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Reading Poetry and Drama [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 401
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Evaluate the literary age/ period and its salient features
    • Critically appreciate the prominent writers of the age and their individual style
    • Assess the various forms of poetry and drama and the different literary devices

W. B. Yeats    

A Prayer for My Daughter

Wild Swans at Coole

An Irish Airman Foresees…

Coole Park

T. S. Eliot 

Preludes

Marina         

W. H. Auden            

Dear, though the night is …   

Musee Des Beaux Arts         

Lay Your Sleeping Head, My Love

As I Walked Out 

Philip Larkin          

Lines on a Young Lady’s…

At Grass  

 

Ted Hughes                                               

An Otter

Pike     

G. B. Shaw            

Arms and the Man

Source Books: 

Source Books:

Allison, Barrow and Blake. Norton Anthology of Poetry. W. W. Norton & Company, 1983.

Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part 2:An Anthology of Poems. Macmillan, 1994.

Woodhead, Chris.Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Verse. Oxford University Press, 1984.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Alexander, L.G. Poetry and Prose Appreciation for Overseas Students. Longman, 1970.

Boulton, Majorie. Anatomy of Poetry.Routledge&Kegan Paul, 1982.

Daiches, David.  A Critical History of English  Literature. Vol 1to 4. Secker & Warburg, 1960.

Watson, Peter.  The Modern Mind: An Intellectual History of the 20th Century Literature: A Survey of Poetry. Perennial Harper, 2002.

Smith, Stan. Ed. The Cambridge Companion to W.H. Auden. CUP, 2005.

 

Academic Year: 
2020-2021 [2]

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