Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To acquaint the students with:

    (i) the representative authors and their individual traits

              (ii) poetic devices, strategies and applications

13.00
Unit I: 
John Donne

Sunne Rising

 The Canonization

 The Extasie

 A Valediction - Of Weeping

 A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

 The Relic

 

12.00
Unit II: 
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: 
Unit III

Andrew Marvell                                                      The Garden

                                                                    The Definition of Love

 

Robert Herrick                                             The Night Piece, To Julia

                                                                     Delight in Disorder

 

16.00
Unit IV: 
Unit IV

John Milton

Paradise Lost

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit V

Ben Jonson

The Alchemist

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Volumes I, II & III of Boris Ford (ed.) New Pelican Guide to English Literature

•         The Metaphysical Poets (ed.) Helen Gardner (Rupa & Co., New Delhi)

•         From Donne to Marvell : Boris Ford

 

Academic Year: 
2014-2015