Day 7 – British Poetry: From Old English Period to Romantic Age
Sir Gawain & The Green Knight
John Donne- A Valediction: Forbidden Mourning
John Donne- Sunne Rising
John Donne- The Canonization
Andrew Marvell- To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell- The Coronet
John Milton- Paradise Lost
John Milton- Lycidas
John Milton- On His Blindness
Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope- An Essay on Criticism
Alexander Pope- An Essay on Man
Thomas Gray- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
William Blake- London
William Blake- A Poison Tree
William Blake- The Garden of Love
William Wordsworth- Tintern Abbey
Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Rime of Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge- Christabel
John Keats- Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats- Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats- Ode on Melancholy
John Keats- Ode to Autumn
P B Shelley- To a Skylark
P B Shelley- Ode to the West Wind
Day 8 – British Poetry: Victorian Age to Post Modern Age
Lord Alfred Tennyson- Ulysses
Lord Alfred Tennyson- Break, break, break
Robert Browning- My Last Duchess
Robert Browning- Porphyria’s Lover
Robert Browning- Fra Lippo Lippi
Robert Browning- Andrea del Sarto
Christina Rossetti- Goblin Market
G M Hopkins- Pied Beauty
Matthew Arnold- Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold- Scholar Gypsy
W B Yeats- Sailing to Byzantium
W H Auden- Musée des Beaux Arts
W H Auden- In Memory of W.B. Yeats
T S Eliot- The Wasteland
T S Eliot- Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
Wilfred Owen- Strange Meeting
Seamus Heaney- Digging
Ted Hughes- Hawk Roosting
Ted Hughes- Thistles
Ted Hughes- Thought Fox
Philip Larkin- Aubade
Philip Larkin- Toads
Day 9 – American Poetry
Walt Whitman- When Lilacs last in the dooryard bloomed
Walt Whitman- Passage to India
Emily Dickinson- Hope’ is the thing with feathers
Robert Frost- After Apple-Picking
Robert Frost- The Road Not taken
Robert Frost- Birches
Robert Frost- Stopping by Woods on a snowy evening
Sylvia Plath- Lady Lazarus
Allen Ginsberg- Howl
Allen Ginsberg- A Supermarket in California
Wallace Stevens- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens- Anecdote of the Jar
Day 10 – Post Colonial Poetry
Langston Hughes- Harlem
Langston Hughes- I, Too, Sing America
Langston Hughes- The Weary Blues
A.D Hope- Australia
Derek Walcott- Omeros
Derek Walcott- Far Cry from Africa
Pablo Neruda- The Way Spain Was
Day 11 – Indian Poetry
Toru Dutt- Our Casuarina Tree
Sarojini Naidu- Palanquin Bearers
Kamala Das- Introduction
Kamala Das- My Grandmother’s House
Nissim Ezekiel- Night of the Scorpion
Nissim Ezekiel- Enterprise
A.K. Ramanujan- Obituary
A.K. Ramanujan- Love Poem for a Wife I