The Metaphysical Age

Paper Code: 
ENG 212
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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

John Donne                                                                    

The Good Morrow

The Flea

Death, be not Proud

Goe and Catche a Falling Starre

The Sunne Rising

Song – Sweetest Love I do not go …

 

15.00

George Herbert

TheAgonie

Redemption

Prayer

Love

Virtue

The Collar

 

10.00

Henry Vaughan                                                           

The Retreat

They are all gone into the world of light

Corruption

The World

 

14.00

Andrew Marvell

The Garden

To His Coy Mistress

 

Robert Herrick                                                            

The Argument of His Book,

To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time

 

9.00

Richard Lovelace                                     

To Amarantha…

The Scrutinie

 

Sir John Suckling

Of the kind boy…

Out upon it…

 

Source Books: 

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

Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915. Print.

Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970. Print.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: OUP, 2008. Print.

Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1969. Print.

Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936. Print.

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication,1999. Print.