Course Outline
Augustan Age – characteristics – transitional poets. Romantic revival – characteristics – worship of nature – older romantics. Younger romantics – characteristics – sensualism – humanitarian pantheism. Victorian poetry – conflict between science and religion – rationalism – dramatic monologue – major poets.
Unit I:
Pope “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot”[Detailed].
“The Quiet Life”[Non-Detailed].
Swift “Critics” [Non-Detailed].
Unit II:
William Collins “To Evening”[Detailed]
Blake “Tyger”[Detailed]
“Lamb”[Detailed]
Unit III:
Wordsworth: “Lines Written a Few Miles AboveTintern Abbey”[Detailed]
“The World is Too Much With Us”[Non-Detailed]
S.T:Coleridge: “The Rime of Ancient Mariner”[Detailed]
Unit IV:
P.B. Shelley: “Ode to the West Wind”[Detailed]
“Ozymandias” [Non-Detailed]
John Keats:”La Belle Dame Sans Merci”[Non-Detailed]
“Ode to Nightingale”[Detailed]
Unit V:
Alfred Tennyson:”Ulysses”[Detailed]
“Thyrsis”[Non-Detailed]
Robert Browning:”My Last Duchess”[Detailed]
Matthew Arnold:”Dover Beach”[Detailed]