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ENGLISH LITERATURE (Study Guide - Articles - Literary Works) Study Guide English Literature Articles PERIODS (Postclassical - E Modern - 19th Century - 20th Century) GENRES (Poetry - Drama - Fiction - Life Writing - Essays)
Literary Works BEOWULF (600-900) Caedmon CAEDMON'S HYMN (658-680)Beowulf (600-900) (conjectural) Venerable Bede (672-735) ECCLESIASTICAL HISTYORY OF THE ENGLISH PEOPLE (731)DREAM OF ROOD (700-775) Geoffrey of Monmouth (1015-1155) HISTORY OF THE KINGS OF BRITAIN (1136)Layamon (1200-1290) BRUT / The Chronicle of Britain (1190)Julian of Norwich (1342-1416) BOOK OF SHOWINGS Langland, William (1332-1386) PIERS PLOWMAN(1362-1393)Chaucer, Geoffrey (1343-1400) BOOK OF THE DUCHESS(1370)-CANTERBURY TALES (1387)-LEGEND OF GOOD WOMEN (13801)-TROILUS AND CRISEYDE(1382)Pearl-Poet (1349- ) SIR GAWAIN AND THE GREEN KNIGHT (ca. 1375-1400)Kempe, Margery (c. 1373 –1438) Anonymous (Mid-fifteenth century) WAKEFIELD SECOND SHEPHARD'S PLAY Malory, Sir Thomas (1415-1471) MORTE D’ARTHUR, LE (1485)Skelton, John (1460-1529) POETRY OF SKELTON(1568)More, Thomas (1478-1535) UTOPIA(1516)Bale, John (1495-1563) KING JOHANMaster, Wakefield SECOND SHEPHERDS’ PLAY (FİFTEENTH CENTURY)Udall, Nicholas(1504-1556) RALPH ROISTER DOISTER(1552)Norton, Thomas (1532-1584) and Sackville, Thomas (1536 –1608) GORBODUC (1561)Ralegh, Sir Walter(1552-1618) POEMS (1813)Spenser, Edmund (1552-1599) SHEPHEARDES CALENDER (1579)-FAERIE QUEENE (1590-1596)-MOTHER HUBBERDS TALE(1591)-AMORETTI(1595)Hakluyt, Richard(1553-1616) HAKLUYT’S VOYAGES (1589)Lyly, John(1553-1606) EUPHUES, THE ANATOMY OF WIT(1578)-ENDYMION, THE MAN IN THE MOON(1588)Sidney, Sir Philip(1554-159986) ARCADIA (1590)-ASTROPHEL AND STELLA (1591)-DEFENCE OF POESIE (1595)Peele, George(1556-1596) OLD WIVES’ TALE (1591-1594)Kyd, Thomas(1558-1594) SPANISH TRAGEDY (1585-1589)Chapman, George(1559-1634) ALL FOOLS(1604)-BUSSY D’AMBOIS(1604)-EASTWARD HO(1605)-REVENGE OF BUSSY D’AMBOIS (1610)Bacon, Francis(1561-1626) ESSAYS(1597)-NEW ATLANTIS(1627)Daniel, Samuel(1563-1619) DELIA (1592)Drayton, Michael(1563-1631) POLY-OLBION(1612)Marlowe, Christopher(1564-1593) TAMBURLAINE THE GREAT(1587)-DOCTOR FAUSTUS(1588)-JEW OF MALTA (1589)-EDWARD II(1592)-Shakespeare, William(1564-1616) HENRY VI, PART II(1590)-HENRY VI, PART III (1590)-COMEDY OF ERRORS(1592)-HENRY VI, PART I(1592)-RICHARD III(1592)- TAMING OF THE SHREW(1593)-VENUS AND ADONIS(1593)-LOVE’S LABOUR’S LOST(1594)-RAPE OF LUCRECE(1594)- TITUS ANDRONICUS(1594)-TWO GENTLEMEN OF VERONA(1594)-MIDSUMMER NIGHT’S DREAM, A(1595)- RICHARD II(1595)-ROMEO AND JULIET(1595)-KING JOHN(1596)-MERCHANT OF VENICE(1596)-HENRY IV, PART I(1597)- MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR(1597)-HENRY IV, PART II(1598)-MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING(1598)-AS YOU LIKE IT (1599)- JULIUS CAESAR(1599)-HAMLET, PRINCE OF DENMARK (1600)-TWELFTH NIGHT(1600)-TROILUS AND CRESSIDA(1601)- ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL(1602)-MEASURE FOR MEASURE(1604)-OTHELLO(1604)-KING