IGNOU MEG Syllabus
MEG 01: BRITISH POETRY
Block
I: Orientations for the Study of Poetry & the Medieval Poet Chaucer
Unit 1: From the
Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems (1370 – 80)
Unit 2: A Prelude
to the Study of Poetry (Rhetoric & Prosody), Iambic, Trochaic, Anapest,
Dactylic, Amphibrachic, Strong stress metres, quantitative metres, syllabis
metres, rhythm, rhyme schemes, etc
Unit 3: The Ageof Chaucer
Unit 4: Chaucer’s
Poetry: A General Survey : Roman de la Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House
of Fame, Parliament of Fowls, Prologue to the Legend of Good Women, The Nun’s
Priest’s Tale, Troilus and Criseyde, The Canterbury Tales,
Unit 5: The
General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
Unit 6: ‘A Study
of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ I
Unit 7: ‘A Study
of the Nonne Preestes Tale’ II
Block
2: Renaissance Poets: Undertaking a Study of Spenser
Unit 8: The
Renaissance Age
Unit 9: Edmund
Spenser
Unit 10: Spenser’s
Poetry: The Amoretti Sonnets, Sonnet 34, Sonnet 67, Sonnet 77
Unit 11: Spenser’s Poetry
– II: The Epithalamion, The Prothalamion,
Block
3: The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert & Marvell
Unit 12: British
Poetry in the 17th Century
Unit 13: John
Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual
Study of four Love Poems; The Flea, Twicknam Garden, The Good Morrow, The
Extasie
Unit 14: John Donne:
Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith: The Canonization, A
Valediction: Forbidding Mourning, A Nocturnal Upon S Lucies Day, Batter My
Heart, Three Person’d God, Hymn To God The Father
Unit 15: George
Herbert: A Study of His Poems: Affliction, The Collar, Easter Wings, Love (3),
The Pulley, Redemption, The Windows, Aaron
Unit 16: Andrew
Marvell: A Study of His Poems: To His Coy Mistress, The Garden, An Horation Ode
Upon Cromwell’s Return From Ireland
Block
4: Renaissance Poets: Studying Milton
Unit 17: The Late
Renaissance Unit 18: Milton: The Life
Unit 19: A Survey
of Milton’s Lesser Poems & Prose: On the Death of An Infant, At A Vacation
Exercise
Unit 20: On The
Morning of Christ’s Nativity & Lycidas
Unit 21:
L’Allegro, Il Penseroso &the Sonnets 19 & 23
Block
5: The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden & Pope
Unit 22: The Age
of Dryden Unit 23: John Dryden
Unit 24: Mac
Flecknoe, (Alexander’s Feast Or The Power of Music An Ode In Honour of St
Cecilia’s Day)
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: Early Romantic Poets
Unit 28: William
Blake: Songs of Innocence & Songs of Experience, The Lamb, The Chimney
Sweeper, The Divine Image, The Sick Rose, London, The Tyger,
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
Unit 31: The
Volcanic Voice of Hope: P B Shelley
Unit 32: A Study
of The Triumph of Life Unit 38: Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment, I
Unit 34: Keats:
Hyperion: A Fragment, II
Unit 35: The
Romantic Age: A Review
Block
8: The Victorian Poets
Unit 36: The
Victorian Age: Selected Studies
Unit 37: Robert
Browning: Life & Aspirations: Sordello in Mantua
Unit 38: Robert
Browning: Two Early Poems: Porphyria’s Lover, The Bishop Orders His Tomb at St
Praxed’s Church
Unit 39: Two
Poems from Men and Women: Childe Roland To The Dark Tower Came, Fra Lippo Lippi
Unit 40: The Pre-
Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti & Christina Georgina
Rossetti: My Sister’s Sleep, The Blessed Damozel; Goblin Market
Unit 41: Oscar
Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Block
9: The Modernist Poets
Unit 42: Modern
British Poetry: An Introduction
Unit 43: W B
Yeats: Background, System, and Poetic Career until 1910: Adam’s Curse, No
Second Troy
Unit 44: The
Later Poetry of W B Yeats: Easter 1916, Sailing To Byzantium, Lapis Lazuli
Unit 45: T S
Eliot: The Waste Land (I)
Unit 46: T S
Eliot: The Waste Land (II)
Unit 47: T S
Eliot: The Waste Land (III)
Block
10: The Modernist & Post Modernist Poets
Unit 48: Dylan Thomas: And Death Shall Have No
Dominion, Poem in October, Fern Hill, A Refusal to Mourn the Death by Fire, Of
Child in London
Unit 49: Philip Larkin: I Remember, I Remember, Toads, Toads
Revisited, Mr Bleaney, Church Going, The Whitsun Weddings, At Grass Unit 50:
Sylvia Plath & Confessional Poetry: The Colossus, Daddy, Lasy Lazrun,
Purdah, Ariel, Pursuit, The Applicant, Fever 103°
Unit 51: So! Now! What is Poetry? Once Again:
A Symposium
Unit 52: Essays & Evaluations
MEG 02: BRITISH DRAMA
Block
I: Marlowe: Doctor Faustus
Block
II: Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Block
III: Shakespeare: Hamlet
Block
IV: Ben Jonson: The Alchemist
Block
V: John Millington Synge: The Playboy of the Western World
Block
VI: George Bernard Shaw: Pygmalion
Block
VII: T S Eliot: Murder in the Cathedral
Block
VIII: John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
Block
IX: Samuel Beckett: Waiting for Godot
MEG 03: BRITISH NOVEL
Block
I: Henry Fieldings: The History of Tom Jones A Foundling (1749)
Block
II: Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813)
Block
III: Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights (1847)
Block
IV: Charles Dickens: Great Expectations (1860 -1861, 1861, 1862)
Block
V: George Eliot: Middlemarch (1871)
Block
VI: Josef Conrad: Heart of Darkness (1898 -1899)
Block
VII: James Joyce: A Portrait of the Artist As A Young Man (1916)
Block
VIII: Edward Morgan Forster: A Passage to India (1912-14)
MEG 04: ASPECTS OF LANGUAGE
Block
I: What is Language?
Block
II: A History of the English Language
Block
III: Phonetics & Phonology I
Block
IV: Phonetics & Phonology II
Block
V: English Syntax Block VI: Language In Use - I
Block
VII: Language In Use - II
Block
VIII: The Spread of English
Block
IX: Stylistics
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