The Metaphysicals to Milton

Paper Code: 
ENG 123
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
60
Max. Marks: 
100
13.00
Unit I: 

John Donne               

  • The Sunne Rising
  • The Canonization
  • The Extasie
  • A Valediction - Of Weeping
  • A Valediction - Forbidding Mourning
  • The Relic
11.00
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
10.00
Unit III: 

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
Unit IV: 

John Milton 

  • Paradise Lost (Book 1)
10.00
Unit V: 

Ben Jonson

  • The Alchemist
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: 
2023-2024