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Eng 315– survey of ENGLISH AND AMERICAN literature

Submitted by:
Kimberly a. templonuevo

Bsed-english/3a

Submitted to:
Prof. Zyra mae t. tumala
Compilation of Authors
Literary Authors Literary works Description of works

 Geoffrey Chaucer-  The Canterbury  This is Chaucer's most

Born: London, United Tales famous work and a
Kingdom cornerstone of English
Died: October 25, literature. A collection of
1400, London, United diverse stories narrated
Kingdom. He was the by pilgrims on a journey.
first writer to be buried Composed of nobility,
in what has since religious, the merchant
come to be class and the
called Poets' Corner, commoners.
in Westminster Abbey.
Father of English
Literature.

 Sir Thomas Malory  Le Morte d'Arthur  This is a compilation of

Born: England, United Arthurian legends. It
Kingdom chronicles the life and
Died: March 14, times of King Arthur, his
1471, Newgate knights, and the quest for
Prison. He was an the Holy Grail. It's
English knight during considered one of the
the War of the Roses most influential works on
(1455-1487 CE) best the Arthurian legend.
known for his highly
influential work
of medieval
literature, Le Morte
D'Arthur.
 Christopher Marlowe -  Tamburlaine the  Marlowe's plays are
Father of English Great some of the greatest
Tragedy  Doctor Faustus English tragedies.
 The Jew of Malta "Doctor Faustus" is a
 Edward II masterpiece based on
 The Passionate the legend of a wizard
Shepherd to His who sells his soul to the
Love ("Come Live devil for power and
with me and be my knowledge.
love."
 Edmund Spenser-  The Faerie
Born: London, United  He composed this
Queene elaborate allegory in
Kingdom
Died: January 13, honor of the Queen of
1599, London. He is Fairyland (Queen
considered one of the Elizabeth I). Each verse
preeminent poets of in the Spenserian stanza
the English language. contains nine lines: eight
He was born into the lines of iambic
family of an obscure pentameter, with five
cloth maker named feet, followed by a single
John Spenser, who line of iambic hexameter,
belonged to the an "alexandrine," with
Merchant Taylors’ six. The rhyme scheme
Company and was of these lines is
married to a woman ababbcbc-cdcdee.
named Elizabeth,
about whom almost
nothing is known.
 Ben Jonson –
 Song to Celia  A love poem.
Born: June 11,
1572, Westminster,
London, United
 Kingdom
Died: August 16,
1637, London, United
Kingdom
poet,dramatist, and
actor, best known for
his lyrics and satirical
plays.
 William
Shakespeare(1564-  Venus and Adonis
1616) - the great  Rape of Lucrece  A narrative poem
genius of the
 More than 35
Elizabethan Age
plays (e.g.Hamlet,  Shakespeare's plays
Romeo and Juliet, cover a wide range of
As you like it, themes such as tragic,
Henry V) comedies, and historical.
 154 sonnets And his sonnets address
love, beauty, and human
experience with profound
thoughts and vivid
 John Milton(1608- language.
1674)- English poet,  Paradise Lost
 An epic poem in twelve
pamphleteer, and books, narrating Satan's
historian, considered rebellion, the creation of
the most significant earth, and the temptation
English author after and fall of Adam and
William Shakespeare. Eve. Known for its
majestic blank verse and
 Thomas Hobbes profound themes.
 Leviathan  A political treatise
discussing themes of
political authority, social
contract, and the nature
 Thomas
 Cavalier Poets of a just government.
Carew, Sir
 These poets used direct
John Suckling,
and colloquial language,
Richard
celebrating the lively and
Lovelace, and
casual aspects of life.
other Cavalier
Poets
 John Donne (1572-
2631)- The English
writer and Anglican  Metaphysical  These poets used direct
cleric who is poets and colloquial language,
considered now to be celebrating the lively and
the preeminent casual aspects of life.
metaphysical poet of
his time.