LEAR(1605)- ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA(1606)-MACBETH(1606)-CORIOLANUS(1607)-PERICLES, PRINCE OF TYRE (1607)- TIMON OF ATHENS(1607)-CYMBELINE(1609-1610)-SONNETS OF SHAKESPEARE(1609)-WINTER’S TALE(1610-1611)- TEMPEST(1611)-TWO NOBLE KINSMEN(1612)-HENRY VIII(1613)Heywood, thomas (1570-1641) A MAIDENHOOD WELL LOST (1634)Donne, John(1572-1631) HOLY SONNETS(1633)Dekker, Thomas (1572-1632)-Rowley, William (1585-1626)-Ford, John (1586-1639) THE WITCH OF EDMONTON Jonson, Ben(1572-1637) EVERY MAN IN HIS HUMOUR (1598)-VOLPONE(1605)-EPICOENE / SILENT WOMAN (1609)-ALCHEMIST(1610)- Webster, John (1576-1632) THE DUCHESS OF MALFI Fletcher, John (1579-1625) BONDUCA Middleton, Thomas (1580-1627) A CHASTE MAID IN CHEAPSIDE (1613)-CHANGELING (1622) Massinger, Philip (1583-1640) BONDMAN (1624)-A NEW WAY TO PAY OLD DEBTS (1625)-DUKE OF MILAN (1625)Beaumont, Francis (1584-1616) KNIGHT OF THE BURNING POSTLE (1607)Ford, John (1586-1639) TIS PITY SHE'S A WHORE (1626) Hobbes, Thomas(1588-1679) LEVIATHAN(1651)Herrick, Robert(1591-1674) HESPERIDES(1648)Milton, John(1608-1674) COMUS(1634)-LYCIDAS(1638)-AREOPAGITICA(1644)-SAMSON AGONISTES (1671)Bunyan,John(1628-1688) GRACE ABOUNDING TO THE CHIEF OF SINNERS(1666)-PILGRIM' S PROGRESS(1678)Dryden, John(1631-1700) OF DRAMATIC POESIE (1668)-MARRIAGE Â LA MODE(1672)-ALL FOR LOVE(1677)-SPANISH FRIAR(1680)Locke, John(1632-1704) ESSAY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, AN(1690)-TWO TREATISES OF GOVERNMENT(1690)Pepys, Samuel(1633-1703) DIARY(1825) Etherege, George (1635-1692) MAN OF MODE (1676)Behn, Aphra(1640-1689) ROVER / BANISHED CAVALIERS (1677)-OROONOKO(1688)Wycherley, William(1641-1716) LOVE IN A WOOD(1671)-COUNTRY WIFE(1675)-PLAIN-DEALER(1676)Newton, Sir Isaac(1643-1727) PRINCIPIA(1687)Defoe, Daniel(1660-1731) ROBINSON CRUSOE(1719)-JOURNAL OF THE PLAGUE YEAR, A(1722)-MOLL FLANDERS(1722)-ROXANA(1724)Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745) TALE OF A TUB, A(1704)-GULLIVER’S TRAVELS(1726)-MODEST PROPOSAL, A(1729)Congreve, William (1670-1729) LOVE FOR LOVE (1695)-WAY OF THE WORLD (1700) Addison, Joseph(1672-1719) SPECTATOR (1711)-HOMEWARD(1894) Steele, Sir Richard(1672-1729) SPECTATOR (1711-1714)-CONSCIOUS LOVERS(1722) Farquhar, George (1677-1707) RECRUITING OFFICER (1706)Gay, John(1685-1732) BEGGAR’S OPERA(1728)Pope, Alexander(1688-1744) ESSAY ON CRITICISM, AN(1711)-RAPE OF THE LOCK (1712)-DUNCIAD (1728-1743)-ESSAY ON MAN, AN(1733-1734)Richardson, Samuel(1689-1761) PAMELA(1740)-CLARISSA(1747-1749)-SIR CHARLES GRANDISON(1753-1754) Chesterfield, Lord(1694-1773) LETTERS TO HIS SON(1774)Fielding, Henry(1707-1754) TRAGEDY OF TRAJEDIES(1731)-JOSEPH ANDREWS(1742)-JONATHON WILD(1743)-TOM JONES(1749)-AMELIA(1751)Johnson, Samuel(1709-1784) RASSELAS(1759)-PREFACE TO SHAKESPEARE(1765)-LIVES OF THE POETS (1779-1781)Hume, David(1711-1776) ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING, AN(1748)Gray, Thomas(1716-1771) ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD(1751)Walpole, Horace(1717-1797) CASTLE OF OTRANTO (1765)Smollett, Tobias(1721-1771) ADVENTURES OF RODERICK RANDOM(1748)-ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE(1751)-Smith, Adam(1723-1790) WEALTH OF NATIONS(1776)Goldsmith, Oliver(1728-1774) VICAR OF WAKEFIELD(1766)-SHE STOOPS TO CONQUER(1773)Gibbon, Edward(1737-1794) HıSTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE(1776-1788)Boswell, James (1740-1795) JOURNAL OF A TOUR TO THE HEBRIDES WITH SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.(1785)-LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON, LL.D.(1791)Equiano, Olaudah (1745-1797)Burney, Fanny(1752-1840) EVELINA(1778)-CECILIA(1782)Blake, William (1757-1827) SONGS OF INNOCEMCE AND OF EXPERIENCEBurns, Robert(1759-1796) POEMS, CHIEFLY IN THE SCOTTISH DIALECT(1786)Wollstonecraft, Mary(1759-1797) VINDICATION OF THE RIGHTS OF WOMAN, WITH STRICTURES ON POLITICAL AND MORAL SUBJECTS, A(1792)Radcliffe, Ann(1764-1823) ROMANCE OF THE FOREST(1791)-MYSTERIES OF UDOLPHO(1794)-ITALIAN(1797)Wordsworth, William(1770-1850) LYRICAL BALLADS(1798)-ODE(1807)-PRELUDE (1850)Brown, Charles Brockden(1771-1810) WIELAND(1798)Scott, Sir Walter(1771-1832) LAY OF THE LAST MINSTREL(1805)-MARMION (1808)-LADY OF THE LAKE(1810)-WAVERLEY(1814)-GUY MANNERING(1815)Coleridge, Samuel Thylor (1772-1834) LYRICAL BALLADS(1798)-RIME OF THE ANCIENT MARINER(1798)-DEJECTION(1802)-CHRISTABEL(1816)Austen, Jane (1775-1817) SENSE AND SENSIBILITY(1811)-PRIDE AND PREJUDICE(1813)-MANSFIELD PARK(1814)-EMMA(1816)-NORTHANGER ABBEY(1818) Lewis, Matthew Gregory(1775-1818) MONK(1796)Savage, Walter Landor(1775-1864) IMAGINARY CONVERSATIONS OF LITERARY MEN AND STATESMEN(1824-1829)Hazlitt, William(1778-1830) LIBER AMONS(1823)De Quincey, Thomas(1785-1859) CONFESSIONS OF AN ENGLISH OPIUM EATER(1821) Byron, Lord (1788-1824) CHILDE HAROLD’S PILGRIMAGE(1812)-MANFRED(1817)-DON JUAN(1819)-CAIN(1821)Shelley, Percy Bysshe(1792-1822) QUEEN MAB(1813)-HYMN TO INTELLECTUAL BEAUTY(1817)-CENCI(1819)-ODE TO THE WEST WIND(1820)Keats, John(1795-1821) ENDYMION(1818)-ODE TO A NIGHTINGALE(1819)-BELLE DAME SANS MERCI, LA(1820)-EVE OF ST. AGNES(1820)Carlyle, Thomas(1795-1881) FRENCH REVOLUTION(1837)-SARTOR RESARTUS(1834)-ON HEROES, HERO-WORSHIP AND THE HEROIC IN HISTORY(1841)Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft(1797-1851) FRANKENSTEIN(1818)Newman, John Henry (1801-1890)Browning, Elizabeth Barrett(1806-1861) AURORA LEIGH(1856)-ONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE(1860)Mill, John Stuart(1806-1873) PRINCIPLES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY(1848)-ON LIBERTY(1859)-UTILITARIANISM(1861)-SUBJECTION OF WOMEN (1869)Darwin, Charles(1809-1882) VOYAGE OF THE BEAGLE (1839)-ON THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES BY MEANS OF NATURAL SELECTION(1859)-DESCENT OF MAN (1871)Tennyson, Alfred, Lord(1809-1892) LOCKSLEY HALL(1842)-ULYSSES(1842)-PRINCESS (1848)-IN MEMORIAM(1850)-MAUD(1855)-IDYLLS OF THE KING(1859)Gaskell, Elizabeth(1810-1865) MARY BARTON(1848)-CRANFORD(1851-1853)-NORTH AND SOUTH(1854-1855)-WIVES AND DAUGHTERS(1864-1865)Thackeray, William