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
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
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
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
Thomas Lodge
Geroge Peele
Thomas Kyd
William Shakespeare
Essayist
Francis Bacon
Richard Hooker
Walter Raleigh
Richard Hakluyt
Samuel Purchas
John Foxe
William Camden
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
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
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
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
Poets
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
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
Essayist
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
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