IGNOU MEG-01 British Poetry | Detailed Syllabus

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Here you will get the full syllabus for the IGNOU MEG 1 : British Poetry

The syllabus of IGNOU MEG 1 is divided in 10 blocks and each block is again divided in units.

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IGNOU MEG 1 Syllabus Structure

Block 1 - Orientation for the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer

  • Unit 1 – From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems
  • Unit 2 – A Prelude to the Study of Poetry
  • Unit 3 – The Age of Chaucer
  • Unit 4 – Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey
  • Unit 5 – The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
  • Unit 6 – A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-I
  • Unit 7 – A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-II
MEG-01 Block 1 Summary

Block 2 – Undertaking A Study of Spenser

  • Unit 8 – The Renaissance
  • Unit 9 – Edmund Spenser
  • Unit 10 – Spenser’s Poetry- I
  • Unit 11 – Spenser’s Poetry- II
MEG-01 Block 2 Summary

Block 3 - The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert

  • Unit 12 – Poetry and Society in the Seventeenth Century (Pre-Restoration)
  • Unit 13 – John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of four Love Poems
  • Unit 14 – John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith
  • Unit 15 – George Herbert: A Study of Poems
  • Unit 16 – Andrew Marvell: A Study of his Poems
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Block 4 - Studying Milton

  • Unit 17 – The Late Renaissance
  • Unit 18 – Milton: The Life
  • Unit 19 – A Survey of Milton’s lesser Poems and Prose
  • Unit 20 – ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ and ’Lycidas’
  • Unit 21 – ‘L’Allegro’, ‘II Penseroso’ and the Sonnets
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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
MEG-01 Block 5 Summary

Block 6 - The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge

  • Unit 27 – Introduction to Romantic Poetry
  • Unit 28 – William Blake
  • Unit 29 – Wordsworth’s The Prelude Book I: A Critical Analysis
  • Unit 30 – Coleridge: Kubla Khan & ‘Dejection’: An Ode’
MEG-01 Block 6 Summary

Block 7 - The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats

  • Unit 31 – The Poet of Volcanic Hope: P.B. Shelley
  • Unit 32 – A Study of the Triumph of Life
  • Unit 33 – Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-I
  • Unit 34 – Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-II
  • Unit 35 – The Romantic Age: A Review
MEG-01 Block 7 Summary
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Block 8 – The Victorian Poets: Browning, D.G. and Christina Rossetti & Oscar Wilde

  • Unit 36 – The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
  • Unit 37 – Robert Browning: Life and Aspirations
  • Unit 38 – Robert Browning: Two Early Poems
  • Unit 39 – Two Poems from Men and Women (1855)
  • Unit 40 – The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Unit 41 – Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Goal
MEG-01 Block 8 Summary

Block 9 – The Modernist Poets

  • Unit 42 – Modern British Poetry: An introduction
  • Unit 43 – W.B. Yeats: Background, System and Poetic Career Until
  • Unit 44 – The Eater Poetry of W.B. Yeats
  • 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
MEG-01 Block 9 Summary

Block 10 – Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin & Sylvia Plath

  • Unit 48 – Dylan Thomas
  • Unit 49 – Philip Larkin and Movement Poetry
  • Unit 50 – Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
  • Unit 51 – So! Now! What is Poetry? Once again: A Symposium
  • Unit 52 – Essays and Evaluations
MEG-01 Block 10 Summary