English Literature

1. Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066):

2. Middle English Period (1066-1500):
3. The Renaissance (1500-1660):
3.1 Elizabethan Period (1558-1603): Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, George
Chapman, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville
The University Wits: Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, Thomas Nashe, Robert Greene,
John Lyly and George Peele
3.2 Jacobean Period (1603-1625): Ben Johnson, Francis Bacon, John Donne, Robert Herrick
3.3 Puritan/Commonwealth Period (1620-1660): John Milton, John Bunyan
4. Neo-Classical Period (1660-1795):
4.1 Augustan Period (1700-1745): Alexander Pope, Deniel Defoe, Jonathan Swift
5. Romantic Period (1798-1832): Lord Byron, P.B. Shelley, John Keats, William Wordsworth
6. Victorian Period (1832-1901): Alfred Lord Tennyson, Cardinal Newman, Charles Dickens,
George Eliot, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Thomas Hardy
7. Modern Age (1901-1939): E.M. Forster, G.B. Shaw, H.G. Wells, T.S. Eliot, W.B. Yeats and
Virginia Woolf
Name of Author
Edmund Spencer
William Shakespeare
Ben Johnson
Thomas Wyatt
Henry Fielding
John Donne

Title of Author/ Pen Name

Poet of Poets
Bird of Avon
Comedy of Humours
1st Sonneteer in English Literature
Father of English Novel
Poet of Love/Religious
Poet/Metaphysical Poet

John Keats

Poet of Beauty/Poet of Sensuousness

William Wordsworth

Poet of Nature/Poet of Childhood

Revolutionary Poet/Poet of Hope and
Regeneration/Poet of Wind
Rebel Poet
Great master of Verse/Epic Poet
Poet of Supernaturalism/Opium Eater
Mock Heroic Poet
Poet of World Democracy
OHenry
George Eliot
Currer Bell
Ellis Bell

P.B. Shelley
George G. Lord Byron
John Milton
S.T. Coleridge
Alexander Pope
Walt Whitman
William Sidney Porter
Mary Ann Evans
Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte

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Books
The Faerie Queene
As You Like It, Hamlet
Every Man in his Humour
Tom Jones
The Good Morrow, The Flea
Ode to(Nightingale, Autumn, Psyche,
a Grecian Urn)
The Daffodils, My Heart Leaps Up

Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark

Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
Paradise lost, Areopagitica
Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rape of The Lock
A Passage to India

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Name of Author
Edmund Spencer
Homer
George Chapman
Ben Johnson
Thomas Sackville
& Tho Norton

Type of Book
Epic Poem
Poem
Epic Poem
Epic Poem
Humorous
Comedy
Comedy of
Humours

Name of Book
The Faerie Queene
The Shepheardes Calender
Odyssey, Iliad
Odyssey, Iliad

Quotation/Comment
Unfinished Allegorical Narrative

An Humorous Days Mirth

1st Play in Humorous Comedy Style

Play: Tragedy

Gorboduc/Ferrex & Parrex

Translate from Greek to English

Every Man in his Humour

Every Man out of his Humour
1st English Tragedy(1561), Staged
before Queen Elizabeth in 1562

Alls Well That Ends Well

As You Like It

Play:
Comedy

A Mid Summer Nights Dream

Lovers Labours Lost
Lovers Labours Won
The Merchant of Vanice
The Comedy of Errors
Twelfth Night
Measure for Measure
The Marry Wives of Windsor
The Taming of The Shrew
The 2 Gentleman of Verona
The Tempest
The Winters Tale
Much Ado About Nothing
Romeo and Juliet

All the worlds stage and all the men

and women merely players
Sweet are the uses of adversity

Published in 1603,but lost

In sooth I know not why I am sad

Whats in a name? If we call a rose by

any other name would smell as sweet

Antony and Cleopatra

Troilus and Cressida

William
Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

Cowards die many times before their

death
Veni, vidi, vici

Othello
Play:
Tragedy

Hamlet

Macbeth
King Lear
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Cariolanus
The Rape of Lucrece
Narrative
Poem
Poem
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A Lovers Complaint
Venus and Adonis
The Passionate Pilgrim

To be or not to be, that is the question

Frailty thy name is women
Brevity is the soul of wit
When sorrows come, they come not
single spies but in battalions
All the perfumes of Arabia will not
sweeten this little hand
(Unfinished)

Published by William Jaggard

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Christopher
Marlowe

Play
Poem

Doctor Faustus
The Passionate Shepherd to
His Love
Greens Goats-Worth and Wit
The Good Morrow
The Flea
An Anatomy of the World

Robert Greene

Pamphlet

John Donne

Poem

Robert Herrick

Poem

To Daffodils*

Sir John Sackling

Poem

Ballad Upon a Weeding

The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon

Religious
Poem

Essays

Sweet Helen make me immortal with

kiss, Her lipsgive me my soul back

(He Wrote this attacking Shakespeare)

Fair daffodils, we weep to see you haste

away so soon

Wives are young men's mistresses,

companions for middle age, and old men's
nurses.

