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

Paper Code: 
ENG 113
Credits: 
3
Periods/week: 
4
Objective: 

The course will enable the students to:

  • Learn the salient features of the 17th and 18th century literature and to understand the poetic and prosaic works of the neoclassical era.
  • Develop familiarity with the popular types of literatures of neo-classical period and study the salient features of restoration through the prescribed texts.

 

 

11.00

Alexander Pope                             

Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot (From Fifteen Poets)

An Essay On Man [from Epistle II (I) & Epistle III (IV)]

 

10.00

John Milton                                                                    

Lycidas

On His Blindness

On His Twenty-Third Birthday

 
 

 

8.00

John Dryden

A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day

To the Memory of Mr. Oldham

Alexander’s Feast

 

8.00

Jonathan Swift                                                             

A Modest Proposal

 
 

 

8.00

Oliver Goldsmith                                                       

She Stoops to Conquer

 

Source Books: 

Allison, Barrow Blake. Ed. The Norton Anthology of Poetry . 3rd ed.WW Norton, 1983.

Jain, Jasbir. Ed. Strings of Gold Part I. Macmillan India, 1994.

 

 

SUGGESTED READINGS: 

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. Johns 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. Harper Collins, 1987

Academic Year: 
2020-2021 [2]

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