Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To acquaint the students with:

    (i) the representative authors and their individual traits

              (ii) poetic devices, strategies and applications

13.00
Unit I: 
Geoffrey Chaucer

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

 

13.00
Unit II: 
Edmund Spenser

Epithalamion

10.00
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…                                            

                                           

10.00
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: 

Volumes I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English Literature

•         The English Critic: From Chaucer to Auden , ed by Clay, Norman Llewellyn

•       Edmund Spenser's Amoretti and Epithalamion: A Critical Edition by Kenneth Larsen

 

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015