The Metaphysical Age

Paper Code: 
ENG 212
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

  
 

The students will:

  1. Acquire knowledge and understanding of the social and religious conditions of the age
  2. Develop an understanding of the writing style of the metaphysical poets
  3. Demonstrate ability to critically analyze the poems of the metaphysical poets
  4. Assess the metaphysical features in the poetry of the prescribed poets
  5. Reflect upon and review the English Essay and the Essayists of the age

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

  

 

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 …

 
 

 

10.00

George Herbert

The Agonie

Redemption

Prayer

Love III

Vertue

The Collar

 
 

 

9.00

Henry Vaughan                                           

The Retreat

They are all gone into the world of light

Corruption

The World

 
 

 

7.00

Andrew Marvell

The Garden

To His Coy Mistress

 

Robert Herrick                                             

The Argument of His Book,

To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time

 
 

 

7.00

Richard Lovelace                                     

To Amarantha…

The Scrutinie

 

Sir John Suckling

Of thee kind boy…

Out upon it…
 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Source Books:

Gardner, Helen. Ed. The Metaphysical Poets. OUP, 1961.

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

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

 

Suggested Readings :

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

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

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

Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. Trinity Press,1999.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

 

 

 

Academic Year: 
2022-2023