Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Paper Code: 
ENG 223
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with:

  1. the representative writers and their individual traits
  2. poetic devices, strategies and applications
  3. interpretation and analysis of the text

 

 

14.00
Unit I: 
Unit I

John Dryden

Absalom and Achitophel (PArt I)

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit II

Jonathan Swift

The Battle of the Books 

12.00
Unit III: 
Unit III

Alexander Pope                                                    The Rape of the Lock

 

10.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

Samuel Johnson                                                   Life of Milton

 

12.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Richard Sheridan                                                 The Rivals

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Chapters 1 & 2 the relevant volume of Boris Ford (Ed.) The Pelican Guide to English Literature

•        Alexander Pope : Stephen

•        The English Critic : From Chaucer to Auden

•        John Dryden : A Critical Study – Joseph. T.

•       Restoration and Eighteenth Century Comedy (Norton Critical Edition)

Academic Year: 
2014-2015