The Age of Restoration-I

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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: 
Unit 1

John Milton

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty Third Birthday

10.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

8.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Daniel Defoe

Robinson Crusoe

 

9.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

A Satire Against Mankind (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

Source Books: 
  • Norton Anthology
  • Strings of Gold Pt-I Ed. By Jasbir Jain
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Michael Mekecon : The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740 (Dallimare, 1987)
  • Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature
    Vol. IV)- Penguin
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan)
  • George Parfitt : English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (London : 1985)
  • Graham Parry : Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context (Baltimore : 1987)
  • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1, Eds. Frank Kermode et al (OUP, London, 1973)
  • John Milton. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. 2005 . Anmol .
Academic Year: 
2014-2015