Syllabus For The Subject English - I

UNIT – 1 ANNOTATIONS

UNIT – 2 POETRY
(a) Shakespeare – Sonnet No. 1 From Fairest Creatures, Sonnet No.
154, The little Love God.
(b) Milton – How soon Hath Time the Subtle Thief of Youch…
(c) John Donne – Sweetest love I don’t go, This is my play’s Last Scene.

UNIT – 3 POETRY
(a) John Dryden – Portrait of Shadwell
(b) Alexander – Pope – From An Essay on Criticism (True case in writing…) and The
World’s Victor Stood Subdued by Sound.

UNIT – 4 PROSE
(a) Bacon of Studies….of Health…. of Friendship.
(b) Addison – Sir Roger at Home.
(c) Steele of the Club.

UNIT – 5 DRAMA
Shakespeare – The Merchant of Venice.

UNIT – 6 FICTION
Swift – The Battle of the Books.

UNIT – 7 HISTORICAL AND LITERARY TOPICS
(i) The Renaissance
(ii) Humanism
(iii) Reformation
(iv) The Restoration
(v) The Rise of Colonialism
(vi) The Earlier Drama
(vii) Petrachism and the Sonnet Cycle
(viii) The influence of Seneca and Classical Dramatic Theory
(ix) The Elizabethan and Jacobean stage
(x) Restoration Drama
(xi) The Rise of Periodical Essay.