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Semester-I
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ENG-102: The Study of Poetry-I
ENG-102: The Study of Poetry-I
(w.e.f. Academic Year:2019-20)
Objectives:
1. To acquaint the students with significant Indian, English and American Poets through the study of the representative poems
2. To train the students in the close reading and critical appreciation of poems
3. To enable the students to understand different thematic patterns, poetic structures, poetic devices and stylistic peculiaritie
4. To develop the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate English poems in the context of literary history among the students
Credits: 4
External Evaluation: 60 Marks
Internal Evaluation: 40 Marks
1 Indian Poetry (20 hrs)
1 Indian Poetry (20 hrs)
1.1 Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree
1.2 Sarojini Naidu: To a Buddha Seated on a Lotus
1.3 Ravindranath Tagore: Epigrams
1.4 Aurobindo Ghosh: The Dreamboat
1.5 Nissim Ezekiel: Minority Poem
1.6 Dom Moraes: Absences
1.7 Adil Jussawalla: Silhouette
1.8 A. K. Ramanujan: Ecology
2 British Poetry (20 hrs)
2 British Poetry (20 hrs)
2.1 William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116 and 18
2.2 Edmund Spenser:
2.2.1 Amoretti LXXV: One Day I Wrote her Name
2.2.2 Iambicum Trimetrum
2.3 Sir Philip Sidney: Leave me, O Love, which reachest but to dust
2.4 John Milton:
2.4.1 From Paradise Lost Book 1 (Lines 1-26),
2.4.2 Sonnet 19: When I consider how my light is spent
2.5 John Donne: The Sunne Rising
2.6 Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
2.7 John Dryden: From Mac Flecknoe (Lines 1-63)
2.8 Alexander Pope: From The Rape of the Lock (Canto I)
3 American Poetry (20 hrs)
3 American Poetry (20 hrs)
3.1 Ralph W. Emerson : Concord Hymn
3.2 Walt Whitman : A Noiseless Patient Spider
3.3 Emily Dickinson: A Bird, came down the Walk
3.4 Ezra Pound : Salvationists
3.5 Wallace Stevens: Phases
3.6 William Carlos Williams : Proof of Immortality
3.7 Gertrude Stein: Sugar
3.8 H.D.: Evening
References:
References:
<https://www.poetryfoundation.org>
Bennett, Joan. Four Metaphysical Poets. Cambridge, 1934.
Cruttwell, Patrick. The Shakespearean Movement. London, 1954.
Daiches, David. Poetry and the Modern World. Chicago, 1940.
Fifteen Poets. Published by OUP. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1974.
Gardener, Helen. The Metaphysical Poets. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1969.
Marshall, W. H. The Major English Romantic Poets. New York: Washington Square Press, Inc., 1963.
Roberts, Michael. The Faber Book of Modern Verse. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1965.
Sachithanandan , V. Six English Poets. Madras, Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd., 1987.
Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the Forties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1968.
Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the Thirties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1964.
Williams, H. M. Six Ages of English Poetry. London: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1967.
Wright, David. The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1968.
Semester II
Semester II
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ENG-202: The Study of Poetry-II
ENG-202: The Study of Poetry-II
(w.e.f. Academic Year:2019-20)
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Objectives:
1. To acquaint the students with significant Indian, English and American Poets through the
study of the representative poems
2. To train the students in the close reading of the poems prescribed
3. To enable the students to understand different thematic patterns, poetic structures, poetic
devices and stylistic peculiarities.
4. To develop the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate English poems in the context of
literary history among the students
Credits: 4
External Evaluation: 60 Marks
Internal Evaluation: 40 Marks
1.1. R. Parthasarthy: The Stones of Bamiyan
1.2. Gieve Patel: On Killing a Tree
1.3. Arvind Mehrotra: Genealogy
1.4. Kamala Das: An Introduction
1.5. K. N. Daruwalla: Migrations
1.6. Jayanta Mahapatra: Hunger
1.7. Dilip Chitre: Prophets
2. British Poetry (20 hrs)
2. British Poetry (20 hrs)
2.1. S. T. Coleridge: Kubla Khan
2.2. P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
2.3. John Keats: Ode on Grecian Urn
2.4. Lord Tennyson: Ulysses
2.5. Robert Browning: A Grammarian’s Funeral
2.6. T. S. Eliot: Preludes
2.7. Dylan Thomas: do not go gentle into that good night
2.8. Wilfred Owen: Insensibility
2.9. Ted Hughes: On Westminster Bridge
3. American Poetry (20 hrs)
3. American Poetry (20 hrs)
3.1. Mina Loy : Human Cylinders
3.2. E. E. Cummings : [anyone lived in a pretty how town]
3.3. Hart Crane : Chaplinesque
3.4. Robert Frost : Reluctance
3.5. Langston Hughes: Crossing Jordan
3.6. Robert Lowell : Epilogue
3.7. Allen Ginsberg : Homework
3.8. Sylvia Plath : Fever 103°
References:
References:
1. <https://www.poetryfoundation.org>
2. Alvarez, Alfred. The School of Donne. London, 1961.
3. Bennett, Joan. Four Metaphysical Poets. Cambridge, 1934.
4. Cruttwell, Patrick. The Shakespearean Movement. London, 1954.
5. Daiches, David. Poetry and the Modern World. Chicago, 1940.
6. Fifteen Poets. Published by OUP. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1974.
7. Gardener, Helen. The Metaphysical Poets. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1969.
8. Howarth, Peter. British Poetry in the Age of Modernism. CUP.
9. Marshall, W. H. The Major English Romantic Poets. New York: Washington Square Press,
Inc., 1963.
10. Roberts, Michael. The Faber Book of Modern Verse. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1965.
11. Sachithanandan , V. Six English Poets. Madras, Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd., 1987.
12. Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the Forties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1968.
13. Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the Thirties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1964.
14. Williams, H. M. Six Ages of English Poetry. London: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1967.
15. Wright, David. The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse. England: Penguin Books
Ltd., 1968.
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