The Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

CO11. Develop an understanding of the religious, socio-intellectual and cultural thoughts of the 17th and 18th centuries

CO12. Critique the key themes in representative texts of the period, including sin,  transgressions, love, pride, revenge, sexuality, and human follies, among others

CO13. Compare and contrast different forms of poetry, such as metaphysical, cavalier, and heroic poetry

CO14. Interpret the literary devices, terms and techniques relevant to the metaphysical school of poetry

CO15.  Formulate an understanding to investigate the metaphysical poetry under the lens of traditional to contemporary critical approaches

 

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Reading assignments, Demonstration

 

Learning activities for the students:

Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Quizzes

Class test, Semester end examinations, Quiz, Assignments, Presentation

 

 

13.00

John Donne                                               

The Sunne Rising

The Canonization

The Extasie

A Valediction - Of Weeping

A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning

The Relic

 

 

11.00
George Herbert
 
Prayer
The Collar
The Pulley
Life
The Flower
 
Henry Vaughan
 
The Retreat
They are all gone into the World of Light
10.00

Andrew Marvell                                        

The Garden

The Definition of Love

The Mower’s Song

 

Robert Herrick                                                         

The Night Piece, To Julia

Delight in Disorder

Corinna’s Going a Maying

 

 

 

16.00

John Milton                                               

Paradise Lost (Book 1)

 

 

 

10.00

Ben Jonson                                                

The Alchemist

 

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

Suggested Readings:

Ford, Boris. From Donne to Marvell. Penguin Books Ltd, 1990.

Gardner, Helen, ed. The Metaphysical Poets.  Penguin Classics, 1960.

Harp, Richard L. Ed. Ben Jonson’s Plays and Masques. Norton, 2001.

Shawcross, John Ted. John Milton: The Critical Heritage. Routledge.2010.

Willmott, Richard. Metaphysical Poetry. CUP, 2002.

 

e-resources:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uu9rkal0dRA (Donne)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42KiENcID4I (Milton)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0UUGiGnvoM (Jonson)
 

Journals:

Milton Studies

Shanlax International Journal of English

Academic Year: