UNIT 1
William Wordsworth
Salient features of Romantic movement
Difference from Classical literary tradition
Detailed reading and critical discussion of the following poems:
Ode on Intimation to Immortality
Tintern Abbey
Resolution and Independence
The Solitary Reaper
The World is too Much with Us
UNIT 2
Wordsworth’s contribution as a poet
His philosophy of Nature as exemplified in his poems
UNIT 3
S. T. Coleridge as a poet
Detailed reading with critical analysis of the following poems:
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Christabel
Kubla Khan
UNIT 4
His treatment of the supernatural showing difference from earlier traditions
UNIT 5
P.B. Shelley
Detailed reading with critical analysis of the following poems:
Adonais
Ode to the West Wind
UNIT 6
Shelley and his critics
UNIT 7
John Keats as a poet
Keats’ Negative capability
Keats’ escapism
UNIT 8
John Keats as a poet
Detailed reading with critical analysis of the following poems:
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Ode on Melancholy
Ode to Autumn