The English Renaissance and Metaphysical Age-II

Paper Code: 
ENG 212
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.

12.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Christopher Marlowe

Edward, the Second

15.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

William Shakespeare 

Hamlet

8.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

Francis Bacon

Of Studies

Of Superstition

Of Youth and Age

Of Friendship

 

8.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

George Herbert

The Agonie

Redemption

Prayer

Love

Virtue

The Collar

7.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Henry Vaughan

The Retreat

They are all gone into the world of light

Corruption

The World

Source Books: 
  • Essays of Bacon (Penguin) (For unit 3)
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • A.C. Bradley : Shakespearean Tragedy
  • 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.   
  • B. Prasad: A Background to the Study of English Literature (Macmillan)
  • W.H. Hudson : An Introduction to the Study of Literature (George. G. Harrap & Co.)
  • Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare (OUP)
Academic Year: 
2014-2015