Dryden to Samuel Johnson

Paper Code: 
ENG 223
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
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

 

14.00
Unit I: 

John Dryden                                                              

Absalom and Achitophel  (Part I)

12.00
Unit II: 

Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books

12.00
Unit III: 

Alexander Pope                                                                   

The Rape of the Lock

12.00
Unit IV: 

Samuel Johnson                                                      

Preface to Shakespeare                

10.00
Unit V: 

J.M. Synge                                                                    

The Playboy of the Western World

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Clay, N.L. The English Critic: From Chaucer to Auden. Atlantic Publishers, 2001.

Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature . Vol. 4. Penguin, 1957.

McMillin, 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: 
2019-2020