POETRY
Learning Objectives of the Course: The Course is designed to give comprehensive
knowledge on Poetry ranging from Elizabethan poets to Romantic poets and the poets of the
Indian literary scene.
PRESCRIBED TEXTS:
Unit-1: References to Context from prescribed poems in Unit 2,3,4 and 5.
Unit-2: Following Poems from A Garden of Poetry, ed. C. Ravindranath (S. Chand & Co. Ltd.)Spenser: A Wedding Song.
Shakespeare: To His Love. Remembrance
Ben Jonson: My Lady in Love’s Chariot
Donne: The Good Morrow.
Unit-3
Herbert: The Gifts of God.(The Pulley)
Milton: Paradise Lost. (Lines 1 – 126, Book I) Line By Line Explanation
Collins: Ode to Evening.
Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard. Complete Summary
Unit-4: Following Poems from The Golden Treasury of Indo-Anglian Poetry Selected and
Ed. by V.K. Gokak (Sahitya Akademi)
Henry L. Derozio: Harp of India
Rabindranath Tagore: Heaven of Freedom
Sarojini Naidu: Bangle Sellers, Village Song
Nizamat Jung: Prologue
Unit-5
Michael Madhusudan Dutt: King Porus: A Legend of Past (Video 1, Video 2, Video 3, Video 4, Video 5, Video 6, Complete Summary)
Manmohan Gosh: Can It Be
Sri Aurobindo: The Tiger and the Dear
Manjeri S. Isvaran: Again