Course Information

Renaissance period

  • The age of transition
  • Prose, an emerging genre

Essay

  • What is an Essay?
  • Essay as an literary form
  • Political, social and religious conditions of 16th century.

Francis bacon

  • Francis bacon as a pioneer of prose and essay
  • Life and works of bacon
  • Bacon as a moralist
  • Bacon as a preacher of worldly wisdom
  • Bacon’s philosophy
  • Bacon’s prose style
  • Aphoristic style of bacon

Important essay’s of bacon

  • Of great place
  • Of Friendship
  • Of Studies
  • Of marriage

Reference books

  • History of English literature ( by T SING){The Portion Related To 16th Century}
  • Introduction to English literature ( by HUDSAN)
  • History OF English literature (by COMPTON AND RICKETT)
  • BACON’S essay’s (Text)

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