New IGNOU MEG-01 Help Book British Poetry in English – MA English Latest Edition Guide and Study Material.

Block 1 – Orientation for the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer
From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems
A Prelude to the Study of Poetry
The Age of Chaucer
Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey
The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-I
A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-II

Block 2 – Undertaking A Study of Spenser
The Renaissance
Edmund Spenser
Spenser’s Poetry- I
Spenser’s Poetry- II

Block 3 – The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert
Poetry and Society in the Seventeenth Century (Pre-Restoration)
John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of four Love Poems
John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith
George Herbert: A Study of Poems
Andrew Marvell: A Study of his Poems

Block 4 – Studying Milton
The Late Renaissance
Milton: The Life
A Survey of Milton’s lesser Poems and Prose
‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ and ’Lycidas’
‘L’Allegro’, ‘II Penseroso’ and the Sonnets

Block 5 – The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden and Pope
The Age of Dryden
John Dryden
Mac Flecknoe
Pope: A Background to an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Pope: The Study of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Block 6 – The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge
Introduction to Romantic Poetry
William Blake
Wordsworth’s The Prelude Book I: A Critical Analysis
Coleridge: Kubla Khan & ‘Dejection’: An Ode’

Block 7 – The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats
The Poet of Volcanic Hope: P.B. Shelley
A Study of the Triumph of Life
Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-I
Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-II
The Romantic Age: A Review

Block 8 – The Victorian Poets: Browning, D.G. and Christina Rossetti & Oscar Wilde
The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
Robert Browning: Life and Aspirations
Robert Browning: Two Early Poems
Two Poems from Men and Women (1855)
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Goal

Block 9 – The Modernist Poets
Modern British Poetry: An introduction
W.B. Yeats: Background, System and Poetic Career Until
The Eater Poetry of W.B. Yeats
T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-I
T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-II
T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-III

Block 10 – Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin & Sylvia Plath
Dylan Thomas
Philip Larkin and Movement Poetry
Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
So! Now! What is Poetry? Once again: A Symposium
Essays and Evaluations