 John Locke  Two Treatises of

 laid the groundwork for
Government
modern political theory,
emphasizing natural
rights and the social
 An Essay contract.
Concerning  explores the nature of
Human human knowledge and
 Jonathan Swift (1667- Understanding understanding.
1745)  Gulliver’s Travels
 It is a satire on human
folly and stupidity. Swift
said that he wrote it to
 vex the world rather than
to divert it.
 Modest Proposal  Is a bitter pamphlet that
ironically suggests that
the Irish babies be
specially fattened for
profitable sale as meat,
since the English were
eating the Irish people
anyhow – by heavy
 Alexander Pope taxation.
(1688-1744)  Essay on Criticism  Contains classic
statements like “Fools
rush in where angels fear
to tread” and “To err is
human, to forgive,
divine.”
 Is a mock-heroic
 The Rape of the
couplets poem satirizing
Lock
a trivial social incident.
 Addresses the nature of
 Essay on Man
man, his place in the
universe, and his
 Thomas Gray (1716- relationship with God.
71)  Elegy Written in a  A collection of 18th-
Country century commonplaces
Churchyard expressing concern for
 Henry Fielding (1707- lowly folk.
54)  Tells the story of a young
 Tom Jones
foundling who is driven
from his adopted home,
wanders to London, and
eventually, for all his
 Laurence Sterne suffering, wins his lady.
(1713-68)  Tristram Shandy  A novel in nine volumes
showcasing a series of
loosely organized funny
episodes in the life of
 Oliver Goldsmith Shandy.
(1728-74)  She Stoops to  Is a comedy of manners
Conquer that satirizes the
18thCentury aristocracy
who is overly class
 Daniel Defoe (1660- conscious.
1731)  The Shortest Way  It is a satirical pamphlet
with the Dissenters that led to Defoe's arrest.
 Robinson Crusoe  It's a classic novel about
a shipwrecked sailor’s
survival on deserted
island.
 Robert Burns (1759-
96) is also known as  The Castle of  Robert Burns, Horace
the national poet of Otranto Walpole, Ann Radcliffe,
Scotland because he and Matthew Gregory
wrote not only in Lewis are Gothic writers
Standard English, but who crafted stories of
also in the light Scot’s
terror and imagination.
dialect.
 Horace Walpole  The mysteries of
Udolpho
 Ann Radcliffe
 The Monk
 Matthew Gregory
Lewis
 Mary Wollstonecraft  Followed gothic tradition
 Shelley (1797-1851)  Frankenstein
 William Blake was known
 William Blake (1757- for his mystical and
1827) was both poet  The lamb
symbolic approach to
and artist. He not only  The tyger poetry and art. He
wrote books, but he  The sick Rose believed that everything
also illustrated and in the world had a
printed them. He deeper spiritual meaning.
devoted his life to
freedom and universal
love. He was
interested in children
and animals the most
innocent of God's
creatures.
 Coleridge, like
 Samuel Taylor
Wordsworth, celebrated
Coleridge (1772-  The Rime of the
nature in his poetry. He
1834)- Ancient Mariner
believed that poetry
should be simple,
sensuous, and able to
evoke powerful
emotions.

 He found beauty in the

 William Wordsworth
realities of nature, which
(1770-1850), together  The World is Too he vividly reflects in
with Coleridge, Much with Us, those poems.
brought out a volume  I Wandered Lonely
of verse, Lyrical as a Cloud,
Ballads, which  She Dwelt Among
signaled the the Untrodden
beginning of English Ways
Romanticism.  She was a
Phantom of
 Charles Lamb (1775- Delight
1834)  Dissertation on
Roast Pig
 He also rewrote
many of
Shakespeare's
plays into stories
for children in
Tales from
Shakespeare.

 Sir Walter Scott

 The Lay of the
(1771-1832)
Last Minstrel
 The Lady of the
Lake
 Between 1814 and
1832 Scott wrote
32 novels which
include Guy
Mannering and
 Jane Austen (1775- Ivanhoe
1817) a writer of  Pride and
realistic novels about Prejudice
English middle-class  Northanger Abbey,
people.  Persuasion,
 Mansfield Park,
  Emma,
 Sense and
Sensibility.
 George Gordon Byron  Childe Harold’s  Many of his works are
(1788-1824) was an Pilgrimage, meditative.
outspoken critic of the  She Walks in
evils of his time.
Beauty,
 The Prisoner of
Chillon
 Percy Bysshe Shelley  Prometheus
(1792-1822), together Unbound
with John Keats,  The Cloud,
established the  To a Skylark,
romantic verse as a  Ode to the West
poetic tradition. Wind  an elegy he wrote for his
 Adonais- best friend John Keats.
 It spoke of what Keats
 John Keats (1795-  Ode to a called “negative
1821) believed that Nightingale capability,” describing it
true happiness was to as the moment of artistic
be found in art and inspiration when the poet
natural beauty. achieved a kind of self-
annihilation arrived at
that trembling, delicate
perception of beauty.

