SYLLABUS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PART 1 NEW ONE

IN THE NAME OF ALLAH
SYLLABUS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PART 1 --BY NIKKHOO
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WEEK 1: Anglo-Saxons literature
Beowulf; Doer’s Lament; King Alfred

WEEK 2: Medieval Period: Mystery, Miracle and Morality plays: Everyman--Geoffrey Chaucer`s Canterbury Tales

Week 3: The Renaissance: Edmund Spencer (The Faerie Queene )
Sir Philip Sidney; Apology for Poetry, Arcadia: a pastoral --Sir Thomas More: A Man for all Season( the movie ) ; Utopia

Week 4: Renaissance Tragedy: Christopher Marlowe (Dr. Faustus )
Ben Jonson; Sejanus: his Fall-- John Webster:
The White Devil – The Duchess of Malfi

WEEK 5 The Bard, William Shakespeare (King Lear: Othello: Macbeth: Hamlet; The Tempest )


Week 6 : Important prose writers of the Renaissance:
Raphael Holinshed, Sir Thomas Brown, Robert Burton
Francis Bacon (Essays) -- John Lyly( Euphues)
John Bunyan (The Pilgrim’s Progress)-Thomas North


Week7: Metaphysical poetry-- John Donne
Andrew Marveli, George Herbert
MID-TERM EXAM

Week8: late Renassance; John Milton: L’Allegro
Areopagitica, Paradise Lost, Lycidas
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WEEK9: The Restoration Period
John Dryden: Alexander’s Feast , Absalom & Achitophel – Annus Mirabilis
George Etherege : The Comical Revenge --William Congreve,The Way of the World --William Wycherley; Love in a Wood


WEEK 10: NOVEISTS-- Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson , Lawrence Stern

WEEK11: PHILOSOPHERS-- John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton, Bacon



WEEK12: The Neo-Classical Period: Alexander Pope:
Essay on Man – Essay on Criticism
The Rape of the Locke

WEEK13: Jonathan Swift
A Modest Proposal – Gulliver’s Travels

WEEK14 :Dr. Samuel Johnson 1704-84
Vanity of Human Wishes – Rasselas, Preface to Shakespeare --
John Gay Beggar’s Opera

Week15: The AGE OF SENSIBILITY: James Thomson The Seasons –
Thomas Wharton The Pleasure of Melancholy
William Collins: Ode to Evening, Ode to Liberty,
Thomas Gray An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Edward Young Love of Fame William Cowper The Task

WEEK16: REVIEW. AND the topics left incomplete which I felt guilty over, thinking that I should have said more! Good luck


Sources:
The Routledge Short History of literature in English by Malcolm Bradbury
The Norton Anthology of English Literature—any edition
The Oxford Concise Companion to English Literature by Margaret Drabble
Oxford Short History of English Literature by by Andrew Sanders
The Greatest World Classics – the CD


MORE SOURCES
An Outline of English Literature by G. C. Thornley and Gwyneth Roberts
A Survey of English Literature Vols.1 and 2 by Abjadian
An Outline of American Literature by Peter B High
The Norton Anthology of American Literature-ANY EDITION
The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English by Ian Ousby