The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Objective: 

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

10.00

Alexander Pope                            

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)] (from The Oxford Anthology of English Literature)

 

10.00

John Milton                                                                    

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

8.00

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

 

8.00

Jonathan Swift                                                             

A Modest Proposal

 

9.00

Oliver Goldsmith                                                       

She Stoops to Conquer

 

Source Books: 
  1. Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.
  2. Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt.Ltd., 1994. Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  1. Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997. Print.
  2. Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature .vol. 4. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957. Print.
  3. Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Dallimare: John Hopkins University Press, 1987. Print.
  4. Milton, John. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2005. Print.
  5. Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Pearson, 1985. Print.
  6. Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Baltimore: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 1987. Print.