The English Renaissance

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits

14.00
Unit I: 
Ben Jonson

Every Man in His Humour (from Macmillan 2010)

10.00
Unit II: 
Chistopher Marlowe

Edward, the Second

12.00
Unit III: 
Wiiliam Shakespeare

Hamlet

10.00
Unit IV: 
Francis Bacon
  • Of Studies
  • Of Superstition
  • Of Youth and Age
  • Of Friendship
 
10.00
Unit V: 
Edmund Spenser

Fair Proud...

Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day...

One day I wrote her name upon the strand (Sonnets from Amoretti)

Prothalamion

Source Books: 

Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Oxford, 1961.

(for units 4 and 5)

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • G. Gordon. Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies. London: Oxford, 1944.
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: OUP, 2004.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Donne to Marvell – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 3). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1983.
  • Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936.
  • Stoll, E.E. Art and Artifice in Shakespeare. New York: Macmillan, 1933.
  • Hadfield, Andrew and A. L. Prescott. Ed. Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: Norton Critical Edition. Pennsylvania: Norton, 1969.
Academic Year: 
2015-2016