Major · 01/ENG/MJR/403T · 2026–27 intake

English Poetry From Chaucer To Milton

Semester VII · 6 credits · 5 units

Examination scheme & source discrepancies

The source lists 3 hours, 120 end-semester marks and 30 sessional marks.

Some marking instructions are internally inconsistent. Confirm the current pattern with your department; the practice questions here do not claim to reproduce it.

Scheme of Examination Maximum Marks: 120 Time: 03 Hours Part-1 Total ten questions (2 from each unit). Answer to these questions shall be limited to 30 words each. (10 X 2 =20) Part -2 : Unit-1: Two references out of four from the prescribed poems. (2x 10=20) Candidate shall answer one out of two questions from each unit 2,3,4 and 5. Answer to these questions shall be limited to 500 words. (4 X 20 =80)

Paradise Lost has no book or line range in this honours paper; do not import the Semester I line range.

Examination scheme wording was missing from the first transcription and has been filled from the owner-supplied PDF (p.30); the full college copy prints the same text across pp.119–120.

Unit IThe Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

1 entry

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Chaucer:The Prologue to the Canterbury Tales

Source syllabus · page 118

Unit III Find No Peace / My Lute Awake and more

7 entries

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Thomas Wyatt: ‘I Find No Peace’; ‘My Lute Awake’. Shakespeare: ‘They That Have Power to Hurt’; ‘When in Disgrace with Fortune’; ‘Why is My Verse So Barren of New Pride’; ‘That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold’; My Mistress’s Eyes are Nothing like the Sun’

Source syllabus · page 118

Unit IIIThe Canonization / A Lecture upon the Shadow and more

7 entries

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John Donne: ‘The Canonization’; ‘A Lecture upon the Shadow’; ‘The Good Morrow’; ‘A Valediction Forbidding Mourning’; ‘A Valediction of Weeping’; ‘At the Round Earth’s Imagined Corners’; Batter My Heart, Three Person’d God’

Source syllabus · page 118

Unit IVDiscipline / Church Monuments and more

4 entries

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George Herbert: “Discipline”, “Church Monuments”, “The Collar” John Milton: Paradise Lost,

Extraction artefacts were removed for readability. The manifest retains the raw transcription; compare the source PDF for exact wording.

Source syllabus · page 118

Unit VLycidas

1 entry

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John Milton : “Lycidas”.

Source syllabus · page 118

Recommended readings in the source

  • Bennet , H.S. : Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century.Oxford University Pres, 1947
  • C.S. Lewis : Allegory of Love. Cambridge UniversityPress, 2013.
  • Ford , Boris : The Pelican Guide to English Literature, Vol. I, II, III, IV& V. Penguin Books, 1958.
  • Gardner, Helen : Metaphysical poet. Books way, 2016.