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British and Indian poetry

Poetry from Chaucer to Milton

UNIT 1:

Geoffrey Chaucer: The Wife of Bath, The Pardoner                         
                              (from The Prologue to The Canterbury Tales)
John Donne:          Death Be Not Proud
John Milton:          On His Blindness

Poetry in Neoclassical and Romantic Age

UNIT 2:

  • Alexander Pope:         The Rape of the Lock - Canto III
  • William Wordsworth : Solitary Reaper, Daffodils
  • John Keats :                Ode to Autumn

Poetry in the Victorian Age

UNIT 3:


  • Alfred Lord Tennyson  - Break, Break, Break
  • Mathew Arnold           -  Dover Beach

Indian Poetry

UNIT 4:

  •  Toru Dutt: Our Casuarina Tree, Sita
  •  Sarojini Naidu: Indian Weavers
  •  Rabindranath Tagore: Gitanjali Songs no. 1 & 2

Oedipus Rex

R K Narayan

UNIT 1.1 Where the Mind is Without Fear

UNIT 1.2 National Education - M.K. Gandhi

UNIT 1.3 The Axe -R.K. Narayan

This course serves as an introduction to R. k.  Narayan and features one of his short stories The Axe

UNIT 1.4 The Wonder that was India

UNIT 1.5 Preface to the Mahabharat

UNIT 1.1 Daffodils William Wordsworth

Here is the complete text of the poem Daffodils and an introduction to the poet William Wordsworth

The course also contains various resources and assessments

UNIT 1.2 The Bangle Sellers Sarojini Naidu

This course is an introduction to the Nightingale of India Sarojini Naidu and one of her poems The Bangle Sellers

UNIT 1.3 Patriotism beyond Politics and Religion A. P. J. Abdul Kalam


UNIT 1.4 A Letter to God

UNIT 1.5 God Sees The Truth But Waits