BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges
Code Subject Title Cr. Hrs Semester
Introduction to Literature-II (Poetry and
ENG-103 3 II
One Act Plays)
Year Discipline
1 English
Aims:
This course introduces various forms and styles of the genre of poetry either written or
translated in English or translated. Irrespective of any chronological or historical
development or the hierarchy of major and minor or continental and local or classical and
popular, the main purpose of these readings is to highlight the variety of poetry worldwide
and its possible inter-connection. The readers will find here a combination of elegy, ode,
lyric, ballad, free verse, and many other types. In a way the variety of the poetic expression
informs about the sub-generic elements of verse. There is lot of scope for further analysis
and research into the secrets of versification such as tone and mood, meter, rhythm, rhyme,
and such technical details. Above all the function of this course is to aesthetically enrich the
readers with various mechanisms of musicality through words placed in poetic order. For
some background help, the teachers may introduce a diversity of poetic expression and also
consult any reference book detailing the fundamentals of poetry. As far as the aim of
introducing one act and other plays is concerned, it is to familiarize the readers with
fundamentals of drama i.e. character, plot, setting, dialogue. It would prepare them for a
mature understanding of drama as a popular genre in literature.
1. Poetry
Sonnet
Milton On His Blindness
Robert Frost The Silken Tent
Song
Christina Rossetti When I am Dead my Dearest
John Donne Go and Catch a Falling Star
Dramatic Monologue
Robert Browning My Last Duchess
Alfred Tennyson Ulysses
Elegy
Thomas Gray Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Dylan Thomas A Refusal to Mourn the Death, by Fire, of a Child in London
Elizabeth Jennings For a Child Born Dead
Ballad
John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci
W. H. Auden O What Is That Sound
Ode
Percy B. Shelley Ode to the West Wind
John Keats Ode to Autumn
Fleur Adcock For Heidi with Blue Hair
BS (4 Years) for Affiliated Colleges
Free Verse
William Carlos Williams Red Wheel Barrow
Epic
John Milton Paradise Lost (Lines 1-125)
Alexander Pope Rape of the Lock (Canto-I)
Recommended Readings:
1. Abbs, P. & Richardson, J. The Forms of Poetry. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1995.
2. Barnet, Sylvan. A Short Guide to Writing about Literature. 7th Ed. New York:
Harper and Collins, 1996.
3. Boulton, Marjorie. The Anatomy of Poetry. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1977.
4. Kennedy, X. J. Gioia, D. An Introduction to Poetry. 8th Ed. New York: Harper
Collins College Publishers, 1994.
2. Drama
Lady Gregory The Rising of the Moon
Edward Albee The Sandbox
Recommended Readings:
1. Cassady, Marsh. An Introduction to Modern One-Act Plays. USA: McGrawHill/
Contemporary, 1991.
2 . Litz, A. Walton, Menand, Louis and Rainey, Lawrence, ed. The Cambridge History of
Literary Criticism, Vol. 7: Modernism and the New Criticism. United Kingdom:
Cambridge University Press, 2006.
3. Chakraborty, Bhaktibenode. Anton Chekov, The Crusader For A Better World. India:
K.P. Bagchi & Co, 1990.
4. Kopper, Edward A. Lady Gregory: A Review of the Criticism. Modern Irish Literature
Monograph Series. Ireland: E.A. Kopper, Jr., 1991.
5. Schrank, Bernice and Demastes, William W, ed. Irish Playwrights, 1880-1995: A
Research and Production Sourcebook . London: Greenwood Press, 1997.
6. Zinman, Toby. Edward Albee (Michigan Modern Dramatists). U S A : University of
Michigan Press, 2008.
7. Roudane, M a t t h e w C . Understanding Edward Albee (Understanding
Contemporary
American Literature) USA: University of South Carolina Press, 1987.
8. Bottoms, Stephen. The Cambridge Companion to Edward Albee. (Cambridge
Companions to Literature). United K ingdom: Cambridge University Press,
2005.
9. Manheim, Michael. The Cambridge Companion to Eugene O'Neill (Cambridge
Companions to Literature).United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 1998.
Note: The recommended readings are optional and are provided to facilitate the aims
and objectives of the syllabus. They are not to be taken as text books.
