Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Background to Poetry in English Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
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Syllabus for Background to Poetry in English
Practise with the Semester 1 past papers. Papers in the subject folders were set on this syllabus. The year folders hold older papers, so check each topic against this one.
Module 1: Elements of Poetry
- 1 Form and composition of poetry
- 2 Metre and rhyme
- 3 Figures of Speech
- 4 Types of poetic stanza
Module 2: Types of Poetry
- 1 Sonnet
- 2 Ballad
- 3 Ode
- 4 Elegy
- 5 Dramatic Monologue
- 6 Epical poetry
Text Books
- Brooks, Cleanth (1947). The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. Harcourt Brace & Company.
- Corn, Alfred (1997). The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Storyline Press.
- Finch, Annie (2011). A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form. University of Michigan Press.
- Fry, Stephen (2007). The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. Arrow Books.
- Fussell, Paul (1965). Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Random House.
- Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Verse" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.)
- Hollander, John (1981). Rhyme's Reason. Yale University Press.
- O’Dowd-Burkard, Deborah. Poetry Made Easy. R.I.C. Publications, 2000.
- Padgett, Ron. The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. 2000.
- Pinsky, Robert (1998). The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
- Pound, Ezra (1951). ABC of Reading. Faber.
- Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature, Mumbai: MacMillan
- Publishers India Limited, 2010.Adams, Stephen J. (1997). Poetic designs: an introduction to meters, verse forms and figures of speech. Broadview.
- Rees, R.J., English Literature: An Introduction to Foreign Readers, New Delhi: Anubhav
- Publishers, 1972. Meyer Howard Abrams, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston (Mass.), Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Cop, 2015.