'English Poetry: The Augustan to the Victorian' is a course offered in Second Semester of B. A. (Bachelor of Arts) English Language and Literature program at the School of Arts and Sciences, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, Mysuru campus.
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 1
Pope “An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot” [Detailed].
“The Quiet Life” [Non-Detailed].
Swift “Critics” [Non-Detailed].
Unit 2
William Collins “To Evening” [Detailed].
lake “Tyger” [Detailed].
“Lamb” [Detailed].
Unit 3
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 4
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 5
Alfred Tennyson:"Ulysses" [Detailed].
"Thyrsis" [Non-Detailed].
Robert Browning:"My Last Duchess" [Detailed].
atthew Arnold:"Dover Beach" [Detailed].
- Board of Editors. Poetry Down the Ages. Hyderabad:Orient Black Swan, 2010.
- Palgrave,F.T. The Golden Treasury. New Delhi:Rupa Classics, 2006.
- Harrison,GB. Penguin Book of English Poetry.UK: Penguin Books.
- Klarer Mario. An Introduction to Literary Studies. Routledge, 2009.
- Board of Editors. DAV College. Light and Delight, Part II,Macmillan.2000.
- Jain, Jasbir. Strings of Gold Part-3: An Anthology of Poems, Macmillan.
- Students are recommended to read poems from popular anthologies.
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