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Twentieth Century Poetry and Drama-II [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 413
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
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 writers and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 

Dylan Thomas                                                              

Fern Hill

A Refusal to Mourn the Death

Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night

After the Funeral

13.00
Unit II: 

W.H. Auden                                                                    

In Memory of W.B. Yeats

September 1, 1939

Musee Des Beaux Arts

Lay Your Sleeping

13.00
Unit III: 

 

T.S. Eliot  

The Cocktail Party

12.00
Unit IV: 

D.H.Lawrence                                                               

Snake

Piano

Trees in the Garden

The Mess of Love

Last Lesson of the Afternoon

10.00
Unit V: 

Sean O’ Casey                                                                

Juno and the Paycock

Source Books: 

Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry 5th Ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • A.C. Ward : Twentieth Century Literature (Methuen & Co. Ltd. – ELBS. Print.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms 7th Ed.  Boston:  Heinle, 1999. Print.
  • Leavis, F.R. New Bearings in English Poetry. London: Chatto and Windus, 1950. Print.
  • Matthiessen, F.D.The Achievement of T.S. Eliot. London: Oxford University Press, 1958. Print.
  • Saqar, Keith. The Art of D.H. Lawrence. Cambridge UP: UK, 1996. Print.
  • Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. Cambridge: CUP, 2005. Print.
Academic Year: 
2019-2020 [2]

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