FREE IGNOU BRITISH POETRY NOTES ENGLISH HINDI –

Block- 1 Orientation For the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer

Unit-1 From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems
Unit-2 A Prelude to the Study of Poetry
Unit-3 The Age of Chaucer
Unit-4 Chaucer’s Poetry: A General survey
Unit-5 The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Unit-6 A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’ I
Unit-7 A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’ II

Block- 2 Undertaking A Study of Spenser

Unit-8 The Renaissance
Unit-9 Edmund Spenser
Unit-10 Spenser’s Poetry- I
Unit-11 Spenser’s Poetry- II

Block- 3 The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert

Unit-12 Poetry and Society in the seventeenth Century (Pre- Restoration)
Unit-13 John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and textual study of four Love Poems
Unit-14 John Donne: Further explorations into Poems of Love and Faith
Unit-15 George Herbert: A Study of Poems
Unit-16 Andrew Marvell: A Study of his Poems

Block- 4 Studying Milton

Unit-17 The Late Renaissance
Unit-18 Milton: The Life
Unit-19 A Survey of Milton’s lesser Poems and Prose
Unit-20 ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ and ’Lycidas’
Unit-21 ‘L’Allegro’, ‘II Penseroso’ and the Sonnets

Block- 5 The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden and Pope

Unit-22 The Age of Dryden
Unit-23 John Dryden
Unit-24 Mac Flecknoe
Unit-25 Pope: A Background to An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Unit-26 Pope: The Study of An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Block- 6 The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge

Unit-27 Introduction to Romantic Poetry
Unit-28 William Blake
Unit-29 Wordsworth’s The Prelude Book I: A Critical Analysis
Unit-30 Coleridge: Kubla Khan & ‘Dejection’: An Ode’

Block- 7 The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats

Block- 8 The Victorian Poets: Browning, D.G. and Christina Rossetti & Oscar Wilde

Block- 9 The Modernist Poets

Block-10 Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin & Sylvia Plath