poetry and Critical Theory.  Waveland Press, 1997. 

Academic Year: 
2021-2022 [2]

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