ENGLISH SEMESTER - I SYLLABUS
Subject:- English
PAPER:- 16th and 17th Century Literature
Unit I:-
Literary Terms:- Blank Verse, Sonnet, Lyric, Hyperbole, Conceit, Alliteration, Simile, Metaphor, Allegory, Tragedy, Soliloquy.
Introduction to the Age and Movements:- Elizabethan to Jacobean (1558-1625), Caroline to Commonwealth (1625-1660), Renaissance, Puritanism, Metaphysical School of Poetry.
Unit II:-
*Edmund Spenser: One Day I Wrote Her Name
*Christopher Marlowe: The face that launched a thousand ships
*John Donne: Go and catch a falling star
Holy Sonnet 10: “Death Be Not Proud”.
*George Herbert: The Pulley
*John Dryden: A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
Unit III:-
*Bacon: Of Studies, Of Travel
*Montaigne: Of Friendship
John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress
Unit IV:-
*Shakespeare: Macbeth
Unit V:-
Voices from India:-
Bhakti Movement:- History and Social Impact, Nirgun Bhakti and Sagun Bhakti Poertry.
*Songs of Meera: mai maine govind leeno mol (2), Hari tum harau jan ke peer (6).
*Kabir Poems: mo ko kahdn dhunro bande (I.13), santan jot na pucho nirguriydn (I.16),
is ghat antar bag baglce (I 101.), dariyd kl lahar dariyao hai jl (II 56).
Tiruvalluvar: Chapter 11 (On Gratitude) and Chapter 36 (On True Knowledge).
[*Detailed Study]
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