DEPARTMENT OF ENGLSH CENTRAL UNERSTY OF JAMMU Semester: Course: Poetry (14 th century to 20 th century) Course Code: MECL 101 Course Objective: The course introduces the students to poetry as a genre The course gives an overview of British poetry as it evolves from 14 th to 20 th century The course introduces the students to major British poets and how they constitute the historical and critical tradition of British poetry. Teachers in-charge: Raj Thakur: Unit, Chaucer; Unit, Milton; Unit, Keats; Unit, Browning; Unit Harpreet Kour: Unit, Shakespeare; Unit, Donne; Unit, Wordsworth, Keats; Unit, Eliot Raj Thakur : Geoffrey Chaucer : The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Anglo- Saxon / Old English Literature, Germanic invasion and literary mapping/ Age of transition: Primary Text: Chaucer, Geoffrey: The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales. Ed. F.N. Robinson. New Delhi. Oxford University
Anglo-Saxon to The Norman Conquest Press. 1976 Generic variants: Epic, Chivalric Romance and Courtly Romance, Lyric, Ballad, Debate and Dream vision, Allegory Socio-political upheavals: The Hundred Years of War, The Black Death, Peasant Religion and Dissent (Catholic Christianity and Lollardism) Secondary Texts: The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Literature. Ed. Larry Scanlon Chaucer. Ed. James Reeves English Poetry. Douglas Bush Tutorials/ Doubts and discussions The Poet Chaucer. Nevile Coghill Continued... Chaucer s use of Chaucer Critical
satire Studies. Brian Stone Medieval society and social strata: nobility, church and trope of Pilgrim in medieval literature/ Chaucer s usage of time and space: cosmic and circular A Companion to Chaucer. Peter Brown Chaucer s approach to charactersketching/ pilgrims; nobility and commoners Pilgrims relations vis a vis church and papacy Tutorial/ doubts and discussions A of Canterbury Tales. Trevor Whittock The Age of Chaucer Ford Boris (Pelican Guide to English Literature) Harpreet Kour Shakespeare s Five Sonnets (18,24,73,94,110)
Shakespeare and evolution of sonnets Primary Text Shakespeare s Sonnets, Atlantic Publishers,1998 Theme and motif in Shakespearean sonnets and explanation of Shakespeare s sonnets and explanation of Shakespeare s sonnets and explanation of Shakespeare s sonnets Secondary Texts: Themes and ariations in Shakespeare s Sonnets, Taylor and Francis ndia 2010 An ntroduction to the Philosophy of Shakespeare s Sonnets, Gyan Books, New Delhi UNT John Donne: The Canonization, Death be not Proud Primary Text: Wilmont, Richard. Four Metaphysical Poets: An Anthology of Poetry by Donne, Herbert,
Marvell and aughan. Cambridge. Cambridge University Press 1985. Donne and Renaissance Humanism Contra- Petrarchanism; Argumentative mode Metaphysical Poetry and Donne s use of paradox, conceit and wit. From Donne to Marvell (The Pelican Guide to English Literature). Ford Borris Donne s religious dilemma (anti- Catholic wave, Jesuit order, Gunpowder plot ) Donne neoplatonic ideal The Seventeenth Century Background; Studies in the Thought of The Age in Relation to Poetry and Religion Basil Willey Elizabethan and Metaphysical magery; Renaissance Poetic and Twentieth Century Critics. Rosemond Tuve
Continued... Donne s philosophy of love and religion (play with profane and sacred, physical and spiritual). The Cambridge Companion to John Donne Achsah Guibbory Textual analyses of The Cannonization. An ntroduction to Metaphysical Poets. Patricia Beer Textual analyses continues, The Cannonization. Textual analyses Death be not Proud Tutorial/ discussion... Unit : Raj Thakur
John Milton : Paradise Lost Book Text s background: genesis and classical allusions Primary Text Prince, F.T. Paradise Lost. Book,. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. 1967 Milton s Republicanism: Classical in nature, reactionary in practice/ Protestant spirit and free will Milton s God. William Empson Milton s poetic disobedience vis a vis Man s disobedience. Generic form; Epic mode and blank verse A Preface to Paradise Lost. C.S Lewis Theological doctrines colouring Milton s spirit: Theodicy, Monism, Arminianism,. Paradise lost : An Authoritative Text, Backgrounds and Sources,
