MA I (English) Syllabus for Poetry Paper wef June 2018

ENG: 112 & ENG: 122

ENGLISH POETRY

Objectives:
1. To acquaint the students with the most significant English Poets through the study of the
representative poems
2. To enable the students to understand the different trends in English poetry
3. To acquaint the students with different movements in English poetry
4. To train the students in the close reading of the poems prescribed
5. To enable the students to compare and contrast the poems prescribed
6. To enable the students to understand different thematic patterns, poetic structures, poetic
devices and stylistic peculiarities.
7. To develop among the students the ability to interpret, analyze and evaluate English poems in
the context of literary history and theory of different movements of poetry in English

SEMESTER – I 

ENG – 112                 Hours-60

Background Study:
The study of Elizabethan Poetry, Renaissance and Reformation Movement, Metaphysical
Poetry and Neo-Classical Movement

1. Geoffrey Chaucer: Prologue to the Canterbury Tales
2. William Shakespeare:
     i. All the World is a Stage
     ii. In Such a Night
     iii. The Lunatic, the Lover and the Poet
3. John Milton: Paradise Lost. Book-I
4. John Dryden: The Poet Shadwell
5. John Donne: The Canonization
6. Andrew Marvell: The Definition of Love
7. Alexander Pope: An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
8. Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

SEMESTER – II

ENG – 122                       Hours-60

Background Study:
The study of Romantic Movement, Victorian Age, War Poetry, Modern Poetry and The
Movement Poetry

1. William Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey
2. S. T. Coleridge: Christabel
3. P. B. Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
4. John Keats: Ode to Autumn
5. Lord Alfred Tennyson: The Lotus Eaters
6. Robert Browning: Andrea Del Sarto
7. Matthew Arnold: The Scholar Gipsy
8. T. S. Eliot: The Hollow Men
9. W. B. Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
10. W. H. Auden: Our Hunting Fathers
11. Wilfred Owen: Mental Cases
12. Dylan Thomas: Poem in October
13. Stephen Spender: The Prisoners
14. Philip Larkin: Toads
15. Thom Gunn: Considering the Snail
16. Ted Hughes: Hawk Roosting


Recommended Reading:

• Marshall, W. H. The Major English Romantic Poets. New York: Washington Square Press, Inc.,
• 1963.
• Gardener, Helen. The Metaphysical Poets. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1969.
• Wright, David. The Penguin Book of English Romantic Verse. England: Penguin Books Ltd.,
• 1968.
• Williams, H. M. Six Ages of English Poetry. London: Blackie & Son Ltd., 1967.
• Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the Thirties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1964.
• Skelton, Robin. Poetry of the forties. England: Penguin Books Ltd., 1968.
• Sachithanandan , V. Six English Poets. Madras, Delhi: Macmillan India Ltd., 1987.
• Roberts, Michael. The Faber Book of Modern Verse. London: Faber and Faber Ltd., 1965.
• Fifteen Poets. Published by OUP. Calcutta: Oxford University Press, 1974.
• Alvarez, Alfred. The School of Donne, London, 1961.
• Bennett, Joan, Four Metaphysical Poets, Cambridge, 1934.
• Cruttwell, Patrick, The Shakespearean Movement, London, 1954.
• Daiches, David, Poetry and the Modern World, Chicago, 1940.
• Fraser G.S., Essay on the 20th Century Poetry
• Frye, Northrop, T.S. Eliot, Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd; 1963
• Grierson, H. J. C. History of English Poetry
• Jeffres, Norman, W. B. Yeats: Man and Poet, London, 1949.
• Lewis C. S. English Literature in 16th Century (OUP)
• Bush Douglas. English Literature in 17th Century (OUP)
• Keast W. R. 17th Century English Poetry (OUP)
• Fraser G. S. Essay on the 20th Century Poetry
• Daiches David. Poetry and the Modern World
• Brooks and Warren. Understanding Poetry
• Cox and Dyson. Poems of This Century. Bombay: Orient Longman, `1972.

Pattern of Evaluation

Internal Evaluation-40 Marks: Two Tests of 20 marks each Per Semester

External Evaluation-60 Marks University Examination per semester 

Semester – I

Format of Question Paper

Time: Three Hours                                                                     Max.Marks-60

Question 1: Complete the following sentences choosing the correct alternative from those given
                    below (on prescribed Poems) (Twelve out of Fifteen)                               12 Marks

Question 2: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                     A or B

Question 3: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                     A or B

Question 4: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                    A or B

Question 5: Short notes on background (Two out of Four)                                            12 Marks

Semester-II

Format of Question Paper

Time: Three Hours                                                                 Max.Marks-60

Question 1: Complete the following sentences choosing the correct alternative from those given
                    below (on prescribed Poems) (Twelve out of Fifteen)                               12 Marks

Question 2: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                     A or B

Question 3: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                     A or B

Question 4: Broad question on prescribed poems.                                                         12 Marks
                    A or B

Question 5: Short notes on background (Two out of Four)                                            12 Marks