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Course
No: 101: Poetry I (Medieval to Pre-Romantic)
Unit
01:
Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales;
Spenser: The Faerie Queene Bk I, Shakespeare’s
sonnets (selections) [Any two]
Unit
02:
Donne: ‘The Canonization’, ‘The Exstasie’; Marvell: ‘The Garden’ ‘An Horatian Ode Upon Cromwell's
Return from Ireland’; Milton: Paradise Lost Book IV [Any two]
and
Songs of Experience, Dryden: ‘Absalom
and Achitophel’’ [Any two]
Recommended reading:
C.S. Lewis: The Discarded Image.
Hardin Craig: The Enchanted Glass.
Douglas Bush: Mythology and the Renaissance Tradition in
English Poetry.
Stephen Greenblatt:
Renaissance Self-fashioning.
Basil Willey: The Seventeenth century Background: Studies
in the Thought of the Age in
Relation to Poetry and Religion
Christopher Hill: Milton and the English Revolution.
Ian Jack: Augustan
Satire: Intention and Idiom in English Poetry 1660-1750.
Course
No: 102: Drama I (Medieval to Romantic)
Unit
01:
Everyman; Marlowe: Doctor Faustus, Jonson: Volpone (Any two)
Unit
02:
Shakespeare: King Lear, The Tempest, A Midsummer Night’s Dream
(Any two)
Unit
03:
Congreve: The Way of the World; Goldsmith:
She stoops to Conquer, Shelley: Prometheus Unbound (Any two)
Recommended reading:
Richard
Beadle(ed.): The Cambridge Companion to
Medieval English Theatre
E. Cassirer, P.O. Kristeller and J.H. Randall
(ed): The Renaissance Philosophy of Man.
E.K. Chambers:
William Shakespeare: A Study of Facts and
Problems
A. L. Rowse: The Elizabethan Renaissance.
L.C. Knights: Drama and Society in the Age of Jonson.
G.E. Bentley: The Jacobean and Caroline Stage.
Stanley Wells: Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare Studies
Raymond Williams: The Country and the City.
Marilyn Butler: Romantics, Rebels and Reactionaries.
Course
No: 103: (Fictional and Non-fictional Prose – 18th and 19th Centuries)
Unit
01:
Defoe: Robinson Crusoe; Fielding: Tom Jones, Sterne: Tristram Shandy (Any two)
Unit
02:
Dickens: Great Expectations, George
Eliot: Middlemarch, Hardy: Tess of the D’urbervilles, (Any two)
Unit
03:
Addison: Coverley Papers — selections; Dr. Johnson: Life of Cowley;
M.
Wollstonecraft: A Vindication of the Rights of Women [Any two]
Recommended
reading:
Ian Watt: The
Rise of the Novel.
James Clifford (ed.): Eighteenth Century Literature: Modern Essays in Criticism.
James Sambrook: The
Eighteenth Century: The Intellectual and Cultural Context of
Literature
1700-1789.
G.M. Trevelyan: English
Social History.
G.M. Young: Victorian
England: Portrait of an Age
.
Course
No: 104: Poetry II (19th Century)
Unit
01:
Wordsworth: Prelude BK I / Coleridge:
‘The Rime of the Ancient Mariner’, ‘Kubla
Khan’;/ Byron:
‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’, First Canto (Any two)
Unit 02: Keats: Induction to ‘Fall of
Hyperion’, ‘Ode to Psyche’, ‘Ode on Melancholy’/
Tennyson: In Memoriam (selections) / Matthew Arnold: The Scholar Gipsy, ‘Shakespeare’ (Any two)
Unit
03:
Browning: ‘Andrea Del Sarto’, ‘Fra Lippo Lippi’/ Hopkins: ‘Felix Randal’, ‘The
Windhover’, ‘I wake and feel’, ‘Thou art indeed Just, Lord’/
Christina Rossetti: ‘Goblin
Market’(Any two)
Recommended
reading:
Boris Ford (ed): New
Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol. 5
E. J. Hobsbawm: The
Age of Revolutions: 1789 – 1848
Stuart Curran: The
Cambridge Companion to British Romanticism
Robin Gilmour: The
Victorian Period: The Intellectual and the Cultural Context of English
Literature, 1830 –
1890
Maurice Bowra: The
Romantic Imagination
