Major · English · Semester 1 · FY BA · 4 credits · 100 marks · 60 hours
Module 1: Sonnets and Odes
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William Shakespeare, Sonnet 118, “Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day?”
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning: “Sonnet 43” from Sonnets from the Portuguese
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P. B. Shelley, “Ode to Skylark”
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Dilip Chitre, “Ode to Bombay”
Module 2: Elegy and Ballad
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Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain!”
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Katherine Philips: “Epitaph”
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Thomas Campbell, “Lord Ullin’s Daughter”
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Bob Dylan: “Blowin’ in the Wind” (non-traditional folk ballad)
Module 3: Dramatic Monologue and Epic
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Robert Browning, “The Last Ride”
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Carol Ann Duffy, “Medusa”
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Judith Wright. “Eve to her Daughters”
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John Milton, “Paradise Lost”, (The Invocation-line no. 1 to 26)
Module 4: Other Forms
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Edgar Allan Poe, Annabel Lee (Lyric)
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William Carlos Williams, “The Red Wheelbarrow” (Imagist Poem)
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Wole Soyinka, “Telephone Conversation “(Unconventional)
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Lewis Carroll, “Jabberwocky” (Non-Sense Poem)
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Susheel Kumar Sharma, “Spineless - II” (from The Door is Half Open)
Reference Books
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Anthology of Indian English Poetry. Ed. S.K. Singh. Orient Blackswan, 1989.
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No More Masks! An Anthology of Poems by Women. Ed. Florence Howe. 1973.
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She is Fierce: Brave, Bold and Beautiful Poems by Women. Ed. Ana Sampson. Pan MacMillan, 2020.
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The Norton Anthology of Poetry. Sixth Edition. Eds. Margaret Ferguson, Tim Kendall, Mary Jo Salter. https://wwnorton.com/books/The-Norton-Anthology-of-Poetry
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The Penguin Book of Indian Poets. Ed. Jeet Thayil. Hamish Hamilton, 2022.
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Six Major Poets: A Critical Study by Dr. Vikas Sharma, Atlantic Publishers & Distributors Pvt. Ltd., 2023.
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/
