To familiarize the students with the literary age and its salient features (poetry and drama); the representative writers and their individual style
Alexander Pope
Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)
An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)]
John Milton
Lycidas
On His Blindness
On His Twenty-Third Birthday
John Dryden
A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
Alexander’s Feast
Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal
Oliver Goldsmith
She Stoops to Conquer
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