Knowledge is power
Blank Verse
Epic Poem
John Milton

John Bunyan

Alexander Pope

Alexander Dumas
Deniel Defoe
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson

Henry Fielding

William
Wordsworth

S.T. Coleridge
George G. Lord
Byron

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Paradise lost

Better to reign in hell than to serve in

Heaven
Knowledge forbidden?...........Can it be a
sin? Can it be death?

Paradise Regained
Prose
Areopagitica
Sonnet
On the Blindness
Death is the golden key that opens the places of eternity
Allegorical
Pilgrims Progress
Novel
Narrative
Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may
The Rape of The Lock
Poem
roll;but merit wins the soul
To err is human, to forgive is divine
Poem:
Heroic
An Essay on Criticism
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread
couplets
A little learning is a dangerous thing
Epic Poem
Iliad, Odyssey
Translate to English
Novel
Three Musketeers
Novel
Robinson Crusoe
Novel
Gullivers Travel
Novel
Pamela/The Virtue Rewarded
(1st Modern English Novel)
Novel
Tom Jones
Satirical Poem The Masquerade
Play
The Borderers
The Daffodils*
The Solitary Reaper
The Prelude
Nature never did betray the heart that loved her
Tintern Abbey
Poem
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
The Child is the father of a Man
My Heart Leaps Up
My heart leaps up when I behold
A rainbow in the sky
Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink
The Rime of the Ancient
Poem
He prayeth best who loveth best
Mariner
Childe Harolds Pilgrimage
Poem
Don Juan

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P. B. Shelley

Poem

Ode to the West Wind

The Revolt of Islam
To a Skylark

Poem
John Keats
Poem: Sonnet

Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to Autumn
Ode to Psyche
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Endymion
On 1st Looking into
Chapmans Homer
Sanditon (Unfinished)
Pride and Prejudice
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
A Grammarian Funeral
Oliver Twist
David Copperfield
Das Capital
The Holy Family
Communist Manifesto
Where Angels Fear to
Tread(1st)
Arctic Summer (incomplete)
A Passage to India
The Longest Journey
A Room With a View

Jane Austen

Novel

Robert Browning

Poem

Charles Dickens

Novel

Karl Marx

Works

E.M. Forster

Novel

Winston
Churchill

History Book

History of the 2nd World War

Translate toEn

The Gitanjali (1913 Nobel)

The second Coming
Sailing to Byzantium
When You Are Old
The Waste Land
Four Quartets
Murder in the Cathedral
Doctors Dilemma
Caesar and Cleopatra
Pygmalion
Man and Superman
Arms and the Man
The Good Earth(1938 Nobel)
Fast Wind: West Wind
New Hemisphere(Stopping by
Woods on a Snowy Evening)
The Lesson for Today
Mending Wall
A Passage to India
O Captain! My Captain
Beat! Beat! Drums!
The Mother
Three
My Childhood
In the World

William Butler
Yeats (Nobel
1923)
T.S. Eliot (Nobel
1945)

Poem
Poem
Drama

George Bernard
Shaw (Nobel
1925)

Play

Pearl S. Buck

Novel

Robert Frost
(Pulitzer Prizes)

Poem

Walt Whitman

Poem
Novel

Maxim Gorky

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Autobiography

If winter comes, can spring be far behind

Our sweetest songs are those that tell of
saddest thought

Beauty is truth, truth beauty

A thing of beauty is joy forever

(He got 1953 Nobel for this book)

April is the cruelest month

And miles to go before I sleep, And

miles to go before I sleep.
I had a lovers quarrel with the world
Good fences make good neighbors

Autobiographical Novel

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Ernest
Hemingway
Harriet Strowe

Novel

The Old Man and the Sea

Navel

Jules Verne

Novel

Sir Arthur C.
Doyle
Abul Kalam
Muhiyuddin
Azad

Detective
Novel

Uncle Toms Cabin

Around the World in 80 Days
Journey to the Center of Earth
The Mysterious Island
The Adventure of Sherlock
Homes

Autobiography

India Wins Freedom

Anthony
Mascarenhas
Adolf Hitler
Nelson Mandela
Alice Munro
(Nobel 2013)
Aristotle
Plato
Socrates
Napoleon B.
Rousseau
Matthew Arnold
William
Gladstone

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The Rape of Bangladesh

Bangladesh: A Legacy of
Blood
Autobiography
Mein Kampf
A long walk to Freedom
Autobiography
Conversation with Myself
The Red Dress
Boys and Girls
Short Story
Runaway
Deep Holes
Man is by nature a political animal
Know thyself
The unexamined life is not worth living
Give me a good mother, I will give you a good nation
Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chain
Poetry is the criticism of life
Justice delayed is justice denied
Justice hurried is justice buried

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