Makepeace(1811-1863) BARRY LYNDON(1844)-VANITY FAIR(1847-1848)-HISTORY OF PENDENNIS (1848-1850)- Browning, Robert(1812-1889) MEN AND WOMEN(1855)-DRAMATIS PERSONAE(1864)-RING AND THE BOOK(1868)Dickens, Charles(1812-1870) PICKWICK PAPERS(1837)-OLIVER TWIST(1838)-CHRISTMAS CAROL(1843)-TALE OF TWO CITIES, A(1859)-GREAT EXPECTATIONS- Trollope, Anthony(1815-1882) Brontë, Charlotte(1816-1855) JANE EYRE(1847)-SHIRLEY(1849)-VILLETTE(1853)Brontë, Emily(1818-1848) WUTHERING HEIGHTS(1847)Eliot, George(1819-1880) ADAM BEDE(1859)-MILL ON THE FLOSS(1860)-SILAS MARNER(1861)-ROMOLA(1862)-FELIX HOLT, THE RADICAL(1866)Blake, William(1827- ) MILTON(1807)-SONGS OF INNOCENCE AND OF EXPERIENCE(1789)Meredith, George(1828-1909) ORDEAL OF RICHARD FEVEREL(1859)-MODERN LOVE(1862)-EGOIST(1879)-DIANA OF THE CROSSWAYS(1885)Rossetti, Dante Gabriel(1828-1882) HOUSE OF LIFE(1869)Rossetti, Christina(1830-1894) GOBLIN MARKET(1862)Carroll, Lewis(1832-1898) ALICE'S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND(1865)-THROUGH THE LOOKING-GLASS(1871)Butler, Samuel(1835-1902) HUDIBRAS(1678)-EREWHON(1872)-WAY OF ALL FLESH(1903)Swinburne, Algernon Charles(1837-1909) ATALANTA IN CALYDON(1865)-POEMS AND BALLADS(1866)Hardy, Thomas(1840-1928) WOODLANDERS(1866)-TESS OF THE D’URBERVILLES(1872)-UNDER THE GREENWOOD TREE(1872)- James, Henry(1843-1916) Hopkins, Gerard Manley(1844-1889) WRECK OF THE DEUTSCHLAND(1918)Gosse, Edmund(1849-1928) FATHER AND SON(1907)Stevenson, Robert Louis(1850-1894) TREASURE ISLAND(1881-1882)-STRANGE CASE OF DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE(1886)-KIDNAPPED(1886)Wilde, Oscar(1854-1900) PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY(1890)-LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN(1892)- Shaw, George Bernard(1856-1950) Housman, A. E(1859-1936) SHROPSHIRE LAD, A(1896)Kipling, Rudyard(1865-1936) JUNGLE BOOKS(1894-1895)-CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS(1897)-KIM(1901)Yeats, William Butler(1865-1939) COUNTESS CATHLEEN(1892)-DEIRDRE(1906)-TOWER(1927)-PURGATORY(1938)Wells, H. G.(1866-1946) TIME MACHINE(1895)-INVISIBLE MAN(1897)-WAR OF THE WORLDS(1898)-TONO-BUNGAY(1908)Bennett, Arnold(1867-1931) ANNA OF THE FIVE TOWNS(1902)-OLD WIVES’ TALE(1908)-CLAYHANGER TRILOGY(1912)-RICEYMAN STEPS(1923) Galsworthy, John(1867-1933) FORSYTE SAGA(1906-1921)Saki(1870-1916) UNBEARABLE BASSINGTON(1912)Synge, John Millington(1871-1909) RIDERS TO THE SEA(1903)-PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD(1907)-DEIRDRE OF THE SORROWS(1910)Russell, Bertrand(1872-1970) PRINCIPIA MATHEMATICA(1910-1913)-PROBLEMS OF PHILOSOPHY(1912)Ford, Ford Madox(1873-1939) GOOD SOLDIER(1915)-PARADE’S END(1924-1928)Churchill, Winston(1874-1965) CRISIS(1901)- HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH-SPEAKING PEOPLES, A(1956)Maugham, W. Somerset(1874-1965) OF HUMAN BONDAGE(1915)-MOON AND SIXPENCE(1919)-CAKES AND ALE(1930)-RAZOR’S EDGE(1944)Forster, E. M.