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This document provides an overview of various poems and poets from different time periods and locations around the world. It includes summaries of works by renowned English poets like Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Wordsworth. It also mentions poems from Indian poets such as Tagore, Daruwalla, and Ramanujan as well as African, Australian, American, and other poets. The document covers a wide range of poetry from the 14th century to the modern era.

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Poetry

This document provides an overview of various poems and poets from different time periods and locations around the world. It includes summaries of works by renowned English poets like Shakespeare, Donne, Milton, and Wordsworth. It also mentions poems from Indian poets such as Tagore, Daruwalla, and Ramanujan as well as African, Australian, American, and other poets. The document covers a wide range of poetry from the 14th century to the modern era.

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POETRY

William Shakespeare: (a) Sonnet 29: “When in disgrace with fortune


and men’s eyes” (b)Sonnet 138 “When my love swears that she is
made of truth”
John Donne: “Canonization”
John Milton: Paradise Lost ( Satan’s Speech )
John Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel, Lines 150-197. (False
Achitophel).
Alexander Pope: “ Essay on Man” (Lines 1-18)
William Blake: The Nurse’s Song
William Wordsworth: (a) “Tintern Abbey”, (b) “The World is too
much with us”
Percy B. Shelley: (a) “Ode to the West Wind” (b) “ A Lament”
John Keats: (a) “Ode to a Nightingale”, (b) “ La Belle dame sans
merci”
Sarojini Naidu: The Flute Player of Brindaban
Toru Dutt:” Baughmaree”
Rabindra Nath Tagore: From Gitanjali : (a) 11th, Leave the Chanting,
(b) 12th Fruit Gathering.
Nissim Ezikiel: “Background”, “Casually”
Robert Frost: “ Stopping by the Woods”
Walt Whitman: “O Captain, My Captain”
Alfred Lord Tennyson: (a) “Break, Break, Break” ; (b) “ Ulysses”
Robert Browning: (a) “ My Last Duchess” ; (b) “Prospice”
Matthew Arnold: (a) “Dover Beach”; (b) “ Memorial Verses”
Thomas Hardy: (a) “ The Darkling Thrush”; (b “ The Voice”
Gerard Manley Hopkins: (a) “Pied Beauty” (b) “Thou Art Indeed Just
Lord . . .”
W. B. Yeats: (a) “The Second Coming” ; (b) “ Prayer for My Daughter”
T. S. Eliot: “Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock”
W. H. Auden: “In Memory of W. B. Yeats”
Adil Jussawala: “Sea Breeze, Bombay”
Kamla Das: “An Introduction”
Keki N. Daruwalla: “Ghagra in Spate”
Derek Walcott (West Indian): “A Far Cry From Africa”
Wole Soyinka (Nigerian): “Dragonfly at My Window Pane”
Amiri Baraka (African-American): “Wise I”
Judith Wright (Australian): “Bora Ring”
D. Hope (Australia): “Australia”
Michael Ondaatje (Sri Lanka/Canada): “Letters and Other Worlds”
Eunice de Souza (India): “Autobiographical”
Agha Shahid Ali (India): “Postcard from Kashmir” and “A Lost
Memory of Delhi”
A.K. Ramanujan (India) “Love Poem for a Wife I”
Arun Kolatkar (India) “The Priest’s Son” and “The Butterfly”
Sylvia Plath (America): “Mirror” and “Daddy”
Gwendolyn Brooks (America): “The Lovers of the Poor”
Emily Dickinson (America): “After Great Pain, A Former Feeling
Comes”
Geoffrey Chaucer: “Prologue” to The Canterbury Tales (Lines 1-78)
