The Metaphysical Age

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: 

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
Unit II: 

George Herbert

The Agonie

Redemption

Prayer

Love

Virtue

The Collar

10.00
Unit III: 

Henry Vaughan

The Retreat

They are all gone into the world of light

Corruption

The World

14.00
Unit IV: 

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
Unit V: 

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.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018