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The Restoration Age -I (Poetry and Drama) [1]

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
3
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

10.00
Unit I: 
Alexander Pope
  • Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)
  • An Essay on Man [from Epistle II(I) & Epistle III(IV)] (from The Oxford Anthalogy of English Literaure)
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

9.00
Unit V: 
Oliver Goldsmith

She Stoops to Conquer

Source Books: 
  • Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry (3rd Edition). New York: WW Norton, 1983.
  • Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. New Delhi: Macmillan Publishers India Pvt. Ltd., 1994.
SUGGESTED READINGS: 
  • Michael Mekecon. The Origin of the English Novel, 1600-1740. Dallimare: John Hopkins University Press, 1987.
  • Ford, Boris. Ed. From Dryden to Johnson – The Pelican Guide to English Literature (Vol. 4). Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1957.
  • Abrams, M.H. A Glossary of Literary Terms. Wadsworth: Macmillan, 1997.
  • Parfitt, George. English Poetry of the Seventeenth Century. New York: Pearson, 1985.
  • Parry, Graham. Seventeenth Century Poetry: The Social Context. Baltimore: Harper Collins Publishers Ltd, 1987.
  • Kermode, Frank, et al. The Oxford Anthology of English Literature, Vol.1. London: OUP, 1973.
  • Milton, John. A Critical Study by T Joseph and Francis. New Delhi: Anmol Publications, 2005.
Academic Year: 
2018-2019 [2]

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