Course Plan

Lesson Topics
Week
1 1 a) Course introduction
b) Why should we read
English
c) General discussion on
History of English
Literature
2 a) Lecture on beginning of
Golden Era(Video)
b) Discussion/Summary on
Elizabethan age
2 1 a) A brief discussion/
revision of Historical
and political history of
the period
b) Nature of English drama
before Shakespeare
c) Task: Preparing of slides
on the Elizabethan
period
2 a) Life story of non-
dramatic major poet
Edmund Spenser:
b) Minor poet-George
Chapman.
c) Impressions received by
the students: general
discussion
d) Origin of the drama
3 1 a) Shakespeare’s
predecessors in the
drama
b) Introduction to
Christopher Marlowe
and William
Shakespeare
2 a) Introduction to the
prose writers: Francis
Bacon
b) Roles played by the
writers
c) Contributions of the
prose writers.
4 1 a) The Puritan movement
and related issues
 b) Introduction to the
representative poet John
Milton
c) Evaluation of his
contributions
2 a) continue
b) Quiz-1
c) Introduction to history of
Restoration period
Analysis of literary
characteristics of the
period

5 1 a) Life story and

contributions of John
Dryden.

2 b)Eighteenth century
literature: political
Eighteenth century
literature: political
background of the period

6 1 a) Classical age and

writers: Alexander Pope
and

2 a.Jonathan Swift.
7

Quiz 2

8 1 a) Continued
2 Historical Summary. Literary
Characteristics of the
Romantic Age
9 1 Quiz 3
2 Discussion onThe Poets of
Romanticism
10 1 Cont.
2 Introduction to William
Wordsworth.
11 1 Life and contribution of
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
2 Cont. Revision
12 1 Literary contribution of Lord
Byron.
2 Discussion and analysis
13 1 Analysis of Literary
contributions of the two poets
2 continued
14 1 Presentation and assignment
2 Percy Bysshe Shelley as a
romantic poet
15 1 discussion
2 Revision
16 1 John Keats as the youngest
romantic poet
2 Cont.
17 1 Jane Austen-the novelist
2 Cont.
18 1 Historical Summary of
Victorian age
2 More discussion
19 1 Literary Characteristics of the
Age
2 Cont.
20 1 Notable Poets of the
Victorian Age. Alfred
Tennyson
2 More discussion on the topic
21 1 Biography of Robert
Browning.
2 Analysis of literary contributions
22 1 More discussion on the topic
2 .Novelists of the Victorian
Age
23 1 More discussion on the topic
2 The Spirit of Modern
Literature.
24 1 Discussion
2 Revision/Final Examination