Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To acquaint the students with: (i) the representative authors and their individual traits (ii) poetic devices, strat

To acquaint the students with:

         (i) the representative authors and their individual traits

            (ii) poetic devices, strategies and applications

egies and applications

13.00
Unit I: 
Geoffrey Chaucer

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

12.00
Unit II: 
Edmund Spenser

Epithalamion

9.00
Unit III: 
Philip Sidney
  • He seeks Inspiration…
  • The Sleepless Lover
  • With how sad…
  • My True Love
  • Sonnet No. LIV - Because I breathe...
  • Sonnet No. LXXIV - I never drank....

(from Astophel and Stella)

12.00
Unit IV: 
Christopher Marlowe

Dr. Faustus

14.00
Unit V: 
Francis Bacon

Of Truth

Of Death

Of Revenge

Of Adversity

Of Parents

Of Marriage and Single Life

Of Envy

Of Love

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. The Age of Chaucer. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1994.
  • D.K. Chopra. Essays by Francis Bacon. Agra: Ratan Prakash Mandir, 1984.
  • Jump, O John.,et.al. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: A Selection of Critical Essays. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
  • Patrick, Riley. The Cambridge to Christopher Marlowe. New York: CUP, 2004.
  • Piero, Biotani. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. New York: CUP, 2003.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019