New IGNOU BEGE-106 Help Book Understanding Poetry in English – BA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Early Modern English Poets
Why Read A Poem? And How to Study Understanding Poetry?
On Metre, Scansion and Prosody
William Shakespeare’s Sonnets
John Milton
John Donne
Andrew Marvell

Block 2 – The Long Eighteenth Century
John Dryden: Mac Flecknoe
Alexander Pope: An Essay on Man
Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes
Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Appendix: Texts of Poems

Block 3 – The Romantic Poets
William Wordsworth
S. T. Coleridge: ‘Kubla Khan’
Lord Byron
P. B. Shelley
John Keats

Block 4 – The Great Victorian Poets
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Robert Browning
Matthew Arnold
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Thomas Hardy and D. H. Lawrence

Block 5 – The High Modernist, Postmodernist and Recent Poets
William Butler Yeats
T. S. Eliot
Philip Larkin
Ted Hughes
Seamus Heaney

Block 6 – The American Poets-I
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walt Whitman
Edgar Allan Poe
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Emily Dickinson

Block 7 – The American Poets-II
Robert Frost
William Carlos Williams
Wallace Stevens
Langston Hughes
Allen Ginsberg

Block 8 – Indian English Poets
Rabindranath Tagore and Sarojini Naidu
Nissim Ezekiel and Kamala Das
A. K. Ramanujan and Jayant Mahapatra
Arun Kolatkar and Agha Shahid Ali
Dilip Chitre and Keki N. Daruwalla