The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
Max. Marks: 
100
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
Unit I: 

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
Unit II: 

John Milton

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

8.00
Unit III: 

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

8.00
Unit IV: 

Jonathan Swift

A Modest Proposal

9.00
Unit V: 

Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

Source Books: 
  • Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed. New York: WW Norton, 1983. Print.
  • Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1994. Print.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997. Print.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature .vol. 4. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957. Print.
  • Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Dallimare: John Hopkins University Press, 1987. Print.
  • Milton, John. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2005. Print.
  • Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Pearson, 1985. Print.
  • Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Baltimore: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 1987. Print.
Academic Year: 
2017-2018