To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits
10.00
Unit I:
Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)
An Essay on Man [from Epistle II(I) & Epistle III(IV)] (from The Oxford Anthalogy of English Literaure)
10.00
Unit II:
John Milton
Lycidas
On His Blindness
On His Twenty-Third Birthday
8.00
Unit III:
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Alexander’s Feast
8.00
Unit IV:
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
9.00
Unit V:
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
Source Books:
Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (3rd Edition). New York: WW Norton, 1983.
Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1994.
SUGGESTED READINGS:
Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Dallimare: John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Pearson, 1985.
Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Baltimore: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 1987.
Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. London: OUP, 1973.
Milton, John. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2005.