Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 
  • To acquaint the students with:
  • (i) the representative authors and their individual traits
  • (ii) poetic devices, strategies and applications
13.00
John Donne 
The Sunne Rising
The Canonization
The Extasie
A Valediction - Of Weeping
A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning
The Relic
12.00
George Herbert
Prayer
The Collar
The Pulley
Life
The Flower
 
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
They are all gone into the World of Light
8.00
Andrew Marvell
The Garden
The Definition of Love
 
Robert Herrick
The Night Piece, To Julia
Delight in Disorder
16.00
John Milton
Paradise Lost (Book 1)
Ben Jonson
The Alchemist
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Penguin Classics, 1960. Print. 
  • Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. United Kingdom: New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990. Print.