The Metaphysical Age

Paper Code: 
ENG 212
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

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 1 (12 Hrs.)

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 2 (15 Hrs.)

 

George Herbert                                         The Agonie

                                                                  Redemption

                                                                  Prayer

                                                                  Love

                                                                  Virtue

                                                                  The Collar

 

10.00
UNIT III: 
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
The 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 Arguement 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: 
SOURCE BOOKS: 
  • Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970.
  • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Oxford, 1961.
  • Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: OUP, 2008.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1969.
  • Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
  • Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936.
  • Wells, Stanley. Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare. London: OUP, 1998.

 

Academic Year: 
2015-2016