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.
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 …
George Herbert
TheAgonie
Redemption
Prayer
Love
Virtue
The Collar
Henry Vaughan
The Retreat
They are all gone into the world of light
Corruption
The World
Andrew Marvell
The Garden
To His Coy Mistress
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book,
To the Virgins, To Make Much of Time
Richard Lovelace
To Amarantha…
The Scrutinie
Sir John Suckling
Of the kind boy…
Out upon it…
Helen Gardner, Ed. The Metaphysical Poets. London: Oxford, 1961. Print.
Walker, Hugh. English Essay and Essayists. London: J.M. Dent & Sons, 1915. Print.
Williams, Emrys. Ed. A Book of English Essays. London: Pelican, 1970. Print.
Baldick, Chris. Oxford Concise Dictionary of Literary Terms. London: OUP, 2008. Print.
Ford, Boris. Ed. The Age of Shakespeare – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 2). Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1969. Print.
Hudson, W.H. An Introduction to the Study of Literature. London: George. G. Harrap & Co., 1936. Print.
Prasad, B. A Background to the Study of English Literature. New Delhi: Trinity Press Publication,1999. Print.
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