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Reading Poetry and Drama [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 201
Credits: 
3
Objective: 
  1. To introduce various literary forms in poetry & drama; important movements; poetic devices & strategies, & interpret; their effective use
  2. To enable familiarity with the literary ages / periods; their salient features; the trends & individual traits of the representative poets

 

8.00

John Milton                               On His Blindness 

                                               On His Twenty-Third Birthday 

                                              When the Assault was Intended to the City 

                                              On the Late Massacre in Piedmont

9.00

John Dryden                      A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day 

Alexander Pope                  Solitude

8.00

James Thomson                     Autumn 

                                            Winter (from Strings of Gold) 

William Collins                       Ode to Simplicity

10.00

Thomas Gray                            Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 

William Cowper                         Light Shining out of Darkness

10.00

William Congreve        The Way of the World

Source Books: 
  • Jain, Jasbir, ed. Strings of Gold Part 1. Macmillan: India, 1994.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Cengage Learning.
  • Ferguson, Margaret, Mary Jo Salter, and Jon Stallworthy, eds. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Hudson, Willian Henry. An Outline History of English Literature. London G. Bell, 1913. 352.
  • Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. Routledge & Kegan Paul.

 

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