Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To acquaint the students with the representative authors and their individual traits.
  • To introduce them to poetic devices, strategies and applications.
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: 
  • D.K. Chopra. Essays by Francis Bacon. Agra: Ratan Prakash Mandir, 1984.Print.
  • Ford, Boris. The Age of Chaucer. New Delhi: Atlantic, 1994. Print.
  • Jump, O John.,et.al. Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus: A Selection of Critical Essays. New York: Palgrave, 2007.  Print.
  • Patrick, Riley. The Cambridge to Christopher Marlowe. New York: CUP, 2004. Print.
  • Piero, Biotani. The Cambridge Companion to Chaucer. New York: CUP, 2003.

 

Academic Year: 
2016-2017