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The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)
The course will enable the students to:
- Learn the salient features of the 17th and 18th century literature and to understand the poetic and prosaic works of the neoclassical era.
- Develop familiarity with the popular types of literatures of neo-classical period and study the salient features of restoration through the prescribed texts.
Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)
An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)]
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John Milton Lycidas On His Blindness On His Twenty-Third Birthday
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John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Alexander’s Feast
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Jonathan Swift A Modest Proposal
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Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed.WW Norton, 1983.
Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. Macmillan India, 1994.
Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Macmillan, 1997.
Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature .vol. 4.Penguin, 1957.
Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1987.
Milton, John. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. Anmol Publications, 2005.
Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. Pearson, 1985.
Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Harper Collins, 1987