Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Get acquainted with the literary age, the representative authors and their individual style
    • Get introduced to the poetic forms, prose writings and the dramatic conventions of the time

 

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 Nos. LIV - Because I… and LXXIV -I Never…

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: 

Chopra, D.K.  Essays by Francis Bacon. Ratan Prakash Mandir, 1984.

Ford, Boris. The Age of Chaucer. Atlantic, 1994.

Hamilton, A.C. Philip Sidney : A Study of His Life and Works. CUP, 2012.

Jump, O John.,et.al. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: A Selection of Critical Essays. Palgrave, 2007. 

Patrick, Riley. The Cambridge to Christopher Marlowe. CUP, 2004.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020