ENGLISH LITERATURE

ENGLISH LITERATURE Literary Periods, Movements and History

English Literature History • From the Conquest to Chaucer 1066-1400 • From Chaucer to Spenser 1400-1599 • The Age of Shakespeare 1564-1616 • The Age of Milton 1608-1674 • From the Restoration to the Death of Pope 1660-1744 • The Death of Pope to the French Revolution 1744-1789 • The French Revolution to the Death of Scott 1789-1832 • From the Death of Scott to the Present Time 1832-1893 • Appendix

American Literature History • Preface • The Colonial Period 1607-1765 • The Revolutionary Period 1765-1815 • The Era of National Expansion 1815-1837 • The Concord Writers 1837-1861 • The Cambridge Scholars 1837-1861 • Literature in the Cities 1837-1861 • Literature Since 1861 • Appendix

Literary Periods • Renaissance Literature • The Enlightenment • Romanticism • Transcendentalism • Victorian Literature • Realism • Naturalism • Modernism • Bloomsbury Group • Existentialism • Beat Generation

MAJOR WRITERS OF THE BEAT GENERATION (USA) Ginsberg, Allen (1926-1997) Kerouac, Jack (1922-1969) Burroughs, William S. (1914-1997) Corso, Gregory (1930-2001) Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919-) Cassady, Neal (1926-1968) Solomon, Carl (1928-1993) Holmes, John Clellon (1926-1988) Johnson, Joyce (1935-) Kesey, Ken (1935-2001) Brautigan, Richard (1935-1984) Snyder, Gary (1930-)

ANGLO-SAXON PERIOD: -BEOWULF MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD: -THE CANTERBURY TALES -THE HOUSE OF FAME THOMAS MALORY: MORTE d’ARTHUR Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era) Sir Thomas More

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era) John Skelton

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era) Sir Thomas Wyatt

THE RENAISANCE PERIOD 1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Elizabethan Age WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Elizabethan Age Christopher Marlowe

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Elizabethan Age Edmund Spenser

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Elizabethan Age Sir Walter Raleigh

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Elizabethan Age Ben Johnson

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Jacobean Age Metaphysical POETS John DONNE

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Jacobean Age Metaphysical POETS Francis BACON

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Jacobean Age Metaphysical POETS Thomas MIDDLETON

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Caroline Age Metaphysical POETS John MILTON

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The Caroline Age Metaphysical POETS John FORD

1500-1660 ENGLISH RENAISSANCE: The COMMONWEALTH PERIOD (Puritan & Protectorate) Thomas Hobbes Andrew Marvell 1660-1700 Neoclassical Period: The RESTORATION PERIOD: JOHN MILTON JOHN DRYDEN

1660-1700 Neoclassical Period: The AUGUSTAN AGE: ALEXANDER POPE

The THEGULLIVER’S TRAVELS 1660-1700 Neoclassical Period: The AUGUSTAN AGE: JONATHAN SWIFT

1700-1800 • Neoclassical Period: • The AGE of SENSIBILITY: • SAMUEL JOHNSON • HENRY • FIELDING

1785-1870 • ROMANTICISM • The AGE of REVOLUTION: • William Blake • William Wordsworth • S.T. Coleridge • G. G. Byron • Percy B. Shelley • John Keats • Jane Austen

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • The Bröntes • George Eliot • Robert Browning • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • Robert Browning • The Bröntes • George Eliot • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • Robert Browning • The Bröntes • George B. Shaw • George Eliot • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • Robert Browning • The Bröntes • William B. Yeats • George Eliot • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • Robert Browning • The Bröntes • George Eliot • D.H. Lawrence • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1870 - 1914 • Victorian Period • Charles Dickens • Robert Browning • The Bröntes • T. S. Eliot • Lord Tennyson • Thomas Hardy

1941, the year in which Irish novelist James Joyce and English novelist Virginia Woolf both died, is sometimes used as a rough boundary for postmodernism's start. Virginia Woolf James Joyce

POST-WAR LITERATURE Post-war developments in literature (such as the Theatre of the Absurd, the Beat Generation, and Magic Realism) Samuel BeckettWilliam S. Burroughs

Underground, anti-conformist youth movement in New York Beat Generation (USA) Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), William S. Burroughs's Naked Lunch (1959) and Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature. Jack Kerouac Allen Ginsberg

MAGIC REALISM Thomas Bernhard, Peter Handke, John Fowles, Angela Carter, John Banville, John Fowles Angela Carter

