NPTEL : NOC:Poetry (Humanities and Social Sciences)

Co-ordinators : Prof. S P Dhanavel


Lecture 1 - The Relevance of Poetry

Lecture 2 - Approaching Poetry

Lecture 3 - Functions of Poetry

Lecture 4 - Forms of Poetry

Lecture 5 - Poetic Devices

Lecture 6 - The Music of Poetry

Lecture 7 - Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343-1400)

Lecture 8 - The Prologue

Lecture 9 - Elizabethan Poetry

Lecture 10 - Sir Thomas Wyatt

Lecture 11 - Henry Howard: The Earl of Surrey

Lecture 12 - Sir Philip Sidney

Lecture 13 - Edmund Spenser (1552-1559)

Lecture 14 - Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

Lecture 15 - Samuel Daniel (1563-1619)

Lecture 16 - William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Lecture 17 - Metaphysical Poetry

Lecture 18 - John Donne - 1

Lecture 19 - John Donne - 2

Lecture 20 - George Herbert

Lecture 21 - Henry Vaughan

Lecture 22 - Andrew Marvell

Lecture 23 - John Milton - 1

Lecture 24 - John Milton - 2

Lecture 25 - Neo-Classical and Pre-Romantic Poetry

Lecture 26 - John Dryden - 1

Lecture 27 - John Dryden - 2

Lecture 28 - Alexander Pope - 1

Lecture 29 - Alexander Pope - 2

Lecture 30 - Thomas Gray

Lecture 31 - William Collins

Lecture 32 - William Blake

Lecture 33 - Romantic Poetry

Lecture 34 - William Wordsworth - 1

Lecture 35 - William Wordsworth - 2

Lecture 36 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Lecture 37 - John Keats

Lecture 38 - Percy Bysshe Shelley

Lecture 39 - Victorian Poetry

Lecture 40 - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Lecture 41 - Robert Browning

Lecture 42 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Lecture 43 - Matthew Arnold

Lecture 44 - Gerard Manley Hopkins

Lecture 45 - Modernist Poetry

Lecture 46 - William Butler Yeats

Lecture 47 - T S Eliot - 1

Lecture 48 - T S Eliot - 2

Lecture 49 - Wilfred Owen

Lecture 50 - Dylan Thomas

Lecture 51 - American Poetry

Lecture 52 - Robert Frost

Lecture 53 - Wallace Stevens

Lecture 54 - William Carlos Williams

Lecture 55 - A R Ammons

Lecture 56 - Langston Hughes

Lecture 57 - Feminist Poetry

Lecture 58 - Maya Angelou

Lecture 59 - Adrienne Rich

Lecture 60 - Sylvia Plath

Lecture 61 - P. K. Page

Lecture 62 - Judith Wright

Lecture 63 - Contemporary British Poetry

Lecture 64 - Seamus Heaney

Lecture 65 - Carol Ann Duffy

Lecture 66 - Simon Armitage

Lecture 67 - Indian Poetry in English

Lecture 68 - Nissim Ezekiel

Lecture 69 - Kamala Das

Lecture 70 - A K Ramanujan

Lecture 71 - Jayanta Mahapatra

Lecture 72 - Discussion-1 - Part 1

Lecture 73 - Discussion-1 - Part 2

Lecture 74 - Discussion-2 - Part 1

Lecture 75 - Discussion-2 - Part 2

Lecture 76 - Outro to Poetry - Conclusion