Poetry (A) Shakespeare To 18th Century

Syllabus

Poetry (A) [Shakespeare to 18^th Century]

UNIT I

Literary Terms, Forms of Poetry:

Lyric, Sonnet, Elegy, Ode, Ballad, Augustan Verse Satire, Dramatic Monologue, Epic: Scope and Types

UNIT-II

William Shakespeare:      “True Love”*

Michael Drayton:             “Since There’s No Help”*

John Milton:                    “On His Blindness”*

UNIT III

John Donne:              “Present in Absence”*

John Dryden:             “The Poet Shadwell”* from MacFlecknoe

Alexander Pope:        Lines on Addison from “An Epistle to Dr.

      Arbuthnot”*

UNIT IV

Thomas Gray:            “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard”*

William Blake:           “London”*

Note: All the works marked with an asterisk (*) are for
detailed study.