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
Allison, Alexander W. et al. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed. WW Norton, 1983.
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.
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[1] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/courses/subjects/restoration-age-i-poetry-and-drama
[2] https://english.iisuniv.ac.in/academic-year/2019-2020