Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • To acquaint the students with:
  • (i) the representative authors and their individual traits
  • (ii) poetic devices, strategies and applications
13.00

Geoffrey Chaucer The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

13.00

Edmund Spenser Epithalamion 

10.00
Philip Sidney 
He seeks Inspiration…
The Sleepless Lover
With how sad…
My True Love 
Sonnet Nos. LIV - Because I… and LXXIV -I Never…
10.00

Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus

14.00
Francis Bacon
Of Truth
Of Death
Of Revenge
Of Adversity
Of Parents
Of Marriage and Single Life
Of Envy
Of Love
 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. The Age of Chaucer. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1994.
  • D.K. Chopra. Essays by Francis Bacon. Agra: Ratan Prakash Mandir, 1984.
  • Jump, O John.,et.al. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: A Selection of Critical Essays. New York: Palgrave, 2007.
  • Patrick, Riley. The Cambridge to Christopher Marlowe. New York: CUP, 2004.
  • Piero, Biotani. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. New York: CUP, 2003.