Early and Medieval English Literature
Three famouse Conquests:
The Roman Conquest (55BC- 410AD)
The Anglo-Saxon Conquest (449-1066)
The Norman Conquest (1066-1485)
The Anglo-Saxon Poetry:
Pagan Poetry (Beowulf)
Religious Poetry (Caedmon and Cynewulf)
The Anglo-Saxon Prose: (Prose appeared in the 8th century )
Venerable Bede (The Ecclesiastical History of the English People)
Alfred the Great
Medieval Literature
1066: Anglo-Saxon Period bagan
1200: Middle English Literature bagan
Raman Cycles: "Matters of Rome" "Matters of France" "Matters of Britain"(Sir Gawain and the Green Knight)
Geoffrey Chaucer (14th century):
1.The Romance of the Rose （translation from French)
2.The House of Fame
3.Trolius and Criseide
4.The Canterbury Tales
John Wycliffe (14th century): the first attempt to translate the latin version of the Bible into Middle English
English Renaissance literature ( the late 15th century -middle 17th century)
Wars and Refromation
Thomas More (the first English humanist)
Utopia
Edmund Spencer:
The Shepherds Calendar
The Faerie Queene
Epithalamion 1595
Bacon: the first English essayist
Advancement of Learning <<论学术的进展>>
Novum Organum <<新工具>>
Maxim of the Law <<法律箴言>>
Reading on the Statute of Uses <<谈使用法则>>
Essays<<随笔>>
University Wits
Christopher Marlowe:
Tamburlanine the Great
The Jew of Malta
The Tragical History of Doctore Faustus
William Shakespear
37plays ,154 sonnets , and 2 narrative poems
Comedies:
The Comedy of Error The Taming of the Shrew The Two Gentlemen of Verona
Love's labour's Lost // A Midsummer Night's Dream The Merchant of Venice
As You Like It Twelfth Night // Troilus and Cressida
Tragedies:
Titus Andronicus Romeo and Juliet // Julius Caesar // Antony and Cleopatra // Hamlet Othello King Lear Macbeth
Historical plays:
Henry VI Richard III // Richard II Henry IV Henry V
Cymbeline The Winter's Tale The Tempest The Life of King Henry VIII
The Seventeenth Century (Revolution, Puritanism and Restoration)
Literature in the Revolution Period
Three Johns:
John Donne (founder of Metaphysical school) Songs and Sonnets
Devotion Upon Emergent Occasions
John Milton: Lycidas Areopagitica<<论出版自由>> In Defense of the English People
More in Defense of the British People Paradise Lost Paradise Regained Samson Agonistes
John Bunyan:
The pilgrim Progress Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners
The Life and Death of Mr.Badman The Holy War
The 18th Century Literature
Industrial Revolution, Enclosure and Enlightenment Movement
Neoclassicism John Dryden Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson
John Dryden ： The Year of Wonders Absalom and Achitophel
The Hind and the Panther<<牝鹿与豹>> A Song for St.Cecilia Day
Alxander's Feast The Rival Ladies The Conquest of Grenada Marriage la Mode
All for Love An Essay of Dramatic Poesy<<论戏剧诗>>
Alexander Pope：
An Essay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock The Dunciad
An Essay on Man Epistle to Dr.Arbuthnot Iliad and Odyssey The Works of Shakespeare
Samuel Johnson：
A Dictionary of the English Language London The Vanity of Human Wishes
The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia Irene Lives of the Poets
Richard Steele: The Tatler
Joesph Addison: The Spectator
Daniel Defoe:
The Shortest Way with Dissenters <<消灭不同教派的捷径>>
Robinson Crusoe Moll Flanders Roxand
Swift Works:
The Battle of Books A Tale of the Tub The Drapier's Letters Gulliver's Travels
A Modest Proposal
Samuel Richardson:
Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) Clarissa Howe Sir Charles Grandison
Henry Fielding:
Joseph Andrew Jonathan Wild Great Tom Jones, the Foundling Amelia
Sentimentalism
Graveyard School
Thomas Gray: An Elegy written in a Country Churyard On the Death of a Favorite Cat
The Progress of Poetry The Bard The Descent of Odin The Correspondence
Robert Blair : The Grave
Edward Young: Night Thoughts
Thomas Parnell: Night-Piece on Death
James Harvey: Meditation
Romanticism
Lake Poets
William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey:
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Christable Kubla Khan Frost at Midnight
Biographia Literaria
Satanic Poets
Lord Byron :
Hours of Idleness English Bards and Scottish Reviews <<英国诗人可苏格兰评论家>> Childe Harold's Pligrimage Giaour <<异教徒>> The Bride of Abydos<<阿比多斯的新娘>> The Corsair<<海盗>> Lara <<拉腊>> Parisna The Sieage of Corinth<<科林斯之围>>
Don Juan
John Keats: His 1819 odes
Percy Bysshe Shelley:
Men of England Ode to the West Wind Prometheus Unbound
A Defense of Poetry
Novels in 19th century:
Mary W. Shelley:
Frankenstein；or ,The Modern Prometheus
Charlotte
Jane Eyre Shirley Villette Professor
Emily:
Wuthering the Heights
Anne:
Agnes Grey The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Elizabeth C.Gaskell:
The life of Charlotte Bronte Mary Barton Moorland Cottage Cranford
Ruth North and South Wives and Daughters
Walter Scott:
Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border The Lay of the last Minstrel
Marmion The lady of the Lake
The Waverley Novels
( Waverley Guy Mannering Old Morality Rob Roy The Heart of Midlothian )
