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 7th century-11th century (1066)  Old English/ Dark Ages  1066-Battle of Hastings  Pagan/ Christian  Pagan: Beowulf, riddles, The Seafarer  Christian: The Dream of the Rood, Caedmon’s Hymn  Alliteration, mixture of different cultures and religions

  Holy crusades, church, pilgrimage  Courtly love, Arthurian legends  Ballads ( Bonny Barbara Allan )  Prose romance ( Sir Gawain and the Green Knight )  Dream-vision convention ( The Pearl, The Visions of Pierce Plowman )  The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer  Drama (mystery plays and morality plays)

 15th century-17th century  Revival of ancient motifs, Latin and Greek  vita activa/vita contemplativa  docere et delectare  Poetry: sir Thomas Wyatt (sonnets) Edmund Spenser ( The Faerie Queene )  University Wits (Christopher Marlowe – Hero and Leander )

 Prose: sir Francis Bacon sir Thomas Moore ( Utopia ) sir Walter Raleigh ( The Discovery of Guiana ) Robert Greene, Robert Burton, the Bible  William Shakespeare ( )  Metaphysical poetry (John Donne, George Herbert, Andrew Marvell)  Drama

  Charles II, growth of cities, the rise of novel and journalism, literary criticism  John Milton ( Paradise Lost )  John Bunyan ( The Pilgrim’s Progress )  John Wilmot, John Dryden, Alexander Pope  Restoration comedy  Develpment of novel (picaresque, novels of incident, Samuel Richardson, Daniel Defoe).

  New idea of poetry  First generation of romantic poets William Blake ( The Lamb, The Tiger ) William Wordsworth ( The Prelude, Tintern Abbey ) Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( The Rime of the Ancient Mariner ) Lyrical Ballads- preface

 Second generation of romantic poets John Keats ( Endymion, Ode to a Nightingale, Ode on a Grecian Urn ) Percy B. Shelley ( The necessity of Atheism, Ode to the West Wind ) George Byron ( Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage, Giaour, Don Juan )  Prose  Walter Scott ( Ivanhoe, Rob Roy )  Mary Shelley ( Frankenstein )  Jane Austen ( Emma, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility )

  Queen Victoria, Industrial Revolution  Thinkers (Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Thomas Carlyle, Charles Darwin, Samuel Butler, John Henry Newman, Jeremy Bentham, John Stuart Mill, Walter Pater)  Poetry: Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (John Millais, William Morris, Wiliam Holman Hunt, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, William Michael Rossetti)

 Early victorian novel (Charles Dickens, William Makepeace Thackeray, Emily Brontë, Mary Ann Evans)  Late Victorian novel (Oscar Wilde, Bram Stoker, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, Joseph Conrad, John Galsworthy)

 1901-early 20th century/late 20th century  Stream of consciousness  Prose: Herbert George Wells ( The War of the Worlds, The Time Machine ) Rudyard Kipling ( The Jungle Book ) John Galsworthy, Joseph Conrad Edward Morgan Forster ( Howard’s End, A Passage to India ) Virginia Woolf ( Mrs. Dalloway ) James Joyce ( A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses ) David Herbert Lawrence ( Sons and Lovers, Women in Love ) Aldous Huxley ( Brave New World ) Agatha Christie

 George Orwell ( Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four )  Graham Greene ( Brighton Rock )  William Golding ( Lord of the Flies )  Iris Murdoch ( Under the Net, Black Prince )  Doris Lessing ( The Grass Is Singing, Children of Violence )  Muriel Spark ( Memento Mori )  Anthony Burgess ( A Clockwork Orange )  John Fowles ( The French Lieutenant’s Woman )  J. R. R Tolkien ( The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings )

 Salman Rushdie ( Midnight’s Children, The Satanic Verses )  Kazuo Ishiguro ( The Remains of the Day )  Angela Carter ( Nights at the Circus )

 Drama Oscar Wilde ( The Importance of Being Earnest ) Henrik Ibsen George Bernard Shaw ( Pygmalion )  Drama-theatre of absurd John Osborne ( Look Back in Anger ) Samuel Beckett ( Waiting for Godot ) Harold Pinter ( The Caretaker ) Tom Stoppard ( Rosencrantz and Guilderstern Are Dead )  Poetry William Butler Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Stearns Eliot

 Late 20th century  Deconstruction, post-structuralism, metafiction, intertextuality, complex narration, fragmentation, unreliable narrator, magic realism