Christology... Criticism. Ed. Scott Elledge. Tutorial/ discussion and doubts... continued... Milton s Epic similes and classical tropes; Proleptic style, Hellenistic and Baroque touch... Milton s Grand Style. Christopher Ricks Tragedy and the Epic. Satan as a tragic hero? Description of legions, arms, wars. Description of Hell s Satan the hero of Paradise Lost? Tutorial/
discussion and doubts... Unit Harpreet Kour Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey, Ode on ntimations of mmortality Wordsworth s theory of poetry Textual analysis of Tintern Abbey Textual analysis of Tintern Abbey Textual analysis of Ode: ntimations and mmortality Textual analysis of Ode: ntimations and mmortality Primary Text Wordsworth Poetical Works. 1994. The Wordsworth Collection: A Catalogue. R.Siemens, 1971 The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth. Ed. H.Reed
X John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale, Hyperion John Keats and Romanticism Keats idea of beauty and sensousness Keats negative capability Primary Text: Barnard, John.Ed. John Keats: The Complete Poems. London. Penguin Classics. 1977. The Cambridge Companion to John Keats. Susan J. Wolfson Romantic Poetry. Kelvin Everest Structural patterns of ode: descriptive, meditative and creative rapture Keats and the Ode. Paul D Sheats Notion of time and temporality, Keats and the Romantic
transience and immortality Science. Allan Richardson Topic to be X Textual analyses : Ode to Nightingale, Keats odes and Contemporary Criticism. James O Rourke Textual analyses: Hyperion Romantic Medicine and John Keats Hermione De almeida Textual analyses continues: Hyperion Critical readings:; Brooks idea of irony and paradox in Keats, Allen Tate s idea of tension in Keats poetry: transient sensation/enduring art, dream vision/reality, joy/melancholy.. Tutorial; discussion, class
test/presentation X Unit- Raj Thakur Robert Browning Porphyrias Lover Browning and late ictorian age Text: Robert Browning Poems. www.poemhunter.com Dramatic monologue Romantic egotism Melodramatic imagery Textual reading and discussion The Cambridge Companion to ictorian Poetry Joseph Bristow Robert Browning: A Literary Life. Sarah Wood Dramatic Monologue: Studies in Literary Themes and Genres. Elizabeth A. Howe
Harpreet Kour TS Eliot The Wasteland X The Wasteland ntroduction, structure and theme Primary Text The Wasteland and Other Poems, T.S Eliot, Faber and Faber.1985 and explanation of the The Burial of the Dead T.S. Eliot: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work By Russell Murphy, 2007 and explanation of The Game of Chess magery and Symbolism in T. S. Eliot's Poetry By Nidhi Tiwari, Atlantic Publishers, 2001. and explanation of The Fire Sermon T.S. Eliot and the Poetics of Evolution: Sub/versions of Classicism, Culture, and Progress by Lois A. Cuddy, 2000. and explanation of Death by Water and What the
Thunder Said X Unit: Raj Thakur WH Auden n Memory of W.B. Yeats Auden and the age of anxiety, Political leanings: Post War Revolutionary Marxist idealism WH Auden: A Biography. George Allen and Urwin. 1981 Unconventional elegiac mode and setting The Cambridge Companion to English Poets Edward Mendelson. Cambridge.:Cambridge University Press 2011 Archetypal tropes: setting, time and temporality The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry. Ed. Neil Cocoran. Critique of the efficacy of Poetry Poetry and Politics. C.M. Bowra Tutorial and further discussions... Lost Bearings in English Poetry. D Holbook Topic to be W.B. Yeats : A
Prayer for My Daughter X Yeats and Celtic renaissance The Political Aesthetic of Yeats, Eliot, and Pound. Michael North Yeats transition from romantic to modern WB Yeats: The Poet as Critic. Enoch Brater. www.jstor.org/stable/383104 Apocalyptic vision W. B. Yeats: A ision Neil Mann Matthew Gibson Claire. Nally Yeats symbolism/ classical allusions Tutorial/Discussion/ doubts Modern reland R.F. Foster Seamus Heaney X Digging Heaney and Postmodernism Seamus Heaney, Poet, Critic and Translator:Jason David Hall Nad Crowder. Palgrave Macmillan. 2007 rish transition from rural to modern industrial nation Seamus Heaney Helen ender. USA. Harvar University
Romantic evocation, nature and childhood Digging - a reconciliatory expression; Personal to political Tutorial/ discussion and eco-critical approach Press,.2000 Essays on Twentieth Century Poetry. G.S Frazer The Cambridge Companion to Seamus Heaney. Bernard O Donogue.