Unit - 2 The Major Authors of the Age and their important works:
1. Alexander Pope : An Essay on Man, An Essay on Criticism
2. Edward Young : Night Thoughts
3. Dr. Johnson : The Vanity of Human Wishes, The Lives of the Poets
4. Oliver Goldsmith : The Deserted Village, She Stoops to Conquer,
The Vicar of Wakefield
5. Robert Blair : The Grave
6. Daniel Defoe : Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
7. Jonathan Swift : The Battle of Books, A Tale of a Tub, Gulliver's Travels
8. Joseph Addison : The Spectator, The Campaign
9. Richard Steele : The Guardian, The Conscious Lover
10. Edward Gibbon : Decline and Fall of Roman Empire
11. Edmund Burke : Reflections on French Revolution
12. Samuel Richardson : Clarissa, The History of a Sir Charles Grandison,
13. Henry Fielding : Joseph Andrews, Amelia
14. Laurence Sterne : Tristam Shandy, Gentleman
15. Tobias Smollet : Roderick Random, Peregrine Pickle
16. Horace Walpole : Castle of Otranto
17. Ann Radcliffe : Romance of the Forest, The Italian
18. James Thomson : Seasons, The Castle of Indolence
19. William Blake : Songs of Innocence and Experience, Adam Naming the Beast
20. George Crabbe : The Village, Tales in Verse
21. William Collins : Oriental Eclogues, Ode to Evening, Ode to Simplicity
22. Thomas Grey : Hymn to Adversity, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard,
23. William Cowper : The Task
24. Thomas Otway : Venice Preserved, Don Carlos
25. James Thomson : The Seasons
26. Richard Brinsley : The Rival, The School for Scandal
Sheridan
27. Colley Cibber : Love's Last Shift, The Careless Husband
28. Hugh Kelley : False Delicacy, The School for Wives
29. Richard Cumberland : The Fashionable Lover, The Wheel of Fortune
30. James Macpherson : Works of Ossian
31. William Cowper : God Moves on a Mysterious Way, Oh! For a Closer Walk with God
32. Robert Burns : To a Mouse, Address to a Haggis
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Content
Unit –1 Topics for Self -Study / Assignments / Library Work
▪ Salient features of the Romantic Age
▪ The Impact of the French Revolution
▪ Nature Worshipping and the Romantics
▪ The growth of novel during the Romantic Age
▪ The growth of prose during the Romantic Age
▪ Characteristics of the Victorian Period
▪ Victorian Poetry
▪ Victorian Novel
▪ Victorian Prose
▪ The Oxford movement
Unit - 2 The Major Authors of the Age and their important works:
1. The Prelude, The Daffodils.
William Wordsworth :
2. Walter Scott : Ivanhoe, The Heart of Midlothian, Old Mortality,
The Antiquity
3. Robert Southey : Joan of Arc, The Holly Tree, A Vision of Judgment
4. S. T. Coleridge : Christabel, Kubla Khan, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
5. Lord Byron : Child Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan, Hours of Idleness
6. P.B. Shelley The Revolt of Islam, Prometheus Unbound, Ode
: to the West Wind
7. John Keats : Endymion, Isabella, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode to Autumn
8. Jane Austen : Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, Mansfield Park
9. Charles Lamb : Essays of Elia, Tales from Shakespeare, The Old Familiar Faces
10. William Hazlitt : The English Poets, The Round Table
11. Leigh Hunt : Story of Rimini, Autobiography
12. Thomas Hood : The Dream of Eugene Aram, The Bridge of Sighs, The
Haunted House
13. Maria Edgeworth : The Absentee, Ormond
14. Alfred Tennyson : In Memoriam, The Lotus Eaters.
15. Robert Browning : Men and Women, Fra Lippo Lippi
16. Matthew Arnold : Dover Beach, Culture and Anarchy
17. Elizabeth Barrett : Sonnets from the Portuguese, Prometheus Bound.
Browning
18. D.G.Rossetti : The House of Life, Ballads and Sonnets.
19. Thomas Carlyle : The French Revolution, Past and present
20. John Ruskin : The Modern Painters, Unto the Last
21. Charles Dickens : Pickwick Papers, Great Expectations
22. W.M.Thackeray : Vanity Fair, The Book of Snobs
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23. George Meredith : The Egotist, Emilia in England.
