English Literature 1. Anglo-Saxon Period (450-1066): 2. Middle English Period (1066-1500): 3. The Renaissance (1500-1660): {Restoration Period refers to 1660. [37 th ]} 3.1 Elizabethan Period (1558-1603): Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, George Chapman, Thomas Norton, Thomas Sackville The University Wits: Christopher Marlowe [35 th ], 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 [37 th ], 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 Title of Author/ Pen Name Books Edmund Spencer Poet of Poets The Faerie Queene William Shakespeare Bird of Avon As You Like It, Hamlet Ben Johnson Comedy of Humours Every Man in his Humour Thomas Wyatt 1 st Sonneteer in English Literature Henry Fielding Father of English Tom Jones John Donne Poet of Love/Religious Poet/Metaphysical Poet John Keats Poet of Beauty/Poet of Sensuousness The Good Morrow, The Flea Ode to(nightingale, Autumn, Psyche, a Grecian Urn) William Wordsworth Poet of Nature[36 th ]/Poet of Childhood The Daffodils, My Heart Leaps Up P.B. Shelley Revolutionary Poet/Poet of Hope and Regeneration/Poet of Wind Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark George G. Lord Byron Rebel Poet Childe Harold s Pilgrimage John Milton Great master of Verse/Epic Poet Paradise lost, Areopagitica S.T. Coleridge Poet of Supernaturalism/Opium Eater Rime of the Ancient Mariner Alexander Pope Mock Heroic Poet The Rape of The Lock Walt Whitman Poet of World Democracy William Sidney Porter O Henry [13 th ] Mary Ann Evans George Eliot Charlotte Bronte Currer Bell Emily Bronte Ellis Bell Name of Author Type of Book Name of Book Quotation/Comment Edmund Spencer Epic The Faerie Queene Unfinished Allegorical Narrative The Shepheardes Calender Homer Epic Odyssey, Iliad Epic Odyssey, Iliad Translate from Greek to English George Chapman Humorous Comedy An Humorous Day s Mirth 1 st in Humorous Comedy Style Ben Johnson Comedy of Every Man in his Humour Humours Every Man out of his Humour Thomas Sackville & Tho Norton : Tragedy Gorboduc/Ferrex & Parrex 1 st English Tragedy(1561), Staged before Queen Elizabeth in 1562 Uzzal Kumar Halder//36 th BCS Administration (Recommended) Page 1
William Shakespeare Christopher Marlowe : Comedy : Tragedy Narrative All s Well That Ends Well All the world s stage and all the men and As You Like It women merely players Sweet are the uses of adversity A Mid Summer Night s Dream [29 th ] Lover s Labour s Lost Lover s Labour s Won Published in 1603,but lost The Merchant of Vanice about a Jew. [36 th ]child The Comedy of Errors Twelfth Night In sooth I know not why I am sad Measure for Measure [36 th ] The Marry Wives of Windsor The Taming of The Shrew The 2 Gentleman of Verona Much Ado About Nothing The Winter s Tale The Tempest Last [37 th,29 th ] Romeo and Juliet Antony and Cleopatra Troilus and Cressida Julius Caesar What s in a name? If we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet Cowards die many times before their death Veni, vidi, vici Julius Caesar was the ruler of Rome about 2000 years ago. [28 th ] Othello about a moor. [36 th ] Hamlet Macbeth King Lear Timon of Athens Titus Andronicus Cariolanus The Rape of Lucrece To be or not to be,that is the question-35 th Frailty thy name is women [36 th ] 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) A Lover s Complaint Venus and Adonis The Passionate Pilgrim Published by William Jaggard Doctor Faustus Sweet Helen make me immortal with kiss, Her lips give me my soul back The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Robert Greene Pamphlet Green s Goats-Worth and Wit (He Wrote this attacking Shakespeare) John Donne The Good Morrow The Flea An Anatomy of the World Robert Herrick To Daffodils* Sir John Sackling Ballad Upon a Weeding Fair daffodils, we weep to see you haste away so soon Uzzal Kumar Halder//36 th BCS Administration (Recommended) Page 2
