1. LiteratureLiterature Chapter Six

2. Old & Middle English Period(450-1500) Old English –(5th century — 1066) –Spoken by: Anglo-Saxons –Beowulf Middle English –(1066 — 15th century) –Spoken by: Normans and Anglo-Saxons –The Canterbury Tales By Geoffrey Chaucer

3. Beowulf Author: Genre: Plot: Theme: Don ’ t know Epic/folk legend Swedish warrior killing monsters to save his country and people strength, courage, and loyalty

4. The Canterbury Tales Author Genre Plot Geoffrey Chaucer Collection of stories Pilgrims entertaining themselves on their way to the Christian Church

5. The Renaissance (1500 — 1660) Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writers: Admiration of the Greek and Latin classic works William Shakespeare

6. Born: 23 April 1564 Birthplace: Stratford-upon-Avon, England Died: 23 April 1616 Best Known As: The famed author of Romeo and Juliet

7. Hamlet Author Genre Plot Theme William Shakespeare Drama how Prince Hamlet exacts revenge on his uncle Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father, the King, and then taken the throne and married Hamlet's mother. treachery, revenge, and moral integrity

8. The Neo-Classical Period(1660 — 1785) Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writers: Concerned with the tremendous social upheavals of the time; catering to the rising bourgeoisie; classicism; satire John Milton; Alexander Pope; Jonathan Swift; Daniel Defoe

9. John Milton Born: 1608 Died: 1674 Best known as: author of Paradise Lost

10. Paradise Lost Author Genre Plot Theme John Milton Epic The poem concerns the Christian story of the Fall of Man; the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and their expulsion from the Garden of Eden. Revolt against God ’ s authority

11. Alexander Pope Born: 1688 Died: 1744 Best known as: greatest English poet of the classical school; author of An Essay on Criticism

12. Jonathan Swift Born: 1667 Died: 1745 Best known as: first prose satirist in English language; author of Gulliver ’ s Travels

13. Gulliver ’ s Travels Author Genre Plot Theme Jonathan Swift Prose Gulliver ’ s four travels Satirical description of vice, folly and mere weakness of mankind

14. Daniel Defoe Born: 1660 Died: 1731 Best known as: author of Robinson Crusoe

15. Robinson Crusoe Author Genre Plot Theme Daniel Dafoe Novel Shipwreck and solitary survival Glorified human labor; representation of English bourgeoisie

16. The Romantic Period(1785 — 1830) Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writers: Concerned with imagination and feeling than with reason and intellect William Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Byron Percy Bysshe Shelley John Keats

17. Samuel Taylor Coleridge Born: 21 October 1772 Birthplace: Devonshire, England Died: 25 July 1834 Best Known As: Lake Poet; author of The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

18. William Wordsworth Born: 7 April, 1770 Died: 23 April, 1850 Best known as: Lake Poet; author of “ Declaration of Independence ” in romantic poetry

19. Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron) Born: 22 January 1788 Birth place: London, England Died: 19 April 1824, Messolonghi, Greece Best known as: author of Don Juan

20. Percy Bysshe Shelley Born: 4 August 1792 Birth place: Horsham, England Died: 8 July 1822 Livorno, Italy Best known as: author of Ode to West Wind

21. John Keats Born: 31 October 1795 Birth Place: London, England Died: 23 February 1821, Rome, Papal States Best known as: author of Ode to a Nightingale

22. The Victorian Period (1832 — 1901) Critical Realism Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writers: Critical Realism; criticizing the capitalist system from a democratic viewpoint Charles Dickens Jane Austen Bronte sisters Thomas Hardy

23. Charles Dickens Born: 7 February 1812 Birth place: Portsmouth, England Died: 9 June 1870, Kent, England Best known as: author of Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, A Tale of Two Cites and David Copperfield

24. Oliver Twist Author Genre Plot Theme Charles Dickens Novel Oliver Twist, born an orphan, spends the first nine years of his life in a badly run home for young and then is apprenticed to a local undertaker and a career criminal who trains orphan boys to pick pockets for him. After a series of struggling, Oliver is adopted by a kind gentleman and lives blissfully in the countryside. The Failure of Charity; Purity in a Corrupt City

25. Jane Austen Born: 16 December 1775 Died: 18 July 1817 Best known as: author of Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice

26. Invention of exciting adventures and fascinating stories Robert Louis Stevenson The Victorian Period (1832 — 1901) Neo-Romanticism Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writer:

27. Art for art ’ s sake Oscar Wilde The Victorian Period (1832 — 1901) Aestheticism Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writer:

28. Oscar Wilde Born: 16 October 1854; Dublin, Ireland Died: 30 November 1900; Paris, France Best known as: author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

29. The Modern Period (1914-1945) Characteristics of this period: Symbolic writers: forms of expression; contents; structure; point of view Joseph Conrad Virginia Woolf James Joyce William Butler Yeats George Bernard Shaw

30. Joseph Conrad Born: 3 December 1857; Poland Died: 3 August 1924 Best known as: forerunner of Modernism; author of The Heart of Darkness

31. Virginia Woolf Born: 25 January 1882 Died: 28 March 1941 Best known as: writer of the stream of consciousness

32. George Bernard Shaw Born: 26 July 1856 Died: 2 November 1950 Best known as: author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize and Oscar Award winner

33. Samuel Beckett Born: 13 April 1906 Died: 22 December 1989 Best known as: author of “ Absurd Theater ” ; Nobel Prize winner Waiting for Godot: Two men, Vladimir and Estragon, meet near a tree. They converse on various topics and reveal that they are waiting there for a man named Godot.

34. Harold Pinter Born: 10 October London, England Died: 24 December 2008 Best known as: Playwright and political activist; author of The Birthday Party and The Homecoming