The Metaphysicals to Milton

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

  • The course will enable the students to:

    • Get introduced to the characteristic features of Metaphysical poetry
    • Familiarize themselves with the spirit of the age of Renaissance in selected works
    • Acquire a fuller understanding of the evolution of literary forms and  movements

 

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. Vol. 3. Penguin, 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.

Academic Year: 
2019-2020