The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age -I

Paper Code: 
ENG 112
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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: 
Unit 1

Ben Jonson

Every Man in His Humour (From Macmillan 2010)

14.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

William Shakespeare

Twelfth Night

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Edmund Spencer

Fair proud…

Most Glorious Lord of Lyfe, that on this day…

One day I wrote her name upon the strand

(Sonnets from Amoretti)

Prothalamion

12.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Donne

The Good Morrow

The Flea

Death, be not Proud

Goe & Catche a Falling Starre

The Sunne Rising

Song – Sweetest Love I do not go …

10.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Andrew Marvell

The Garden

To His Coy Mistress

 

Robert Herrick

The Argument of His Book

To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time

Source Books: 

Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin) (,for unit -4 and 5)

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • G. Godon : Shakespearean Comedy and Other Studies
  • Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms, OUP (2004)
  • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets (Penguin)
  • Boris Ford, Ed. : The Age of Shakespeare (Pelican Guide to English Literature Vol.2) – Penguin   
  • From Donne to Marvell Vol.3, Boris Ford, Penguin
  • W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the Study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.)
  • E.E. Stoll : Art and Artifice in Shakespeare
  • Edmund Spenser’s Poetry: Norton Critical Edition
Academic Year: 
2014-2015