Chapter 1 Literature of Old and Middle English Periods(450-1485)1.Introduction2.Old English Period:449-10662.1 The Venerable Bede and Caedmon2.2 King Alfred the Great2.3 Beowulf3.Middle English Period:1066-14853.1 Medieval Romance3.2 Folk Ballad3.3 John Wycliffe and William Langland3.3.1 John Wycliffe(1324-1384)3.3.2 William Langland(1330-1388)3.4 Drama in the Middle Ages3.5 Geoffrey Chaucer(1343-1400)3.5.1 Chaucer's Life Background3.5.2 Chaucer's Literary CareerChapter 2 Literature of English Renaissance(1485-1616)1.Introduction2.Thomas More and Francis Bacon2.1 Thomas More(1478-1535)2.2 Francis Bacon(1561-1626)3.Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser3.1 Sir Philip Sidney(1554-1586)3.2 Edmund Spenser(1522-1599)4.Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson4.1 Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593)4.2 Ben Jonson(1572-1637)5.William Shakespeare(1564-1616)5.1 Life and Achievements5.2 Historical Plays5.3 Comedies5.4 Tragedies5.5 Romances5.6 SonnetsChapter 3 Literature of the 17th Century(1616-1688)1.Introduction2.John Milton(1608-1674)3.The Metaphysical Poets3.1 John Donne(1572-1631)3.2 George Herbert(1593-1633)3.3 Andrew Marvell(1621-1678)4.The Restoration Drama5.John Dryden(1631-1700)6.John Bunyan(1628-1688)Chapter 4 Literature of the 18th Century:(1688-1798)1.Introduction2.Alexander Pope(1688-1744)3.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele3.1 Joseph Addison(1672-1719)3.2 Richard Steele(1672-1729)4.Samuel Johnson(1709-1784)5.The Rise of the Novel in England5.1 Daniel Defoe(16597-1731)5.2 Jonathan Swift(1667-1745)5.3 Samuel Richardson(1689-1761)5.4 Henry Fielding(1707-1754)5.5 Tobias George Smollett(1721-1771)5.6 Oliver Goldsmith(1730-1774)5.7 Laurence Sterne(1713-1768)5.8 The Gothic Novel:Horace Walpole(1717-1797)and Ann Radcliffe(1764-1823)6.Pre-Romantic Poetry6.1 Graveyard School Poet:Thomas Gray(1716-1771)6.2 Robert Burns(I759-1796)6.3 William Blake(1757-1827)Chapter 5 Literature of the Romantic Period(1798-1832)1.Introduction2.The First Generation Romantics2.1 William Wordsworth(1770-1850)2.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge(1772-1834)2.3 Robert Southey(1774-1843)3.The Second Generation Romantics3.1 George Gordon Byron(1788-1824)3.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley(1792-1822)3.3 John Keats(1795-1821)4.Novelist of So Manners:Jane Austen(1775-1817)5.Historical Novelist:Walter Scott(1771-1832)6.Familiar Essayist :Charles Lamb(1775-1834)Chapter 6 Literature of the Victorian Age(1832-1900)1.Introduction2.Victorian Novelists2.1 Charles Dickens(1812-1870)2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray(1811-1863)2.3 Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte2.3.1 Charlotte Bronte(1816-1855)2.3.2 Emily Bronte(1818-1848)2.4 George Eliot(1819-1880)2.5 George Meredith, Anthony Trolldpe and Samuel Butler2.5.1 George Meredith(1828-1909)2.5.2 Anthony Trollope(1815-1882)2.5.3 Samuel Butler(1835-1902)2.6 Thomas Hardy(1840-1928)3.Victorian Poets and Dramatists3.1 Alfred Tennyson(1809-1892)3.2 Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning3.2.1 Robert Browning(1812-1889)3.2.2 Elizabeth Barret'Browning(1806-1861)3.3 Matthew Arnold(1822-1888)3.4 Oscar Wilde(1854-1900)4.Victorian Non-fiction Prose4.1 Thomas Carlyle and Thomas Babington Macaulay4.1.1 Thomas Carlyle(1795-1881)4.1.2 Thomas Babington Macaulay(1800-1859)4.2 John Henry Newman and John Stuart Mill4.2.1 John Henry Newman(1801-1890)4.2.2 John Stuart Mill(1806-1873)4.3 John Ruskin and Walter Horatio Pater4.3.1 John Ruskin(1819-1900)4.3.2 Walter Horatio Pater(1839-1894)Chapter 7 Literature of the 20th Century(1900-1945)1.Introduction2.The Edwardians and the'Georgians2.1 Arnold Bennett and Herbert George Wells2.1.1 Arnold Bennett(1867-1931)2.1.2 Herbert George Wells(1866-1946)2.2 John Galsworthy(1867-1933)2.3 Rudyard Kipling(1865-1936)2.4 Joseph Conrad(1857-1924)2.5 Ford Madox Ford(1873-1939)2.6 Edward Morgan Forster(1879-1970)2.7 The War Poets3.The 1920s-Modernism3.1 D.H.Lawrence(1885-1930)3.2 Virginia Woolf(1882-1941)3.3 James Joyce(1882-1941)3.4 William Butler Yeats(1865-1939)3.5 Thomas Stearns Eliot(1888-1965)4.Poetry and Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s4.1 Auden and the Audenic Group4.2 Dylan Marlais Thomas(1914-1953)4.3 Evelyn Waugh(1903-1966)4.4 Aldous Leonard Huxley(1894-1963)4.5 Henry Graham Greene(1904-1991)4.6 Christopher Isherwood(1904-1986)5.Drama of the First Half of the 20th Century5.1 George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950)5.2 John Millington Synge(1871-1909)and Irish Dramatic MOvement5.3 Sean 0'Casey(1880-1964)Chapter 8 Literature of the 20th Century(1945-2000)1.Introduction2.Novelists in the 1940s and 1950s2.I George Orwell(1903-1950)2.2 William Golding(1911-1993)2.3 Samuel Beckett(1906-1989)2.4 Angry Young Men3.Post-modern Experimental Novelists in the 1960s and 1970s3.1 David Lodge(1935-)3.2 B.S.Johnson(1933-1973)3.3 Angus Frank Wilson Johnstone(1913-1991)3.4 Lawrence George Durrell(1912-1990)3.5 Anthony Burgess(1917-1993)3.6 John Fowles(1926-2005)4.Novelists since the 1980s4.1 Martin Louis Amis(1949-)4.2 Graham Swift(1949-)4.3 Julian Barnes(1946-)4.4 Peter Ackroyd(1949-)4.5 Ian McEwan(1948-)5.Some Women Writers5.1 Muriel Spark(1918-2006)5.2 Doris Lessing(1919-)5.3 Iris Murdoch(1919-1999)5.4 A.S.Byatt(1936-)5.5 Margaret Drabble(1939-)6.Some Ethnic Writers6.1 V.S, Naipaul(1932-)6.2 Salman Rushdie(1947-)6.3 Kazuo Ishiguro(1954-)7.Contemporary Poets7.1 Philip Larkin(1922-1985)7.2 Ted Hughes(1930-1998)7.3 Seamus Heaney(1939-)8.Contemporary Drama8.1 John Osborne(1929-1994)8.2 Harold Pinter(1930-2008)8.3 Tom Stoppard(1937-)8.4 Peter Shaffer(1926-)8.5 Political Drama