MEG - 1 : BRITISH POETRY - Syllabus

 

Block 1

 Chaucer

          General prologue to Canterbury tales

          The Nun’s Priest’s Tale

Block 2

Edmund Spenser

          Age of renaissance features

          The Epithalamion

          The Prothalamion

Block 3

John Donne

A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning

          The Canonisation

Batter My Heart

The Flea

The Extasie

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress

The Garden

George Herbert

          The Collar

The Pulley

Redemption

Affliction

         

Block 4

John Milton

          Lycidas

          On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity

L’Allegro and Il Penseroso

 

Block 5

John Dryden

          Mac Flecknoe

Alexander Pope

          An Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot

Features of Neoclassical Poetry

 

Block 6 & 7

Romanticism Features

William Blake

          The Chimney sweeper

          The Sick Rose

          London

          The Lamb

The Tyger

Wordsworth

          The Prelude

S.T Coleridge

          Kublah Khan

          Dejection an ode

P.B Shelley

          The Triumph of Life

John Keats

          Hyperion

 

Block 8

Victorian Poetry

Robert Browning

Sordello in Mantua

Porphyria’s Lover

Childe Roland to The Dark Tower Came

Fra Lippo Lippi

Oscar Wilde

          The Ballad of Reading Gaol

D.G Rosetti and Christina Rosetti

The Blessed Damozel

The Goblin Market

 

Block 9

W.B Yeats

          Adam’s Curse

          No Second Troy

          Easter 1916

          Lapis Lazuli

Saliling To Byantium

T.S Eliot

          The Waste Land

 

Block 10

British Poetry from Modern to Postmodern

Dylan Thomas

          Fern Hill

          And Death Shall Have No Dominion

          Poem in October

Philip Larkin

          Church going

          I remember I remember

          Toads

          The Whitsun Weddings

Sylvia Plath

          The Colossus

          Daddy

          Lady Lazurus

   Ariel