(1879-1970) WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD(1905)-LONGEST JOURNEY (1907)-ROOM WITH A VIEW, A(1908)-HOWARDS END(1910)- Strachey, Lytton(1880-1932) EMINENT VICTORIANS(1918)O’Casey, Sean(1880-1964) JUNO AND THE PAYCOCK(1924)-PLOUGH AND THE STARS(1926)-PURPLE DUST (1940)Lewis, Wyndham(1882-1957) TARR(1918)Woolf, Virginia(1882-1941) VOYAGE OUT(1915)-MRS. DALLOWAY (Film) (1925)-TO THE LIGHTHOUSE(1927)- ORLANDO (Film) (1928)Joyce, James (1882-1941) DUBLINERS(1914)-PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN, A(1914-1915)-EXILES(1918)-ULYSSES(1922)-Lawrence, D. H.(1885-1930) SONS AND LOVERS(1913)-RAINBOW(1915)-WOMEN IN LOVE(1920)-PLUMED SERPENT(1926)-LADY CHATTERLEY’S LOVER(1928)Eliot. T. S.(1888-1965)Toynbee, Arnold(1889-1975) STUDY OF HISTORY, A(1934-1961)Christie, Agatha(1890-1976) MURDER ON THE ORIENT EXPRESS(1934)-AND THEN THERE WERE NONE(1939)-MOUSETRAP, THE(1952)Tolkien, J. R. R.(1892-1973) HOBBIT(1937)-FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING(1954)-TWO TOWERS(1954)-RETURN OF THE KING(1955)Brittain, Vera Mary (1893-1970) Huxley, Aldous(1894-1963) CROME YELLOW(1921)-POINT COUNTER POINT(1928)-BRAVE NEW WORLD(1932) Graves, Robert(1895-1985) I, CLAUDIUS(1934)-WHITE GODDESS(1948)Lewis, C. S.(1898-1963) OUT OF THE SILENT PLANET(1938)-SCREWTAPE LETTERS(1941)-CHRONICLES OF NARNIA(1950-1956)Bowen, Elizabe(1903-1950) ANIMAL FARM(1945)-NINETEEN EIGHTY-FOUR(1949)EATH OF THE HEART(1938)-HEAT OF THE DAY(194Orwel, Evelyn(1903-1966) DECLINE AND FALL(1928)-VILE BODIES(1930)-HANDFUL OF DUST, A(1934)-BRIDESHEAD REVISITED(1945)Waugh, Evelyn(1903-1966) DECLINE AND FALL(1928)-VILE BODIES(1930)-HANDFUL OF DUST, A(1934)-BRIDESHEAD REVISITED(1945)Greene, Graham(1904-1991) STAMBOUL TRAIN (1932)-BRIGHTON ROCK (film) (1938)-CONFIDENTIAL AGENT (film) (1939)-MINISTRY OF FEAR (film) (1943)- HEART OF THE MATTER (film) (1948)-END OF THE AFFAIR (film) (1951)-QUIET AMERICAN (film) (1955)- OUR MAN IN HAVANA (film) (1958)-BURNT-OUT CASE, A (1960)-COMEDIANS (film) (1966)-HUMAN FACTOR (film) (1978)Isherwood, Christopher(1904-1986) BERLIN STORIES(1945) Snow, C. P.(1905-1980) STRANGERS AND BROTHERS SERIES(1940-1970)-MASTERS(1951)-CONSCIENCE OF THE RICH(1958)Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) MOLLOY(1951)-MALONE DIES(1951)-WAITING FOR GODOT(1952)-UNNAMABLE(1953)-ALL THAT FALL(1957)-ENDGAME(1957)Auden, W. H.(1907-1973) AGE OF ANXIETY(1947)Du Maurier, Daphne(1907-1989) REBECCA(1938)Spark, Muriel(1918-2006) MEMENTO MORI(1959)-BACHELORS(1960)-PRIME OF MISS JEAN BRODIE(1961)Murdoch, Iris(1919-1999) UNDER THE NET(1954)-NUNS AND SOLDIERS(1980) Fowles, John(1926-2005) COLLECTOR(1963)-MAGUS(1965)-FRENCH LIEUTENANT’S WOMAN(1969)Albee, Edward(1928-2016) ZOO STORY(1959)-WHO'S AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF(1962)-DELICATE BALANCE, A(1966)-THREE TALL WOMEN(1991)Pinter, Harold(1930-2008) BIRTHDAY PARTY(1958)-DUMB WAITER(1959)-CARETAKER(1960)O’Brien, Edna(1930- ) COUNTRY GIRLS TRILOGY AND EPILOGUE(1960-1964)Walcott, Derek (1930-2017) POEMS Stoppard, Tom (1937- ) ROSENCRANTZ AND GUILDENSTEM ARE DEAD(1966)- TRAVESTIES(1974)-REAL THING(1982)

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