Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
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, strategies and applications

13.00
Unit I: 
John Donne

The Sunne Rising

The Canonization

The Extasie

A Valediction - Of Weeping

A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

The Relic

12.00
Unit II: 

George Herbert                

  • Prayer
  • The Collar
  • The Pulley
  • Life
  • The Flower

Henry Vaughan

  • The Retreat
  • They are all gone into the World of Light
8.00
Unit III: 

Andrew Marvell              

  • The Garden                   
  • The Definition of Love

Robert Herrick                

  • The Night Piece, To Julia
  • Delight in Disorder
16.00
Unit IV: 
John Milton

Paradise Lost (Book 1)

11.00
Unit V: 
Ben Jonson

The Alchemist

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Penguin Classics, 1960. Print.
  • Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. United Kingdom: New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990. Print.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019