16TH TO 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH LITERATURE – 2 (ENGLISH – PAPER 4) – TYBA Semester 6 (MU)

SECTION A : The Restoration Period (1660-1700)
1. Characteristics of Restoration Period (Major events of the age and their impact on literature)
2. Restoration Poetry (Epic, Mock epic, Satire)
3. Restoration Drama Comedy of Manners, Heroic Tragedy
4. Diary Writing

SECTION B : Neo-Classical Period (1700-1798)
1. Neo-Classical/Augustan
2. Age of Satire
3. Rise of the Periodical Essay and the Novel

Unit II : John Dryden : All for Love OR Oliver Goldsmith : She Stoops to Conquer

Unit III : Selected Verse from the Puritan Era, the Restoration Period and the 18th Century Restoration Period
(A) John Milton : from Paradise Lost Book I
(B) Alexander Pope : The Rape of the Lock – Canto II Lines 1-54
(C) John Dryden : “The Fire of London”