A BRIEF OUTLINE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

lfric Prose: Hagiographic & Homiletic Wulfstan Introduction: Background, MSS, Prosody, Poems Secular, Beowulf Narrative Religious, Elene Secular, The Wanderer Elegiac Religious, Resignation Allegorical, The Dream of the Rood Wisdom: The Riddles

ANGLO-SAXON Poetry

Background: Continental Influence Early Prose: Didactic, Ancrene Wise King Horn Early Romances Havelock the Dane Romance, Sir Gawain & the Green K. Alliterative Revival Allegorical, Piers Plowman Poetry MEDIEVAL Popular: The Ballads The Chaucerian School Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate William Dunbar Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

Mystery Plays, The Second Shepherds Pageant Drama Morality Plays, Mankind Prose: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte DArthur

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Background: Humanism. Philosophy. Style Wyatt Tudor: Poetry Surrey Sidney, Astrophel and Stella Lyrical Poetry Shakespeare, The Sonnets Allegorical: Spenser, The Faerie Queene Pre-Shakespearian: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus Elizabethan Drama RENAISSANCE Shakespearian Tragedies, Hamlet Comedies, A Midsummer Nights Dream Prose: Poetry The School of Donne Jacobean Drama Revenge Tragedy: Webster, The White Devil Prose: Francis Bacon, Essays City Comedy: Ben Jonson, The Alchemist Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller The School of Jonson Histories, Henry IV Hist. Tragedies, Richard III

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Background: Poetry

Courtly Literature John Milton: 1st Modern Epic: Paradise Lost John Dryden: Satire, Absalom and Achitophel

RESTORATION Wycherley: Comedy of Manners, The Country Wife Drama John Dryden: Tragedy, All for Love Prose John Bunyan: Allegory, The Pilgrims Progress

Background. Classicism and New Literary Forms Poetry: Drama: Augustan: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock Comedy: Sheridan: The School for Scandal Satire: Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Travels 18th-CENTURY The Rise of the Novel: Daniel Defoe: Moll Flanders Prose The Novel Matures Henry Fielding, Tom Jones Experimental Fiction: Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandy Samuel Richardson, Pamela

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Background:

The Poet and the People Forerunner: Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience W. Wordsworth The Founding Fathers S.T. Coleridge Lyrical Ballads Lord Byron The Younger Generation P.B. Shelley John Keats Innov. & Conv.: Jane Austen, Emma

Poetry ROMANTIC

Prose: Development of Fiction Hist. Novel: Walter Scott, Waverley Background. Empire. Industry. Reform. Tennyson & Browning Poetry Pre-Raphaelites: Rossetti VICTORIAN C. Dickens, Bleak House Fiction Emily Bront, Wuthering Heights George Eliot, Middlemarch

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Background. Poetry

Decadence. Gerard Manley Hopkins Thomas Hardy

LATE VICT. & Oscar Wilde EDWARDIAN G.B. Shaw:

Prose Drama, The Importance of Being Earnest Drama of Ideas, Major Barbara Thomas Hardy, Tess of the DUrbervilles George. R. Gissing, New Grub Street George A. Moore, Esther Waters

Prose: The Naturalists

Background.

Modernism & Politics W. B. Yeats T. S. Eliot The Modernists

Poetry The 30s & 40s

Ezra Pound W. H. Auden Dylan Thomas Synge, Playboy of the W. World The Irish Renaissance OCasey, Plough and the Stars

Drama MODERN The English High Comedy: Nol Coward, Blithe Spirit The Revival of Verse Drama: T.S. Eliot, Murder in the C. Henry James, Washington Square Pioneers Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness Modernist James Joyce, Ulysses Central Figures Prose Continuity of Tradition I Lawrence, Sons and Lovers Political Fiction: George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four V. Woolf, To the Lighthouse Forster, A Passage to India

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Background. The New Identity. Philip Larkin The Movement & The Group Ted Hughes Poetry Geoffrey Hill Seamus Heaney Theatre of the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot J. Osborne, Look Back in Anger The Angry Generation Arnold Wesker, Roots Drama H. Pinter, The Homecoming Theatre of the 60s Edward Bond, Saved Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr Sloane Tom Stoppard, Travesties The 70s & 80s CONTEMPORARY Michael Frayn, Noises Off Flann OBrien, At Swim-Two-Birds Experimental Malcolm Lowry, Under the Volcano Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable Kingsley Amis, Lucky Jim Angry Young Men John Wain, Hurry On Down Sillitoe, Saturday Night & Sunday M. Prose Cont. of Tradition II C.P. Snow, The Masters W. Golding, Lord of the Flies Iris Murdoch, Under the Net John Fowles, The French Ls Woman Doris Lessing, Marriages Between Post-Modernist B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates Salman Rushdie, Midnights Children