The Restoration Age - I (Poetry and Drama)

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
03
Periods/week: 
03
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the literary age and its salient features (poetry and drama); the representative writers and their individual style

 

11.00
Unit I: 

Alexander Pope                            

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

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

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

Unit V: 

Oliver Goldsmith                                                       

She Stoops to Conquer

Source Books: 

Allison, Alexander W. et al. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed. WW Norton, 1983.

 

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.

Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. John 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. Baltimore: Harper Collins, 1987.


 

Academic Year: 
2019-2020