The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
- Representation of 14th Century in England
- Humour
- Satire and Irony
- Chaucer’s Treatment of Ecclesiastical Characters
- Chaucer’s Contribution in English Language and Versification
- Chaucer: A Medieval as well as Modern
Faerie Queene (1590) by Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- As an Allegory
- Plan and Purpose of the Poem
- Elements of Renaissance and Reformation
- As an Epic or Romance
- Edmund Spenser as a Poet
Love and Divine Poems by John Donne (1572-1631)
- As a Metaphysical Poet
- Wit in Donne’s Poetry
- Conceits in Donne’s Poetry
- A Critical Evaluation of The Sun Rising, Good Morrow, Twicknam Garden
- John Donne as a Love Poet
Paradise Lost (1667) by John Milton (1608-1674)
- Epic Similes
- Milton’s Grand Style
- Blank Verse
- Description of Hell
- Who is the Hero? / A Character Sketch of Satan
- Satan’s Speeches
- An Assessment of Milton as a Poet
Absalom and Achitophel (1681) by John Dryden (1631-1700)
- Political Satire / Political Allegory
The Rape of the Lock (1712) by Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- A Character Sketch of Belinda
- As a Representative Poem / Social Satire
- Supernatural Machinery
- As a Mock-Epic Poem
- Alexander Pope as a Poet
- Augustan Age in English Literature
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