1. Literary Periods, Movements and History
ENGLISH LITERATURE
Literary Periods, Movements and History

2. English Literature History
From the Conquest to Chaucer
From Chaucer to Spenser
The Age of Shakespeare
The Age of Milton
From the Restoration to the Death of Pope
The Death of Pope to the French Revolution
The French Revolution to the Death of Scott
From the Death of Scott to the Present Time
Appendix

3. American Literature History
Preface
The Colonial Period
The Revolutionary Period
The Era of National Expansion
The Concord Writers
The Cambridge Scholars
Literature in the Cities
Literature Since 1861
Appendix

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

7. MAJOR WRITERS OF THE BEAT GENERATION (USA)
Ginsberg, Allen ( )
Kerouac, Jack ( )
Burroughs, William S. ( )
Corso, Gregory ( )
Ferlinghetti, Lawrence (1919-)
Cassady, Neal ( )
Solomon, Carl ( )
Holmes, John Clellon ( )
Johnson, Joyce (1935-)
Kesey, Ken ( )
Brautigan, Richard ( )
Snyder, Gary (1930-)

8. MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD:
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

9. TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
Sir Thomas More

10. TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
John Skelton

11. TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
TUDOR PERIOD (Humanist Era)
Sir Thomas Wyatt

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

13.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
The Elizabethan Age
Christopher
Marlowe

14.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
The Elizabethan Age
Edmund
Spenser

15.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
The Elizabethan Age
Sir Walter
Raleigh

16.
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
The Elizabethan Age
Ben
Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

22. (Puritan & Protectorate)
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE:
The COMMONWEALTH
PERIOD
(Puritan & Protectorate)
Thomas Hobbes
Andrew Marvell
Neoclassical Period:
The RESTORATION
PERIOD:
JOHN MILTON
JOHN DRYDEN

23.
Neoclassical Period:
The AUGUSTAN AGE:
ALEXANDER
POPE

24. The THE GULLIVER’S TRAVELS
Neoclassical Period:
The AUGUSTAN AGE:
JONATHAN
SWIFT

25. The AGE of SENSIBILITY:
Neoclassical Period:
The AGE of SENSIBILITY:
SAMUEL JOHNSON
HENRY
FIELDING

26. 1785-1870 ROMANTICISM The AGE of REVOLUTION: William Blake
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
G. G. Byron
Percy B. Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen

27. 1785-1870 ROMANTICISM The AGE of REVOLUTION: William Blake
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
G. G. Byron
Percy B. Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen

28. 1785-1870 ROMANTICISM The AGE of REVOLUTION: William Blake
William Wordsworth
S.T. Coleridge
G. G. Byron
Percy B. Shelley
John Keats
Jane Austen

29. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens The Bröntes George Eliot
Robert Browning
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

30. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens Robert Browning
The Bröntes
George Eliot
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

31. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens Robert Browning
The Bröntes
George B. Shaw
George Eliot
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

32. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens Robert Browning
The Bröntes
William B. Yeats
George Eliot
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

33. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens Robert Browning
The Bröntes
George Eliot
D.H. Lawrence
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

34. 1870 - 1914 Victorian Period Charles Dickens Robert Browning
The Bröntes
T. S. Eliot
Lord Tennyson
Thomas Hardy

35. Virginia Woolf James Joyce
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

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

37. 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

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

39. 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's Beloved (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.

40. In 2002, Smith published The Autograph Man. On Beauty (2005)
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 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.

41. ENGLISH & AMERICAN WRITERS TODAY

42. Summary
THE GREAT WRITERS
in ENGLAND

43. 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 ( ). 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.

44. 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.

45. Then Sir Walter Scott of , 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 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’.

46. John Dryden was educated in Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge
John Dryden was educated in Westminster and Trinity College, Cambridge. He wrote satirical and didactic poems. ‘Absalom’ and ‘Achitophel’ in 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 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.

47. 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.