 From A Thing of
Beauty is a Joy
Forever
 It is a disguised study of
 Alfred Tennyson ethical and social
 Idylls of the King
(1809-92) wrote conditions.
seriously with a high  It deals with conflicting
scientific and social
moral purpose.  Locksley Hall, In
Tennyson epitomized ideas.
Memoriam, and
the Victorian poet,  In Memoriam A.H.H.": A
 Maud
reflecting the temper series of 131 short
and concerns of his poems, a prologue, and
age. He grappled with an epilogue expressing
social reform, self- Tennyson's personal
reflection, and the journey in grappling with
tension between faith and trust after the
science and religion. death of his close friend
Alfred Hallam.
 An epic poem that tells a
 .Robert Browning
 The Ring and the murder story from
(1812-89) is best
Book," multiple perspectives,
remembered for his
exploring themes of
dramatic monologues.
justice, truth, and human
Also known for his
romantic involvement nature.
with Elizabeth Barrett,  These two dramatic
one of the most monologues that delve
popular love affairs in  "Porphyria's into the complex
English literature. Lover," psychology of their
 "My Last narrators, revealing their
Duchess." obsessions and dark
emotions
 A collection of 43 love
 Sonnets from the sonnets, expressing
 Elizabeth Barrett
Portuguese Barrett Browning's deep
Browning (1806-1861)
affection for her husband
wrote the most
Robert Browning. These
 exquisite love poems lyrics were written
of her time in Sonnets secretly while Robert
from the Portuguese. Browning was courting
her.
 A multi-layered novel that
examines the lives and
 George Eliot (1819-  Middlemarch
relationships of various
80) was one of
characters in the fictional
England's greatest
town of Middlemarch,
women novelists. Her
offering a profound
novels often explored
exploration of human
complex social and
nature and society.
moral issues.
 A novel that follows the
life of the titular
 Charlotte Bronte  Jane Eyre character, Jane Eyre, an
(1816-1855)-wrote
orphaned governess, as
romantic novels
she navigates love,
morality, and
independence in 19th-
century England.
 A novel centered around
 Emily Bronte (1818-  Wuthering Heights the passionate and
1848)- romantic destructive love between
novels Heathcliff and Catherine
Earnshaw, set in the
atmospheric moors of
Yorkshire.
 Explores the
 .Samuel Butler (1835-  The Way of All relationships between
1902) believed that Flesh parents and children
evolution is the result where he reveals that the
of the creative will family restrains the free
rather than of chance development of a child.
selection.
 Lewis Carroll (Charles  Combines fantasy and
 Alice's Adventures satire.
Lutwidge Lutwidge
in Wonderland and
Dodgson) (1832-98)
 Through a Looking
Glass

 Virginia Woolf (1882-  Explores the inner

 Mrs. Dalloway thoughts and
1941) believed that
reality, or experiences of Clarissa
consciousness, is a Dalloway, an upper-class
stream. Life, for both woman in post-World
reader and War I England.
characters, is  An introspective novel
immersion in the flow  To the Lighthouse that delves into the inner
of that stream. lives of the Ramsay
family, focusing on their
summer trips to the Isle
of Skye.
 He depicts characters
 Joseph Conrad (1857-  The Nigger of the
beset by obsessions of
1924) wrote Narcissus and,
cowardice, egoism, or
remarkable. and  Lord Jim
vanity.
experimental novels.
 These novels explored
 .D.H. Lawrence  Sons and Lovers highly psychological
(1885-1930)  Women in Love, themes as human desire,
 The Plumed sexuality, and instinct
Serpent, and alongside the
 Lady Chatterley’s dehumanizing effects of
 Lover. modernity and
Industrialization.
 It is one of the most
notable bildungs-roman
 James Joyce (1882-  The Portrait of the in English literature. A
1941) was an Irish Artist as a Young bildungsroman is a novel
expatriate noted for Man’. of formation or
his experimental use development in which
of the interior the protagonist
monologue and the transforms from
stream of ignorance to knowledge,
consciousness innocence to maturity.
technique in landmark  Tells of a group of
Novels. schoolboys who revert to
 William Golding (born  Lord of the Flies savagery when isolated
1911) was awarded on an island. Golding
the Nobel Prize for explores naturalist and
literature in 1983. religious themes of
original sin.
 Shropshire Lad, nature is
unkind; people struggle
 A.E. Housman (1859- without hope or purpose;
1936) was an anti-  Shropshire lad
boys and girls laugh,
Victorian who echoed love and are untrue.
the pessimism found
in Thomas Hardy.  A satirical novella that
serves as an allegory for
 George Orwell (1903- the Russian Revolution
1950) was an English  Animal farm(1945)
and the subsequent
author and journalist emergence of Stalinism.
known for his keen  Provides a bleak
intelligence, social portrayal of a society
justice advocacy,  Nineteen Eighty
Four under complete
opposition to government control. It
totalitarianism, and serves as a cautionary
belief in democratic tale about the dangers of
socialism. totalitarianism and the
potential loss of
individual freedoms.