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Chapter 1 – Old & Middle English

Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Period : Historical Background, Theme, Style

Important Works of Anglo- Saxon Period

Introduction to Anglo Norman Literature- Historical Background, Theme, Style

Important Works of Anglo- Norman Period

Chapter 2 – Age of Chaucer

Introduction to Chaucerian Age- Historical Background, Theme, Style

Geoffery Chaucer

William Langland

John Wycliffe

John Mandeville

John Gower

Thomas Hoccleve

John Lydgate

Chapter 3 – Age Revival

Introduction to Age of Revival- Historical Background, Theme, Style

Erasmus

Thomas More

William Tyndale

Richard Tottel

Thomas Wyatt

Henry Howard

Roger Asham

Thomas Elyot

Thomas Malory

William Dunbar

Chapter 4 – Elizabethan Age

Introduction to Elizabethan Age- Historical Background, Theme, Style

Popular Bible Translations

Poets

Edmund Spenser

Thomas Sackville

Pilip Sidney

Maichael Drayton

Dramatists

History & Background of English Theatre

Early Elizabethan Plays

Christpher Marlowe

Robert Greene

Thomas Nashe

John Lyly

Thomas Lodge

Geroge Peele

Thomas Kyd

William Shakespeare

Essayist

Francis Bacon

Richard Hooker

Walter Raleigh

Richard Hakluyt

Samuel Purchas

John Foxe

William Camden

John Knox

Chapter 5 – Jacobean & Caroline Age

Introduction to Jacobean & Caroline Age of Revival-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Dramatists

Ben Jonson

George Chapman

Beaumont & Fletcher

John Webster

Thomas Middleton

Thomas Heywood

Thomas Dekker

Philip Massinger

John Ford

James Shirley

John Marston

Poets

John Donne

Richard Crashaw

Henry Vaughan

George Herbert

Andrew Marvell

Abraham Cowley

Thomas Carew

John Suckling

Richard Lovelace

Robert Herrick

Chapter 6 – Civil War & Interregnum

Introduction to Civil War & Interregnum Period- History & Background

John Milton

John Bunyan

Robert Burton

Thomas Browne

Jeremy Taylor

Richard Baxter

Izaak Walton

Thomas fuller

Chapter 7 – Restoration Age

Introduction to Restoration Age-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Prose Writers

John Dryden

Samuel Butler

John Evelyn

Samuel Pepys

Jermy Collier

Willam Dampier

John Wilmot

Thomas Rymer

Dramatists

George Etherege

William Wycherley

Geroge Farquhar

John Vanbrugh

Colley Cibber

Thomas Otway

William Congreve

Aphra Behn

John Gay

Chapter 8 – Enlightenment Age

Introduction to Age of Enlightenment- Historical Background, Theme, Style

Prose Writers

Alexander Pope

Jonathan Swift

Richard Steele

Joseph Addison

Samuel Johnson

Novelists

Daniel Defoe

Henry Fielding

Samuel Richardson

Tobias Smollett

Laurence Sterne

Charlotte Lennox

Poets

Thomas Gray
Oliver Goldsmith
William Cowper
Robert Burns
William Blake
James Thomson
William Collins
George Crabbe
James Macpherson
Thomas Chatterton
Thomas Percy
John Stagg

Chapter 9 – Romantic Age

Introduction to Romantic Age-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Poets

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Robert Southey

Lord Byron

P.B. Shelley

John Keats

John Clare

Prose Writers

William Hazlitt

Leigh Hunt

Charles Lamb

Thomas De Quincey

Novelists

Walter Scott
Jane Austen
Walter Savage Landor
Mary Shelley
Ann Radcliffe
Horace Walpole
Fanny Burney
William Godwin
Richard Sheridan

Chapter 10 – Victorian Age

Introduction to Victorian Age-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Poets

Alfred Lord Tennyson

Robert Browning

Elizabeth Barret Browning

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

William Morris

A.C. Swinburne

G. M. Hopkins

Edward Fitzgerald

Novelists

Charles Dickens

William Makepeace Thackeray

George Eliot

Charles Reade

Anthony Trollope

Charlotte Bronte
Emily Bronte
Anne Bronte
Bulwer Lyton
Charles Kingsley
Elizabeth Gaskell
R. D. Blackmore
George Meredith
Thomas Hardy
R.L Stevenson
Lewis Carroll
William Wilkie Collins
Arthur Conan Doyle

Essayist

Thomas Babington Macaulay
Thomas Carlyle
John Ruskin
Matthew Arnold
J. H. Newman
Walter Pater
Oscar Wilde

Chapter 11 – Modern Age

Introduction to Modern Age-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Novelists

Joseph Conrad

George Orwell

James Joyce

Virginia Woolf

D.H. Lawrence

Aldous Huxley

Graham Greene

E.M. Foster

Ford Madox Ford

Arnold Bennett

H.G. Wells

J.M. Barrie

Rudyard Kipling

Samuel Butler

Dramatists

John Galsworthy

G.B Shaw

T.S Eliot

Sean O’Casey

J.M Synge

Poets

W.H. Auden
W.B. Yeats
Siegfried Sassoon
Wilfred Owen
Rupert Brooke
Robert Graves
Dylan Thomas
John Masefield
Alfred Noyes
A.E. Housman

Chapter 12 – Post Modern Age

Introduction to Post Modern Age-Historical Background, Theme, Style

Novelists

Agatha Christe (1890 –1976)

Jeanette Winterson

J.R.R. Tolkien

Bram Stoker

Christopher Isherwood

Betrand Russell

J.M. Priestley

Somerset Maugham

Doris Lessing

J.K Rowling

William Goldings

Ian McEwan

Lawrence Durrell

Graham Swift

Martin Amiss

Kingsley Amiss

Iris Murdoch

John Fowles

Muriel Spark

A.S Byatt

Malcolm Bradbury

Angela Carter

Patrick Kavanagh

J.P. Donleavy

Anthony Powell

David Storey

Joyce Cary

Angus Wilson

Anthony Burges

Peter Ackroyd

Dramatists

Alan Bennett

Noel Coward

Christopher Fry

Harold Pinter

Samuel Beckett

Edward Bond

Tom Stoppard

Terence Rattigan

Arnold Wesker

John Osborne

Caryl Churchill

Joe Orton

Poets

Seamus Heaney
Ted Hughes
Philip Larkin
Roy Fuller
Thom Gunn
J.H Prynne
Geoffrey Hill