William Shakespeare: “Not marble, nor gilded monuments…”
“Let me not to the marriage of true minds…”
Edmund Spenser: “Prothalamion”
Ben Jonson: “Drink to me…”
John Donne: “Sweetest love I do not goe…”
George Herbert: “Vertue”
Andrew Marvell: “To His Coy Mistress”
John Milton: Lycidas
John Dryden: “MacFlecknoe”
Alexander Pope: “An Epistle to Dr Arbuthnot”
Thomas Gray: “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”
William Blake: “The Chimney Sweeper” (Songs of Experience)
S.T. Coleridge: “Dejection: An Ode”
John Keats: “Ode to Autumn”
Alfred Tennyson: “Ulysses”
D.G. Rossetti: “The Blessed Damozel”
Walt Whitman: “When lilacs last in the door-yard bloomed…”
Emily Dickinson: “Success is counted sweetest...”
Robert Frost: “Mending Wall”
Langston Hughes: “The Negro Speaks of Rivers”
W.B. Yeats: “Sailing to Byzantium”
Dylan Thomas: “Fern Hill”
Alfred Tennyson: ‘The Lady of Shalott’, ‘Crossing the Bar’, ‘The
Defence of Lucknow’
Robert Browning: “The Last Ride Together,” “Porphyria’s Lover’, ‘Fra
Lippo Lippi’
Christina Rossetti: ‘The Goblin Market’
Jibanananda Das: ‘Before Dying’, Windy Night’, ‘I Shall return to this
Bengal’
Sri Sri: ‘Forward March’, From Some People Laugh, Some People Cry.
G.M. Muktibodh: ‘The Void’, ‘So Very Far’
Nissim Ezekiel: Enterprise, ‘Goodbye Party for Miss Pushpa.S.’
Jayanta Mahapatra: ‘Hunger’, ‘Dhauli’, ‘Grandfather’, ‘A Country’
Geoffrey Chaucer: ‘The Wife of Bath’s Prologue and Tale’
Philip Sidney: Selection from Astrophel and Stella: Sonnets 1, 15, 27,
34, 41, 45
Edmund Spenser: Selections from Amoretti: Sonnets XXXIV and LXVII
‘Epithalamion’
John Donne: Elegie: ‘On His Mistress Going to Bed’, ‘The Sunne
Rising’, ‘A Hymn to God My God in My Sicknesse’, ‘Batter My Heart’,
‘Death be not Proud’.
Homer: The Illiad
John Milton: Paradise Lost- Book1 lines 1-26 and Book IX
John Dryden: MacFlecknoe
Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock
Samuel Johnson: ‘London’, ‘The Vanity of Human Wishes’
Oliver Goldsmith: Selections from the The Deserted Village.
lines 35-84. 195-238, 267-339.
Thomas Gray: ‘Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard’, ‘Ode on the
Death of a Favourite Cat’
William Blake: ‘The Lamb’, ‘The Garden of Love’, ‘The Little Black
Boy’ (The Songs of Innocence), ‘The Tyger’ (The Songs of
Experience), ‘London’ (The Songs of Experience).
William Wordsworth: ‘Ode: Intimations of Immortality’, ‘Lines
Composed upon Westminster Bridge’.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: ‘Kubla Khan’
Lord Byron: from ‘Childe Harold’: Canto III. verses 36-45 (Lines 316-
405); Canto IV, verses 178-186 (Lines 1594-1674)
Percy Bysshe Shelley: ‘Ode to Liberty’, ‘Hymn to Intellectual Beauty’.
John Keats: ‘On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer’.
W.B. Yeats: ‘Leda and the Swan’, ‘No Second Troy’, ‘Among School
Children’.
T.S. Eliot: ‘Gerontion’, ‘Sweeney Among the Nightingales’, ‘The
Hollow Men’, ‘Marina’.
Elizabeth Barett Browning: Aurora Leigh. Book V lines 1-447
Emily Dickinson: ‘Because I Could not Stop for Death’, ‘Elysium is as
Far as to’, ‘I had no Time to Hate’, ‘I Felt a Funeral in My Brain’, ‘I
Heard A Fly Buzz’, ‘The Soul Selects Her Own Society’.
Sylvia Plath: ‘Lady Lazarus’ and ‘Soliloquy of a Solipsist’,
Marge Piercy: ‘Rape Poem’, ‘The Consumer’, ‘For shoshana Rihn - Pat
Swinton’, ‘Right to Life’.

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