The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
04
Periods/week: 
04
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

Course Outcomes

Teaching-Learning Strategies

Assessment Strategies

 
 

The students will:

  1. Analyze the texts within the larger religious, socio-intellectual and cultural frame
  2. Develop skills of critical analysis of representative texts of the period
  3. Understand the representative writers of the Restoration age and the literary and stylistic features of their writings, for reflecting on a wide range of thematic concerns
  4. Appreciate the genres of poetry and drama in terms of themes, use of literary devices, forms and techniques
  5. Inculcate an understanding of the literary devices, forms and techniques, and other stylistic features of drama

 

Approach in teaching:

Interactive Lectures, Discussion, Tutorials, Writing assignments

 

Learning activities for the students:

Self- learning assignments, Effective questions, Seminar presentation, Giving tasks

 

Class test, Semester end examinations Solving problems in tutorials, Assignments, Presentation, Individual and group projects

 

 

10.00

Alexander Pope                            

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

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

 

8.00

John Milton                                                  

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

 

 

 

10.00

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

 

9.00

J .Wilmot, Earl of Rochester                      

A Satire Against Mankind

 

8.00

Oliver Goldsmith                                         

She Stoops to Conquer

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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.

 

E-Resources:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=uxvtpEz5GRc

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