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Chapter 1 Literature of Old and Middle English Periods (450--1485)

 1.Introduction

 2.Old English Period: 449--1066

 2.1 The Venerable Bede and Caedmon

 2.2 King Alfred the Great

 2.3 Beowulf

 3.Middle English Period: 1066--1485

 3.1 Medieval Romance

 3.2 Folk Ballad

 3.3 John Wycliffe and William Langland

 3.3.1 John Wycliffe (1324--1384)

 3.3.2 William Langland (1330--1388)

 3.4 Drama in the Middle Ages

 3.5 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343--1400)

 3.5.1 Chaucer's Life Background

 3.5.2 Chaucer's Literary Career

Chapter 2 Literature of English Renaissance ( 1485--1616}

 1.Introduction

 2.Thomas More and Francis Bacon

 2.1 Thomas More (1478--1535)

 2.2 Francis Bacon (1561--1626)

 3.Sir Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser

 3.1 Sir Philip Sidney (1554--1586)

 3.2 Edmund Spenser (1522--1599)

 4.Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson

 4.1 Christopher Marlowe (1564--1593)

 4.2 Ben Jonson (1572--1637)

 5.William Shakespeare (1564--1616)

 5.1 Life and Achievements

 5.2 Historical Plays

 5.3 Comedies

 5.4 Tragedies

 5.5 Romances

 5.6 Sonnets

Chapter 3 Literature of the 17th Century (1616--1688)

 1.Introduction

 2.John Milton (1608--1674)

 3.The Metaphysical Poets

 3.1 John Donne (1572--1631)

 3.2 George Herbert (1593--1633)

 3.3 Andrew Marvell (1621--1678)

 4.The Restoration Drama

 5.John Dryden (1631--1700)

 6.John Bunyan (1628--1688)

Chapter 4 Literature of the 18th Century: (1688--1798)

 1.Introduction

 2.Alexander Pope (1688--1744)

 3.Joseph Addison and Richard Steele

 3.1 Joseph Addison (1672--1719)

 3.2 Richard Steele (1672--1729)

 4.Samuel Johnson (1709--1784)

 5.The Rise of the Novel in England

 5.1 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 Poetry

 6.1 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.Introduction

 2.The First Generation Romantics

 2.1 William Wordsworth (1770--1850)

 2.2 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772--1834)

 2.3 Robert Southey (1774--1843)

 3.The Second Generation Romantics

 3.1 George Gordon Byron (1788--1824)

 3.2 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792--1822)

 3.3 John Keats (1795--1821)

 4.Novelist of Social Manners: Jane Austen (1775--1817)

 5.Historical Novelist: Walter Scott (1771--1832)

 6.Familiar Essayist : Charles Lamb (I775--1834)

Chapter 6 Literature of the Victorian Age (1832--1900)

 1.Introduction

 2.Victorian Novelists

 2.1 Charles Dickens (18t2--!870)

 2.2 William Makepeace Thackeray (1811--1863)

 2.3 Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte

 2.3.1 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 Butler

 2.5.1 George Meredith (1828--1909)

 2.5.2 Anthony Trollope (1815--1882)

 2.5.3 Samuel Butler (1835--1902)

 2.6 Thomas Hardy (1"840--1928)

 3.Victorian Poets and Dramatists

 3.1 Alfred Tennyson (1809--1892)

 3.2 Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning

 3.2.1 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 Prose

 4.1 Thomas Carlyle and Thomas Babington Macaulay

 4.1.1 Thomas Carlyle (1795--1881)

 4.1.2 Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800--1859)

 4.2 John Henry Newman and John Stuart Mill

 4.2.1 John Henry Newman (1801--1890)

 4.2.2 John Stuart Mill (1806--1873)

 4.3 John Ruskin and Walter Horatio Pater

 4.3.1 John Ruskin (1819--1900)

 4.3.2 Walter Horatio Pater (1839--1894)

Chapter 7 Literature of the 20th Century (]900--1945)

 1.Introduction

 2.The Edwardians and the'Georgians

 2.1 Arnold Bennett and Herbert George Wells

 2.1.1 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 F0rster (1879--1970)

 2.7 The War Poets

 3.The 1920s- Modernism

 3.1 D.H.Lawrence (1885--1930)

 3.2 Virginia Woolf (1882--1941)

 3.3 James Joyce (1882--1941)

 3.4 William Butler Yeats (]865--1939)

 3.5 Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888--1965)

 4.Poetry and Fiction of the 1930s and 1940s

 4.1 Auden and the Audenic Group

 4.2 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 Century

 5.1 George Bernard Shaw (1856--1950)

 5.2 John Millington Synge (1871--1909) and Irish Dramatic MOvement

 5.3 Sean 0'Casey (1880--1964)

Chapter 8 Literature of the 20th Century (194S--2000)

 1.Introduction

 2.Novelists in the 1940s and 1950s

 2.I George Orwell (1903--1950)

 2.2 William Golding (1911--1993)

 2.3 Samuel Beckett (1906--1989)

 2.4 Angry Young Men

 3.Post-modern Experimental Novelists in the 1960s and 1970s

 3.i 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 1980s

 4.1 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 Writers

 5.1 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 Writers

 6.1 V.S, Naipaul (1932--)

 6.2 Salman Rushdie (1947--)

 6.3 Kazuo Ishiguro (1954--)

 7.Contemporary Poets

 7.1 Philip Larkin (1922--1985)

 7.2 Ted Hughes (1930--1998)

 7.3 Seamus Heaney (1939--)

 8.Contemporary Drama

 8.1 John Osborne (1929--1994)

 8.2 Harold Pinter (1930--2008)

 8.3 Tom Stoppard (1937--)

 8.4 Peter Shaffer (1926--)

 8.5 Political Drama