Chaucer to the Elizabethans

Paper Code: 
ENG 122
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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: 
Unit 1

Geoffrey Chaucer                              

The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

Edmund Spenser                              

Epithalamion

9.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

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: 
Unit 4

Christopher Marlowe                         

Dr. Faustus

14.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018