The Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 
  • To acquaint the students with the representative authors and their individual traits.
  • To introduce them to poetic devices, strategies and applications
13.00
Unit I: 

John Donne                                                                

The Sunne Rising

The Canonization

The Extasie

A Valediction - Of Weeping

A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

The Relic

12.00
Unit II: 

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
Unit III: 

Andrew Marvell                                                      

The Garden

The Definition of Love

 

Robert Herrick                                                         

The Night Piece, To Julia

Delight in Disorder

16.00
Unit IV: 

John Milton                                                                

Paradise Lost (Book 1)

11.00
Unit V: 

Ben Jonson                                                                 

The Alchemist

SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. United Kingdom: New York: Penguin Books Ltd, 1990. Print.
  • Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Penguin Classics, 1960. Print.

                       

Academic Year: 
2016-2017