Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Paper Code: 
ENG 223
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Objective: 
The course will enable the students to:
• Familiarize themselves with the respective literary age and their salient features
• Understand the representative writers and their individual style
• Acquire knowledge of the political, economic, social and intellectual background so as to enable them to study the literary works as representative of the period
 
Learning Outcomes -
The students will be able to:
• Acquire knowledge and understanding of the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural thoughts of the 17th and 18th centuries 
• Get an insight into the critically keys themes in the representative texts of the period
• Appreciate the genres of poetry and drama in terms of the socio-cultural contexts, use of literary devices, forms and techniques 
 
14.00
John Dryden
Absalom and Achitophel  (Part I)
12.00
Jonathan Swift
The Battle of the Books
12.00
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
12.00
Samuel Johnson
Preface to Shakespeare
10.00
J.M. Synge
The Playboy of the Western World 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
Clay, N.L. The English Critic: From Chaucer to Auden. Atlantic Publisher, 2001.
Ford, Boris, ed. The Pelican Guide to English Literature. 2005. 
MacMillin, Scott, ed. Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy. W.W. Norton and Company, 1997. 
Owen, Susan J, ed. A Companion to Restoration Drama.  Blackwell Publications, 2001.
Palmer,John. The Comedy of Manners.Forgotten Books.2018. 
Stephen, Leslie. Alexander Pope.Macmillan, 1888. 
T., Joseph, and Francis S. John Dryden: A Critical Study. Anmol Publications, 2006.
Academic Year: 
2020-2021