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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through modernism and postmodernism. It is divided into seven sections that cover: I) the Britons and Anglo-Saxon period including Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, II) the Middle English period including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, III) the Renaissance/Elizabethan period including works by Shakespeare and Marlowe, IV) Puritanism including Milton's Paradise Lost, V) the Enlightenment including works by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jane Austen, VI) Romanticism including works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, VII) the Victorian period including works by Dick

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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through modernism and postmodernism. It is divided into seven sections that cover: I) the Britons and Anglo-Saxon period including Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, II) the Middle English period including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, III) the Renaissance/Elizabethan period including works by Shakespeare and Marlowe, IV) Puritanism including Milton's Paradise Lost, V) the Enlightenment including works by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jane Austen, VI) Romanticism including works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, VII) the Victorian period including works by Dick

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    This document provides an overview of the history and development of English literature from the Anglo-Saxon period through modernism and postmodernism. It is divided into seven sections that cover: I) the Britons and Anglo-Saxon period including Beowulf and The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, II) the Middle English period including Chaucer's Canterbury Tales, III) the Renaissance/Elizabethan period including works by Shakespeare and Marlowe, IV) Puritanism including Milton's Paradise Lost, V) the Enlightenment including works by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Jane Austen, VI) Romanticism including works by Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Shelley, VII) the Victorian period including works by Dick

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    English literature

    I. The Britons and The Anglo-Saxon Period ( from the beginnings- 1o66)
    1. Anglo-Saxon Poetry Beowulf( saga), Bede
    2. Anglo-Saxon Prose The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( King Alfreds period)
    II. The Middle English Period (1066-1500)
    1. Literature in Latin, French and English religious and secular dramas
    2. John Wycliffe translation of the Bible
    3. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
    III. The Renaissance Elizabethan Period (16th century)
    1. Sir Thomas More: Utopia
    2. Poets: Wyatt and Surrey
    3. Prose fiction: Sidney: Arcadia, Spencer: The Shepards Calendar
    4. Drama: a.- Christopher Marlowe
    b. - W. Shakespeare: - sonnets
    - tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet
    - comedies: A Midsummer Nights Dream
    - historical plays: Macbeth, Henry VII
    IV. Puritanism
    1. John Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
    2. John Bunyan
    V. The Enlightenment Neoclassicism (restoration period)
    1. Ben Jonson: The Duchess of Malfi, Volpone
    2. William Congreve: The Way of the World
    3. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock, Messiah
    4. Jonathan Swift: Gullivers travel
    5. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
    6. Tobias Smollett: Humphry Clinker
    7. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
    8. Samuel Richardson: Pamela
    9. Laurence Sterne: Tristam Shandy
    10. Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
    11. Dr. Samuel Johnson
    12. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility
    VI. Romanticism (18th century) reaction to neoclassicism
    1. W. Wordsworth
    2. S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
    3. W. Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
    4. Shelley: Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind
    5. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn
    6. Lord Byron: Don Juan
    VII. The Victorian Period Victorianism or Realism
    1. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House
    2. W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair, The History of Henry Esmond
    3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, The Professor
    4. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
    5. George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy
    6. Thomas Hardy: Tess of DUrbervilles, The Return of the Natives,
    7. Samuel Butler

    VII. Modernism and Postmodernism


    1. Henry James: The Portrait of A Lady, Daisy Miller
    2. Lewis Carol: Alices Adventures in Wonderland
    3. Oscar Wild : The Importance of Being Earnest, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The
    Happy prince, The Devoted Friend, The Selfish Giant, The Model Millionaire
    4. G.B. Shaw: The Devils Disciples, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion
    5. J. Conrad: Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
    6. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
    7. James Joyce: A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man
    8. T.S. Eliot: Waste Land
    9. W. Golding: Lord of the Flies
    10. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
    11. Salman Rushdie: Haround and the Sea of Stories, The New Yorker

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