Major · English · Semester 1 · FY BA · 2 credits · 50 marks · 30 hours
Module 1: Elements of Poetry
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1
Form and composition of poetry
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2
Metre and rhyme
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3
Figures of Speech
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4
Types of poetic stanza
Module 2: Types of Poetry
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1
Sonnet
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2
Ballad
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3
Ode
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4
Elegy
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5
Dramatic Monologue
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6
Epical poetry
Text Books
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Brooks, Cleanth (1947). The Well Wrought Urn: Studies in the Structure of Poetry. Harcourt Brace & Company.
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Corn, Alfred (1997). The Poem's Heartbeat: A Manual of Prosody. Storyline Press.
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Finch, Annie (2011). A Poet's Ear: A Handbook of Meter and Form. University of Michigan Press.
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Fry, Stephen (2007). The Ode Less Travelled: Unlocking the Poet Within. Arrow Books.
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Fussell, Paul (1965). Poetic Meter and Poetic Form. Random House.
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Gosse, Edmund William (1911). "Verse" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.)
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Hollander, John (1981). Rhyme's Reason. Yale University Press.
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O’Dowd-Burkard, Deborah. Poetry Made Easy. R.I.C. Publications, 2000.
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Padgett, Ron. The Teachers & Writers Handbook of Poetic Forms. 2000.
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Pinsky, Robert (1998). The Sounds of Poetry. Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
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Pound, Ezra (1951). ABC of Reading. Faber.
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Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature, Mumbai: MacMillan
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Publishers India Limited, 2010.Adams, Stephen J. (1997). Poetic designs: an introduction to meters, verse forms and figures of speech. Broadview.
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Rees, R.J., English Literature: An Introduction to Foreign Readers, New Delhi: Anubhav
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Publishers, 1972. Meyer Howard Abrams, and Geoffrey Galt Harpham. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Boston (Mass.), Wadsworth Cengage Learning, Cop, 2015.
