Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
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: 
Unit 1

John Donne                                                             

The Sunne Rising

The Canonization

The Extasie

A Valediction - Of Weeping

A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

The Relic

12.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

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 3

Andrew Marvell

The Garden

The Definition of Love

 

Robert Herrick

The Night Piece, To Julia

Delight in Disorder

16.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

John Milton                                                             

Paradise Lost (Book 1)

11.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

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: 
2017-2018