The Metaphysical Age

Paper Code: 
ENG 212
Credits: 
4
Periods/week: 
4
Max. Marks: 
100
Objective: 

To familiarize the students with the respective literary ages and their salient features, various literary movements and trends and the representative poets and their individual traits.

12.00
Unit I: 
John Donne
  • The Good Morrow
  • The Flea
  • Death, be not Proud
  • Goe and Catche a Falling Starre
  • The Sunne Rising
  • Song – Sweetest Love I do not go …
15.00
Unit II: 
George Herbert
  • The Agonie
  • Redemption
  • Prayer
  • Love
  • Virtue
  • The Collar
10.00
Unit III: 
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
The are all gone into the world of light
Corruption
The World
14.00
Unit IV: 
Andrew Marvell

 

  • The Garden
  • To His Coy Mistress

Robert Herrick

  • The Arguement of His Book
  • To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
9.00
Unit V: 
Richard Lovelace

 

  • To Amarantha
  • The Scrutinie

Sir John Suckling

  • Of the kind boy...
  • Out upon it...
Source Books: 
  • Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970.
  • Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Oxford, 1961.
  • Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London:  J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: OUP, 2008.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1969.
  • Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication, 1999.
  • Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936.
  • Wells, Stanley. Oxford Dictionary of Shakespeare. London: OUP, 1998.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019