The Age of Restoration -II

Paper Code: 
ENG 213
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

11.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Alexander Pope

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)]

(from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

7.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Richard Steele

The Spectator Club

The Trumpet Club

His Account of His Disappointment in Love

The Art of Conversation

7.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Joseph Addison

Sir Roger and Will Wimble

Meditations in Westminster Abbey

Labour and Exercise

Popular Superstitions

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

Samuel Johnson 

The Vanity of Human Wishes

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

Source Books: 
  • Fifteen Poets (OUP)
  • The Arts of Essayist (ed. C.H Lockitt)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Boris Ford, Ed. : From Dryden to Johnson (Pelican Guide to English Literature
    Vol. IV) - Penguin
  • M.H. Abrams : A Glossary of Literary Terms (Macmillan)
  • Richard W. Beris : English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century (London: 1988)
  • Coverly Papers from The Spectator (Macmillan’s English Classics)
  • Fifteen Poets (OUP)
  • The Art of the Essayist (ed. C.H. Lockitt)
  • The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol. 1, Eds. Frank Kermode et.al. (OUP, London, 1973)
  • Norton Anthology of Poetry
Academic Year: 
2014-2015