Francis Bacon John Milton John Bunyan Alexander Pope Religious Knowledge is power Blank Verse Epic The Advancement of Learning Essays Paradise lost Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses. 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 Pilgrim s Progress Narrative Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may The Rape of The Lock roll; but merit wins the soul : To err is human, to forgive is divine Heroic An Essay on Criticism Fools rush in where angels fear to tread couplets A little learning is a dangerous thing Epic Iliad, Odyssey Translate to English Alexander Dumas Three Musketeers Deniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift Gulliver s Travel Samuel Richardson Pamela/The Virtue Rewarded (1 st Modern English ) Henry Fielding William Wordsworth S.T. Coleridge George G. Lord Byron Satirical Tom Jones The Masquerade The Borderers The Daffodils* The Solitary Reaper [36 th ] The Prelude Tintern Abbey I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud My Heart Leaps Up The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Childe Harold s Pilgrimage Don Juan Nature never did betray the heart that loved her The Child is the father of a Man [36 th ] My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky Water, water everywhere, not a drop to drink He prayeth best who loveth best P. B. Shelley John Keats : Sonnet Jane Austen Ode to the West Wind The Revolt of Islam To a Skylark If winter comes, can spring be far behind-28 th Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought Ode to a Nightingale Ode to Autumn Ode to Psyche Ode on a Grecian Urn Beauty is truth, truth beauty. [15 th ] Endymion On 1 st Looking into Chapman s Homer Sanditon (Unfinished) Pride and Prejudice A thing of beauty is joy forever Uzzal Kumar Halder//36 th BCS Administration (Recommended) Page 3
Robert Browning Charles Dickens Karl Marx E.M. Forster Winston Churchill W.B. Yeats (Nobel 1923): Not a ist [36 th ] T.S. Eliot (Nobel 1945) George Bernard Shaw (Nobel 1925) Pearl S. Buck Robert Frost (Pulitzer Prizes) Works The Pied Piper of Hamelin A Grammarian Funeral Oliver Twist A Tale of Two Cities [29 th ] David Copperfield [29 th ] Das Capital The Holy Family Communist Manifesto Where Angels Fear to Tread(1 st ) Arctic Summer (incomplete) A Passage to India [36 th ] The Longest Journey A Room With a View History Book History of the 2 nd World War (He got 1953 Nobel for this book) Translate Eng. Gitanjali (1913 Nobel) [36 th ] The second Coming Sailing to Byzantium When You Are Old The Waste Land Four Quartets Drama Murder in the Cathedral Doctor s Dilemma Caesar and Cleopatra Pygmalion Man and Superman Arms and the Man [35 th ] The Good Earth(1938 Nobel) Fast Wind: West Wind New Hemisphere(Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening) The Lesson for Today Mending Wall April is the cruelest month And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep. I had a lover s quarrel with the world Good fences make good neighbors Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain Beat! Beat! Drums! The Mother Three Maxim Gorky Autobiography My Childhood Autobiographical In the World Ernest Hemingway The Old Man and the Sea Harriet Strowe Navel Uncle Tom s Cabin Jules Verne Sir Arthur C. Doyle Abul Kalam Muhiyuddin Azad Anthony Mascarenhas Detective Autobiography Around the World in 80 Days Journey to the Center of Earth The Mysterious Island The Adventure of Sherlock Homes India Wins Freedom The Rape of Bangladesh Bangladesh: A Legacy of Blood Uzzal Kumar Halder//36 th BCS Administration (Recommended) Page 4
Adolf Hitler Autobiography Mein Kampf Nelson Mandela Autobiography A long walk to Freedom Conversation with Myself The Red Dress Alice Munro Boys and Girls Short Story (Nobel 2013) Runaway Deep Holes Aristotle Man is by nature a political animal. [36 th ] Socrates Know thyself The unexamined life is not worth living Napoleon B. Give me a good mother, I will give you a good nation Rousseau Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chain Matthew Arnold William Gladstone Poetry is the criticism of life Justice delayed is justice denied. [11 th ] Justice hurried is justice buried Uzzal Kumar Halder//36 th BCS Administration (Recommended) Page 5