Course Objectives:

This course introduces various forms and styles of genres of poetry. Irrespective of any chronological or historical development or the hierarchy of major & minor or continental, these readings aim to highlight the variety of poetry worldwide & their possible connections if any. The aim is to ensure that students not only analyze and evaluate the aesthetic impact of individual poems but also recognize and identify poets of various commitments, styles, and periods. As far as the aim of introducing one-act play is concerned, it is to familiarize the readers with fundamentals of drama i.e. character, plot, setting and dialogue. It would prepare them for a mature understanding of drama as a popular genre in literature. Through reading, writing, discussions and various class activities, the students will be able to identify, explain and analyze the following: formal elements of literature, particularly images, diction and structural divisions of the work, themes and thematic patterns; literary periods and movements.

Contents

1. On his Blindness by Milton (Sonnet)
2. Let me not to the Marriage of true minds by Shakespeare
3.  When I am Dead my Dearest by Christina Rossetti (Song)
4. Go & Catch a Falling Star by John Donne                                               
5.  My Last Duchess by Robert Browning (Dramatic monologue/Soliloquy)
6. To be or not to be (Hamlet) by William Shakespeare                                   
7. An Elegy written in the Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray (Elegy)
8. A Refusal to mourn the Death by Fire of a Child in London by Dylan Thomas
9. La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats (Ballad),
10. O What is that Sound by W.H. Auden
11.  Ode to the West Wind by Percy .B. Shelley (Ode)
12. Ode to autumn by John Keats(Ode)
13.  Four Poems of Departure by  Ezra Pound (Free verse)
14. Smoke Screen by Amy Goldman Koss (One-act play)
15. The Bear by Anton Chekov (One-act play)
16. The Rising of the Moon by Lady Gregory

Recommended Texts

1. Hudson, W. H. (2006). An introduction to the study of literature. Delhi: Atlantic Publishers & Dist.
2. Mays, K. J. (2015). The Norton introduction to literature. New York: WW Norton & Company.

Suggested Readings

1. Baldick, C. (2015). The Oxford dictionary of literary terms. London: Oxford University Press.
2. Cuddon, J. A. (2012). A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory. Cambridge: John Wiley & Sons.
3. Long, W. J. (2015). English literature (illustrated): Its history and its significance for the life of the English-speaking world. New Delhi: Full Moon Publications

Time Table

Monday: 12:30-2:00 PM

Tuesday: 12:30-2:00 PM

 Assessment Criteria

Sessional: 20 (Presentation / Assignment, Attendance, Quiz)

Mid-Term Exam:  30

Final-Term Exam: 50