24. Charlotte Bronte : Jane Eyre, The Professor
25. Emily Bronte : Wuthering Heights
26. George Eliot : Adam Bede, The Mill on the Floss
(Mary Ann Evans)
27. Benjamin Disraeli : Vivian Gray, Sybil
28. R.L.Stevenson : Treasure Island, New Arabian Nights
29. Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd, The Mayor of Casterbridge
30. Christina Georgina : The Goblin Market, The Prince’s Market
Rossetti
31. William Morris : The Earthly Paradise, News from Nowhere
32. A.C Swinburne : Atlanta in Calydon, Mary Stuart
33. H.W Longfellow : Pilgrimage Beyond the sea, Voices of the Night
34. Edward Fitzgerald : Euphranor: A Dialogue on Youth, Translation of Rubaiyat
35. Sydney Dobell : Festus
36. Anne Bronte : Agnes Gray, The Tenant of Wild Fell Hall
37. Antony Trollope : The Warden,The Last Chronicle of Barset
38. Mrs. Elizabeth : Sylvia’s Lover, Wives and Daughter
Gaskell
39. Charles Kingsley : Westward Ho, Alton Locke
40. Wilkie Collins : The Dead Secret, No Name
Unit -3 Texts
Text 1 : Selections of Literature From Romantic to Victorian Ages (OB)
Poetry : 1. The Solitary Reaper : William Wordsworth
2. I Would I Were a Careless Child : Lord Byron
3. Ode to the West Wind : P B Shelley
4. Ode on a Grecian Urn : John Keats
5. Ulysses: Alfred Lord Tennyson
6. The Lost Leader : Robert Browning
7. Dover Beach : Mathew Arnold
8. Up-Hill : Christiana Rossetti
Text 2 : Thomas Hardy : Far from the Madding Crowd (OBAT.)
Text 3 : Selections of Literature From Romantic to Victorian Ages (OB)
Prose : 1.Dream Children -A Reverie :Charles Lamb
2.On the Feeling of Immortality in Youth : William Hazlitt
3. El Dorado : Robert Louis Stevenson
4. An Apology for Idlers : Robert Louis Stevenson
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Unit - 2 The Major Authors of the Age and their important works:
1 Valmiki Ramayana
2 Maharshi Vedvyasa Mahabharata
3 Bharat Muni Natyashastra
4 Bhasa Karnabharan,Urubhangam
5 Kalidas Abhigyanashakuntalam, Raghuvansham,
Kumarsambhavam,Meghadutam
6 Vishnu Sharma Panchatantra
7 Narayan Sharma Hitopadesh
8 Dandi Dashakumaracharita
9 Shudraka Mricchakatik
10 Ashvaghosha Sharikaputraprakaran
11 Jaydeva Gitagovinda
12. Toru Dutt The Young Spanish Maiden
13. Rabindranath Gitanjali, The Gardener, My Reminiscences
Tagore
14. Sri Aurobindo The Life Divine, Savitri
15. Sarojini Naidu The Bird of Time, The Golden Threshold
16. A.k.Ramanujan The Striders, Hymns for the Drowning
17. Nissim Ezekiel Hymns in Darkness, Marriage – Poem, Nalini
18. Kamala Das The Guest, Summer in Calcutta, My Story
19. Jayant Mahapatra Relationship, Waiting
20. ArunKolatkar: Jejuri
21. M.K .Gandhi Hind Swaraj
22. R.k.Narayan Swami and Friends, The World of Nagaraj
23. Mulk Raj Anand Untouchable, Coolie
24. Raja Rao The Serpent and the Rope, Kanthapura
25. Bhabani So Many Hungers, He Who Rides a Tiger
Bhattacharya
26. Anita Desai Clear light of the Day, Fire on the Mountain
27. Shashi Deshpande That Long Silence, Small Remedies
28. Kamala Markandaya Nectar in the Sieve, A Handful of Rice
29. Salman Rushdie Midnight's children, The Satanic Verses
30. Vikram Sheth The Golden Gate, A Suitable Boy
31. Ruskin Bond The Last Tiger
32. Amitav Gosh The Shadow Lines, The Glass Palace
33. ChamanNahal Azadi
34. Asif Currimbhoy Goa, The Dumb Dancer
35. Girish Karnad Hayavadana, Nagamandala
36. Mahesh Dattani Final Solutions, Tara
37. Manjula Harvest, Lights out
Padmanabhan
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