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Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-I [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 313
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

13.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

W.B. Yeats  

The Second Coming

When You are Old

A Prayer for My Daughter

Easter 1916

13.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

T.S. Eliot

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

Portrait of a Lady

Preludes

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Rupert Brooke 

The Soldier

The Dead (I & II)

 

Wilfred Owen        

Strange Meeting

Anthem for Doomed Youth

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Galsworthy 

Justice

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

J.M. Barrie   

The Admirable Crichton

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  •  Boris Ford ed. Pelican Guide to English Literature (vol. 8 ) 
  • James Hall & Martin Steinmann: The Permanence of Yeats (Collier Books, New York).
  • A. Norman Jeffares : Yeats’ Selected Poems.
  • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS)
  • F.D. Matthiessen : The Achievement of T.S. Eliot
  • F.R. Levis : New Bearings in English Poetry
  • B.C. Southam : T.S. Eliot ‘Prufrock’, ‘Gerontion’, ‘Ash Wednesday’ and Other Shorter   Poems - A Case Book
  • Norton Anthology of Poetry
Academic Year: 
2014-2015 [2]

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