MEG-01 English Topics Covered
Block 1 – Orientation for the Study of Poetry & The Medieval Poet Chaucer
- Unit 1 – From the Evaluation of Portraits towards the Explication of Poems
- Unit 2 – A Prelude to the Study of Poetry
- Unit 3 – The Age of Chaucer
- Unit 4 – Chaucer’s Poetry: A General Survey
- Unit 5 – The General Prologue to The Canterbury Tales
- Unit 6 – A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-I
- Unit 7 – A Study of ‘The Nonnes Preests Tale’-II
Block 2 – Undertaking A Study of Spenser
- Unit 1 – The Renaissance
- Unit 2 – Edmund Spenser
- Unit 3 – Spenser’s Poetry- I
- Unit 4 – Spenser’s Poetry- II
Block 3 – The Metaphysical Poets: Donne, Herbert
- Unit 1 – Poetry and Society in the Seventeenth Century (Pre-Restoration)
- Unit 2 – John Donne: Portrait of the Man, His Thematic and Technical Innovations and Textual Study of four Love Poems
- Unit 3 – John Donne: Further Explorations into Poems of Love and Faith
- Unit 4 – George Herbert: A Study of Poems
- Unit 5 – Andrew Marvell: A Study of his Poems
Block 4 – Studying Milton
- Unit 1 – The Late Renaissance
- Unit 2 – Milton: The Life
- Unit 3 – A Survey of Milton’s lesser Poems and Prose
- Unit 4 – ‘On the Morning of Christ’s Nativity’ and ’Lycidas’
- Unit 5 – ‘L’Allegro’, ‘II Penseroso’ and the Sonnets
Block 5 – The Neoclassical Poets: Dryden and Pope
- Unit 1 – The Age of Dryden
- Unit 2 – John Dryden
- Unit 3 – Mac Flecknoe
- Unit 4 – Pope: A Background to an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
- Unit 5 – Pope: The Study of an Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot
Block 6 – The Romantic Poets: Blake, Wordsworth & Coleridge
- Unit 1 – Introduction to Romantic Poetry
- Unit 2 – William Blake
- Unit 3 – Wordsworth’s The Prelude Book I: A Critical Analysis
- Unit 4 – Coleridge: Kubla Khan & ‘Dejection’: An Ode’
Block 7 – The Second Generation Romantic Poets: Shelley & Keats
- Unit 1 – The Poet of Volcanic Hope: P.B. Shelley
- Unit 2 – A Study of the Triumph of Life
- Unit 3 – Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-I
- Unit 4 – Keats: Hyperion: A Fragment-II
- Unit 5 – The Romantic Age: A Review
Block 8 – The Victorian Poets: Browning, D.G. and Christina Rossetti & Oscar Wilde
- Unit 1 – The Victorian Age: Selected Studies
- Unit 2 – Robert Browning: Life and Aspirations
- Unit 3 – Robert Browning: Two Early Poems
- Unit 4 – Two Poems from Men and Women (1855)
- Unit 5 – The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood: Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Unit 6 – Oscar Wilde: The Ballad of Reading Goal
Block 9 – The Modernist Poets
- Unit 1 – Modern British Poetry: An introduction
- Unit 2 – W.B. Yeats: Background, System and Poetic Career Until
- Unit 3 – The Eater Poetry of W.B. Yeats
- Unit 4 – T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-I
- Unit 5 – T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-II
- Unit 6 – T.S.Eliot: The Waste Land-III
Block 10 – Some Modernist and Postmodernist Poets: Dylan Thomas, Philip Larkin & Sylvia Plath
- Unit 1 – Dylan Thomas
- Unit 2 – Philip Larkin and Movement Poetry
- Unit 3 – Sylvia Plath and Confessional Poetry
- Unit 4 – So! Now! What is Poetry? Once again: A Symposium
- Unit 5 – Essays and Evaluations