The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Learn and reflect upon 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.
10.00
Unit I: 
Unit 1

Alexander Pope                            

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)]

8.00
Unit II: 
Unit 2

John Milton                                                                 

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

10.00
Unit III: 
Unit 3

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

9.00
Unit IV: 
Unit 4

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                                

A Satire Against Mankind

8.00
Unit V: 
Unit 5

Oliver Goldsmith                                                     

She Stoops to Conquer

Source Books: 

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.

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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.

Joseph, T. and Francis.  John Milton: A Critical Study. Anmol Publications, 2005.

Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. Pearson, 1985.

Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Harper Collins, 1987.

Academic Year: 
2021-2022