To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative writers and their individual traits.
Richard Steele
The Spectator Club
The Trumpet Club
His Account of His Disappointment in Love
The Art of Conversation
Joseph Addison
Sir Roger and Will Wimble
Meditations in Westminster Abbey
Labour and Exercise
Popular Superstitions
J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
A Satire Against Mankind
(from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)
Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Samuel Johnson
The Vanity of Human Wishes
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Milford, Humphrey. Ed. Fifteen Poets. London: Oxford University Press, 1964. Print.
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997. Print.
Allison, Barrow, Blake. The Norton Anthology of Poetry. 3rd ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.
Bevis, Richard W. English Drama: Restoration and Eighteenth Century. London: Routledge, 1988. Print.
Deighton, Kenneth. Coverly Papers from The Spectator. Harvard: Macmillan, 2009. Print.
Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1957. Print.
Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. London: OUP, 1973. Print.