• Classical Poetry
• Semester: Spring 2020
• Class: BS-IV (Self Support)
• Credit Hours: 03

                                This course is a study of poetic forms from English verse. Important biographical details in the lives of selected poets, the influence of historical, cultural, and artistic context on selected major works, and the use of literary devices will be analyzed.

          Intended learning outcomes 

                      The course aims at  :

•  Introducing the students to the classical period of English Poetry beginning from the Medieval Period to its growth and development into the Eighteenth Century.
• Hence selections of poetry composed by the most representative poets of the respective eras are included in it. It begins from Chaucer in the 14th century and ends with the neo-classical period of Pope in 18th century. The selection is intended to make the readers aware of not only the development of genres but also the development of English Language.

              Class Timings 

             BS IV (SS) 

           Mon-Tue:        3:30-5:00 PM

           Course Material

 Course Outline, Learning Outcomes, Recommended Books, Weekly Plan and Assessment Criteria

Course outline 

I-​Chaucer:

​A-​The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

II-​Spencer:

​A-​The Faerie Queen (Book 1 canto1)

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III-​John Milton:

A- Paradise lost

Book 1 (line 1-100) & speeches f Satan​

B- Book ii speeches f Adam and Eve​

IV-​William Shakespeare’s Sonnets

•            A. When I consider everything that grows
•         B. Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
•        C.   Weary with toil I haste me to my bed
•          D. Why didst thou  promise such a beauteous  day.       
•         E.  That thou hast her it is not all my grief .
•         F. Take all my loves, my love, ye take them all
•           G. What  is your substance ,whereof are you made?
•         H.  how much more doth beauty beauteous seem?

Suggested Readings :

          History of English Literature by T. Singh

• Skeat: Textual Analysis
• Bowden, M. (1967) A Commentary on the Prologue. MacMillan.
• Kermode, F. (1971) Shakespeare , Spenser, Donne (Introduction). Routledge&Kegan Paul.
• Leishman; “The Monarch of wit”.
• Beer, P. (1972) The Metaphysical Poets. McMillan.
• Dyson, A.E(ed) (1966) Heroic Poetry. McMillan.
• Daiches, D. (1971) Milton. Hutchinson & Co.
• B.Rajan” ‘The Lofty  Rhyme’
• Fraser, G. (1978) Alexander Pope. Routledge&Kegan Paul.
• Rudrum, A. (1968)  Milton. McMillan.
• Quennell, P. (1968) Alexander Pope. Weildfeld& Nicolson 

Evaluation / Assessment criteria

sessional :      20

Project :           05

Presentations: 05

Participation :   05

Attendance :     05

Mid term exam/Assessment : 30

Final term exam/Assessment: 50