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UNIT-II PROTHALAMION and EPITHALAMION EDMUND Notes SPENSER Structure ALAGAPPA UNIVERSITY (Accredited with ‘A+’ Grade by NAAC (with CGPA: 3.64) in the Third Cycle and Graded as category - I University by MHRD-UGC)(A State University Established by the Government of Tamilnadu) KARAIKUDI – 630 003 DIRECTORATE OF DISTANCE EDUCATION M.A. ENGLISH III SEMESTER 32031 BRITISH LITERATURE - I Copy Right Reserved For Private Use only Author : Dr. P. Balamurugan, Assistant Professor & Head, Department of English, N.M.S.S. Vellaichamy Nadar College, Madurai. “The Copyright shall be vested with Alagappa University” All rights reserved. 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SYLLABI PAGE NO BRITISH LITERATURE-I BLOCK I: POETRY – I 1-11 Unit – I Geoffrey Chaucer :Prologue to the Canterbury Tales Unit – II Edmund Spenser Prothalamion and Epithalamion 12-23 Unit – III John Donne:The Good Morrow, A Valediction: Forbidding 24-45 Mourning, Death Be Not Proud BLOCK II: POETRY – II 46-65 Unit – IV Andrew Marvell To His Coy Mistress, the Garden Unit – V George Herbert The Pulley, Virtue 66-75 Unit – VI Alexander Pope An Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot 76-93 BLOCK III: PROSE 94-111 Unit – VII Thomas More Utopia Unit – VIII The Bible Gospel According to St.Mark 112-128 Unit – IX Francis Bacon Of Truth, Of Death, Of Parents and Children, Of 129-153 Marriage and Single Life, and Of Studies Unit – X Jonathan Swift The Battle of the Books 154-167 BLOCK IV: DRAMA AND FICTION Unit – XI Thomas Kyd The Spanish Tragedy 168-180 Unit – XII Christopher Marlowe Dr. Faustus 181-193 Unit – XIII Sheridan School for Scandal 194-213 Unit – XIV Oliver Goldsmith The Vicar of Wakefield 214-238 MODEL QUESTION PAPER 239-240 CONTENT PAGE NO UNIT-I PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES GEOFFREY 1-11 CHAUCER 1. Introduction 1.1Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life And Works 1.2Writing the Canterbury Tales 1.3Character List 1.3.1 The Knight 1.3.2 The Squire 1.3.3The Yeoman 1.3.4 The Prioress 1.3.5The Monk 1.4 Check your progress 1.5End –Exercises 1.6Suggested Readings UNIT-II PROTHALAMION AND EPITHALAMION 12-23 2. Introduction 2.1Objectives 2.2Spenser’s Life 2.3Works of Edmund Spenser 2.4 Introduction to Prothalamion 2.4.1Summary of Prothalamion 2.5 Introduction to Epithalamion 2.5.1Summary of Epithalamion 2.6 Check your progress questions 2.7 End –Exercises 2.8 Suggested Readings EDMUND SPENSER UNIT - III THE GOOD MORROW, A VALEDICTION FORBIDDING 24-45 MOURNING, DEATH B NOT PROUD JOHN DONNE 3. Introduction 3.1John Donne’s Life and works 3.2Summary of “The Good Morrow” 3.3Check your progress 3.4End exercise 3.5Summary of “A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning” 3.6Check your progress 3.7 End exercise 3.8 Summary of “Death be not proud” 3.9 Check your progress 3.10End exercise 3.11Suggested Readings BLOCK II: POETRY - II 46-65 UNIT-IV TO HIS COY MISTRESS, THE GARDEN ANDREW MARVELL 4.Introduction 4.1Characteristics of Metaphysical poetry 4.2Andrew Marvell’s Life and Works 4.3Summary of "To His Coy Mistress" 4.4Stanza wise explanation of "To His Coy Mistress" 4.5Analysis of "To His Coy Mistress" 4.6Check your progress 4.7End –Exercises 4.8Summary of "The Garden" 4.9Stanza wise explanation of " The Garden " 4.10Analysis of " The Garden " 4.11Check your progress 4.12End –Exercises 4.13Suggested Readings UNIT-V THE PULLEY, VIRTUE GEORGE HERBERT 66-75 5.Introduction 5.1George Herbert’s Life and Works 5.2Summary of “The Pulley “ 5.3Analysis of “The Pulley” 5.4Summary of “Virtue “ 5.5Stanza wise explanation of “Virtue “ 5.6Check your progress 5.7End –Exercises 5.8Suggested Readings UNIT-VI AN EPIST TO DR.ARBUTHNOT ALEXANDER POPE 76-93 6.Introduction 6.1Alexander Pope’s Life and Works 6.2Summary 6.3Stanza wise Explanation 6.4Check your progress 6.5End –Exercises 6.6Suggested Readings BLOCK III: PROSE 94-111 UNIT-VII UTOPIA THOMAS MORE 7 .Introduction 7.1Thomas More ‘s Life and Works 7.2Characters 7.3Summary 7.4Themes 7.5Check your progress questions 7.6End –Exercises 7.7Suggested Readings UNIT-VIII GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST.MARK THE BIBLE 112-128 8.Introduction 8.1King James I’s Life and Works 8.2Summary 8.3Analysis 8.4Plot Overview 8.5Character List 8.6Themes 8.7Quotations 8.8Check your progress 8.9End –Exercises 8.10Suggested Readings UNIT-IX OF TRUTH, OF DEATH, OF PARENTS AND CHILDREN, OF 129-153 MARRIAGE AND SINGLE LIFE, AND OF STUDIES FRANCIS BACON 9.Introduction 9.1Francis Becon’s Life and Works 9.2“Of Truth” Summary 9.3Check your progress 9.4“Of Death” Summary 9.5Check your progress 9.6“Of Parents and Children” Summary 9.7Check your progress 9.8“Of