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
12.00
William Collins
Ode to Simplicity
Ode to Evening
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
The Progress of Poesy
12.00
Charles Lamb
Oxford in the Vacation
Imperfect Sympathies
Dream Children
Mackery End, In Hertfordshire
(from Essays of Elia)
12.00
William Hazlitt
On Familiar Style
On Going a Journey
Common Sense
A Farewell to Essay-Writing
(from Table Talk)
12.00
Mary Shelley
Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus
12.00
Jane Austen
Emma
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Bowra, C.M. The Romantic Imagination. United Kingdom: Oxford Paperbacks, 1961. Print.
Hough, Graham. The Romantic Poets. New York: Hutchinson, 1967.
Morton, Timothy, ed. Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein. California: Routledge, 2002. Print.
Ford, Boris, ed. The New Pelican Guide to English Literature: From Blake to Byron. Vols. 1-3. New York: Penguin Books, 1999. Print.