ENGLISH & AMERICAN WRITERS TODAY Ian McEwan Margaret Atwood Jonathan Franzen (USA) British writer Ian McEwan started winning literary awards with his first book, First Love, Last Rites (1976) and never stopped. Atonement (2002) won several awards and is being made into a movie, and Saturday (2005) won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. The Handmaid's Tale (1985) is perhaps Atwood's best known novel and emblematic of the social criticism The Corrections, his third novel, was selected for Oprah Winfrey's book club in 2001 Philip Roth (USA) David Mitchell Toni Morrison (USA) In his first novel, Ghostwritten (1999), he uses nine narrators to tell the story and 2004's Cloud Atlas is a novel comprised of six interconnected stories The Plot Against America (2005) In Everyman (2006), Roth's 27th novel,what it's like growing old Jewish in America. Toni Morrison'sBeloved (1987) was named best novel of the past 25 years in a 2006 New York Times Book Review survey. The novel won the Pulitzer Prize in 1988, and Toni Morrison, whose name has become synonymous with African American literature, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1993.

John Updike (USA) Kazuo Ishiguro Zadie Smith John Updike's first book of poetry, The Carpentered Hen and Other Tame Creatures, was published in 1958, and his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair, was published in 1959. In 1960, Updike published Rabbit Run, the first of the "Rabbit" novels (Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; Rabbit At Rest; and Rabbit Remembered). The book was an instant success and established Updike's reputation as one of the most significant contemporary American novelists. She wrote her first novel, White Teeth, while still at Cambridge and published it after graduation in 2000. In 2002, Smith published The Autograph Man. On Beauty (2005) In 2009, Smith published Changing My Mind Guildford, Surrey, England In his first novel, An Artist of the Floating World (1986), Ishiguro explored the world of post World War II Japanese society.

ENGLISH & AMERICAN WRITERS TODAY

Summary THE GREAT WRITERS in ENGLAND

The Great Writers of English Literature There are many writers who have served to augment the English Literature. At the early period, it was poets and dramatists. The latter part of the English literature, was illuminated by the great writers of novels and short stories. The oldest western poems were named as ‘Beowulf’ and ‘Seafarer’ by the editors of the History of English books, in 19th century. During the Middle English period, 13th Century poem ‘Owl and the Nightingale’ was written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1345-1400). He wrote many poems in the Middle English period. His best-known work is ‘The Canterbury Tales’ which have kept even today’s literature illuminated.

The Modern English period dawned just after Chaucer, during the Renaissance Period in England. The great poet William Shakespeare (1564 – 1616) enhanced English literature immensely. Even today his poetry was accepted as unbeaten by the whole world. The earliest work as a dramatist dates from 1591 of Henry VI, Henry V and Richard III. Shakespeare’s style has a wider range than that of any other writer, ancient or modern.

Then Sir Walter Scott of 1771-1832, wrote his first poem ‘The Lady of The Last Minstrel’. Also ‘Lady of the Lake’ and ‘Rokeby’ were famous. His most famous novel was ‘Ivanhoe’. He wrote an average of two novels per year. Rudyard Kipling 1865 – 1936 served immensely for English Literature. The poem ‘The Ballad of East and West’ raised him to the front rank. Then he wrote many books –‘The Light That Failed’ in 1901 – ‘Kim’, deep love for English soil made him live in England. The children’s’ stories ‘Just so-stories’ 1902, ‘Puck of Pook’s Hill’ 1906, Rewards and Fairies’ in 1910..He received many honors as 1907 – Nobel Price for Literature. John Milton 1608 – 1674,is a poet who won a remarkable place in English Literature. He wrote poem ‘Paradise Lost’ ‘Lycidas’ ‘Nativity Ode’ etc. The true Miltonic vitality takes various literary forms. It shows itself in the heat and commotion of his pros, in the youthful enthusiasm of the ‘Nativity Ode’.

John Dryden was educated in Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote satirical and didactic poems. ‘Absalom’ and ‘Achitophel’ in 1681. He rattled the reader with joy in ‘Farewell ungrateful Tailor’, ’The Lady’s Song’ or ‘Ah Fading Joy’ and in many more touching the good and bad side of human nature. D.H.Lawrance 1885-1930 was a gifted writer in English Literature. Mostly he wrote of the relationship of men and women. He wrote, ‘The White Peacock’ (1911), ‘The Trespasser’ (1912), ‘Sons and Lovers’ (1913), ‘The Rainbow’ (1915) and many more stories. The novel ‘Lady Chatterley’s Lover(1925) was famous among the people those who watch films as well as readers.

The female writers as Bronte sister, Emily, Anna and Charlotte, wrote the famous books as ‘Wuthering Heights’ ‘Villette’ ‘Agnes Grey’ ‘Tenant of Wild fell Hall’. It is said that no other story is more explicable in fiction than that of the three sisters. The writers looked at so far had represented the major literary forces of English language. There are many more too, worthwhile to mention as great writers in English Literature.

ENGLISH LITERATURE