Marriage and Single Life” Summary 9.9Check your progress 9.10“Of Studies” Summary 9.11Check your progress 9.12End –Exercises 9.13Suggested Readings UNIT-X THE BATTLE OF THE BOOKS JONATHAN SWIFT 154-167 10.Introduction 10.1Jonathan Swift’s Life and Works 10.2Summary 10.3Analysis 10.4Themes 10.5Check your progress questions 10.6End –Exercises 10.7Suggested Readings BLOCK IV: DRAMA AND FICTION UNIT-XI THE SPANISH TRAGEDY THOMAS KYD 168-180 11. Introduction 11.1 University Wits 11.2.Thomas Kyd’s Life and Works 11.3 Thomas Kyd in Elizabethan England 11.4. Characters 11.5 Synopsis of the Play 11.6 Check your progress 11.7 End –Exercises 11.8. Suggested Readings UNIT-XII DR. FAUSTUS CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 181-193 12.Introduction 12.1Objectives 12.2Marlowe’s Life and Works 12.3Reputation among contemporary writers 12.4Characters 12.5Synopsis of the Play 12.6Check your progress questions 12.7Answer to check your progress questions 12.8Unit –End –Exercises 12.9Suggested Readings UNIT-XIII SCHOOL FOR SCANDAL SHERIDAN 194-213 13.Introduction 13.1Anti-Sentimental Comedy 13.2Sheridan’s Life and Works 13.3Characters 13.3.1Character Analysis 13.4Act wise Summary 13.5Summary of the play 13.6Check your progress questions 13.7Answer to check your progress 13.8End –Exercises 13.9Suggested Readings UNIT-XIV THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD OLIVER GOLDSMITH 214-238 14.Introduction 14.1Oliver Goldsmith’s Life and Works 14.2Characters 14.3Summary 14.4Themes 14.5The Vicar of Wakefield as a Sentimental Fiction 14.6Quotes and Analysis 14.7Check your progress 14.8End –Exercises 14.9Suggested Readings MODEL QUESTION PAPER 239-240 Prologue to the Canterbury Tales BLOCK I: POETRY – I Geoffrey Chaucer UNIT-I PROLOGUE TO THE CANTERBURY TALES GEOFFREY Notes CHAUCER Structure 1. Introduction 1.1Geoffrey Chaucer’s Life And Works 1.2Writing the Canterbury Tales 1.3Character List 1.3.1 The Knight 1.3.2 The Squire 1.3.3The Yeoman 1.3.4 The Prioress 1.3.5The Monk 1.4 Check your progress 1.5End –Exercises 1.6Suggested Readings 1. INTRODUCTION Dwarfed by the mighty accomplishments of Geoffrey Chaucer at one end and the great Elizabethans at the other, fifteenth century poetry has often seemed to stretch like a lesser plain between mountain ranges. There is some truth to this view: By no standard was this a distinguished age in the history of English verse. The English Chaucerian tradition, running from John Lydgate and Thomas Hoccleve to Stephen Hawes, can boast no major poet and only a paucity of significant minor ones, and rarely did fifteenth century works in the well-established popular genres of metrical romance, saint’s life, and lyric match the high achievements of the century before. Indeed, the best-known literary productions of the 1400’s—the prose Arthurian romance of Sir Thomas Malory and the dramatic cycles of the Corpus Christi season—belong to genres other than poetry. Poetry in this period may have suffered a general undervaluation owing to comparisons that it cannot sustain. If one approaches fifteenth century poetry with chastened expectations and sensitivities attuned to the artistic aims of this period as distinct from others, one can find work of real interest and value. For example, although the age found little original stimulus in matters of poetic form, the carol attained its fullest development during this time, and the ballad was beginning to take shape. Finally, at the turn of the century, three Scots “makars”—Robert Henryson, William Dunbar, and Gavin Douglas— 1 Self-Instructional Material Prologue to the Canterbury produced verse of a sufficiently high order to warrant labeling the reign of Tales Geoffrey Chaucer James IV a brief “golden age” of literary Scotland. Although it is always hazardous to speculate on the connections between history and artistic felicity, it remains true that the political and social climate in the fifteenth century did not favor literary achievement. Notes The international stage was still dominated by the Hundred Years’ War with France; Henry V’s successful invasion, crowned by the victory of Agincourt in 1415, committed his successors to a costly, protracted, and ultimately futile defense of this new French territory against the onslaughts of Joan of Arc and the French king. Meanwhile, in England itself the weakness of Henry VI encouraged factionalism and intrigue, which finally erupted in the Wars of the Roses between the Lancastrians and the Yorkists. It was a nation tired of war and depopulated of much of its nobility that welcomed the restoration of civil order in 1485 with the crowning of Henry VII and the establishment of the Tudor dynasty.
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