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Prose: Hagiographic & Homiletic
WulIstan

Introduction: Background, MSS, Prosody, Poems
Secular, Beowulf
Narrative
ANGLO-SAXON Religious, Elene
Poetry Secular, The Wanderer
Elegiac
Religious, Resignation

Allegorical, The Dream of the Rood

Wisdom: The Riddles






Background: Continental InIluence

Early Prose: Didactic, Ancrene Wise

King Horn
Early Romances
Havelock the Dane

Romance, Sir Gawain & the Green K.
Alliterative Revival
Allegorical, Piers Plowman

Poetry GeoIIrey Chaucer, The Canterburv Tales
MEDIEVAL
Popular: The Ballads

Thomas Hoccleve
The Chaucerian School John Lydgate
William Dunbar


Mystery Plays, The Second Shepherds Pageant
Drama
Morality Plays, Mankind

Prose: Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte DArthur

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Background: Humanism. Philosophy. Style

Wyatt
Tudor: Poetry
Surrey

Sidney, Astrophel and Stella
Lyrical
Poetry Shakespeare, The Sonnets

Allegorical: Spenser, The Faerie Queene

Pre-Shakespearian: Marlowe, Dr. Faustus

Elizabethan Histories, Henrv IJ

Drama Hist. Tragedies, Richard III
RENAISSANCE Shakespearian
Tragedies, Hamlet

Comedies, A Midsummer
Nights Dream

Prose: Thomas Nashe, The Unfortunate Traveller

The School oI Jonson
Poetry
The School oI Donne

Jacobean City Comedy: Ben Jonson, The Alchemist
Drama
Revenge Tragedy: Webster, The White Devil

Prose: Francis Bacon, Essavs



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Background: Courtly Literature

John Milton: 1st Modern Epic: Paradise Lost
Poetry
John Dryden: Satire, Absalom and Achitophel
RESTORATION
Wycherley: Comedy oI Manners, The Countrv Wife
Drama
John Dryden: Tragedy, All for Love

Prose John Bunyan: Allegory, The Pilgrims Progress


Background. Classicism and New Literary Forms

Poetry: Augustan: Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock


Drama: Comedy: Sheridan: The School for Scandal


Satire: Jonathan SwiIt: Gullivers Travels
18th-CENTURY
The Rise oI the Novel: Daniel DeIoe: Moll Flanders

Prose Samuel Richardson, Pamela
The Novel Matures
Henry Fielding, Tom Jones

Experimental Fiction: Laurence Sterne: Tristram Shandv

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Background: The Poet and the People

Forerunner: Blake, Songs of Innocence and Experience

W. Wordsworth
The Founding Fathers Lvrical Ballads
S.T. Coleridge
Poetry
ROMANTIC Lord Byron

The Younger Generation P.B. Shelley

John Keats

Innov. & Conv.: Jane Austen, Emma
Prose: Development oI Fiction
Hist. Novel: Walter Scott, Waverlev


Background. Empire. Industry. ReIorm.

Tennyson & Browning
Poetry
Pre-Raphaelites: Rossetti
VICTORIAN
C. Dickens, Bleak House

Fiction Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights

George Eliot, Middlemarch
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Background. Decadence.

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poetry
Thomas Hardy

LATE VICT. & Prose
Oscar Wilde
EDWARDIAN Drama, The Importance of Being Earnest

G.B. Shaw: Drama oI Ideas, Mafor Barbara

Thomas Hardy, Tess of the DUrbervilles
Prose: The Naturalists George. R. Gissing, New Grub Street
George A. Moore, Esther Waters


Background. Modernism & Politics

W. B. Yeats

T. S. Eliot
The Modernists
Poetry Ezra Pound

W. H. Auden
The 30`s & 40`s
Dylan Thomas

Synge, Plavbov of the W. World
The Irish Renaissance
O`Casey, Plough and the Stars
Drama
MODERN The English 'High Comedy: Noel Coward, Blithe Spirit

The Revival oI Verse Drama: T.S. Eliot, Murder in the C.

Henry James, Washington Square
Pioneers
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
Modernist
James Joyce, Ulvsses
Central Figures
Prose V. WoolI, To the Lighthouse

Forster, A Passage to India
Continuity oI Tradition I
Lawrence, Sons and Lovers

Political Fiction: George Orwell, Nineteen Eightv-Four
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Background. The New Identity.

Philip Larkin
The Movement & The Group
Ted Hughes
Poetry
GeoIIrey Hill

Seamus Heaney

Theatre oI the Absurd: Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot

J. Osborne, Look Back in Anger
The Angry Generation
Arnold Wesker, Roots
Drama
H. Pinter, The Homecoming

Theatre oI the 60`s Edward Bond, Saved

Joe Orton, Entertaining Mr Sloane

Tom Stoppard, Travesties
The 70`s & 80`s
CONTEMPORARY Michael Frayn, Noises Off

Flann O`Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds

Experimental Malcolm Lowry, Under the Jolcano

Samuel Beckett, The Unnamable

Kingsley Amis, Luckv Jim

Angry Young Men John Wain, Hurrv On Down

Sillitoe, Saturdav Night & Sundav M.

Prose C.P. Snow, The Masters

Cont. oI Tradition II W. Golding, Lord of the Flies

Iris Murdoch, Under the Net

John Fowles, The French Ls Woman

Doris Lessing, Marriages Between.
Post-Modernist
B. S. Johnson, The Unfortunates

Salman Rushdie, Midnights Children