Semester I — The Renaissance Period
Sem I · Unit I · Poetry
Six Prescribed Poems
Milton (Sonnet 19) · Shakespeare (Sonnet 130) · Donne · Marvell · Herrick · Carew — full close readings
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Sem I · Unit II · Drama
Romeo and Juliet
Shakespeare — plot, themes, characters, key scenes, tragic structure, quotations & exam guide
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Sem I · Unit III · Novel
Robinson Crusoe
Defoe — four readings, Friday & postcolonial analysis, narrative technique, rise of the novel
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Sem I · Unit IV · Prose
Pepys & Swift — Diary & Letters
Diary of Samuel Pepys (Jan 1660) + Journal to Stella (Letters I–III) — analysis & comparison
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Semester II — The Neoclassical Period
Sem II · Unit I · Poetry
The Faerie Queene — Book I
Spenser — epic tradition, three-level allegory, Redcrosse, Una, Despair, Spenserian stanza
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Sem II · Unit II · Drama
She Stoops to Conquer
Goldsmith — laughing vs. sentimental comedy, characters, central trick, themes, title
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Sem II · Unit III · Novel
Tom Jones
Fielding — comic epic in prose, omniscient narrator, Tom vs. Blifil, three-part structure
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Sem II · Unit IV · Prose
Three Neoclassical Essays
Steele "Coffee-house" · Lamb "The Londoner" · Goldsmith "War" — periodical essay tradition
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