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BLOCK 1: BRITISH LITERATURE

SYLLABUS MAIN PAGE

Section 1: OLD AND MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (500-1300)

1. Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Period 

2. Important Works

3. Anglo-Norman Period

4. Important Works of Anglo-Norman Period

Section 2: AGE OF CHAUCER (1300-1400)

1. Introduction to the Age

2. John Mandeville (1300s-c.1371)

3. John Gower (1330-1408)

4. John Wycliffe (1331-1384)

5. William Langland (1332-1386)

6. Geoffrey Chaucer (1340s-1400)

7. Thomas Hoccleave (1368-1426)

8. John Lydgate (1370-1451)



Section 3: AGE OF REVIVAL (1400-1558)

1. Introduction to the Age

2. Thomas Malory (1400-1470)

3. William Dunbar (1459 or 1460 - 1530)

4. Pico della Mirandola (1463-1494)

5. John Skelton (1463-1529)

6. Erasmus (1466-1536)

7. Thomas More (1478-1535)

8. William Tyndale (1494-1536)

9. Thomas Elyot (1496-1546)

10. John Heywood (1497-1580)

11. Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

12. Henry Howard (1516 or 1517- 1547)

13. John Calvin (1509-1564)

14. John Knox (1514-1572)

15. Roger Ascham (1515-1568)

16. John Foxe (1516 or 1517-1587)

17. Richard Tottel (b. - 1594)

Section 4: ELIZABETHAN AGE (1558-1603)

1. Introduction

to the Age

POETS

1. Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

2. Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

3. Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

4. Mary Sidney (1561-1621))

5. Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. History of English Theatre

2. John Lyly (1553 or 1554-1606)

3. George Peele (1556-1596)

4. Robert Greene (1558-1592)

5. Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

6. Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

7. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

8. William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

9. Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

PROSE WRITERS

1. William Camden (1551-1623)

2. Walter Raleigh (1552-1618)

3. Richard Hakluyt (1553-1616)

4. Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

5. Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

6. Samuel Purchas (1577-1626)

Section 5: JACOBEAN AND CAROLINE AGE (1603-1642)

1. Introduction to the Age

POETS

1. John Donne (1572-1631)

2. Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

3. George Herbert (1593-1633)

4. Thomas Carew (1595-1640)

5. John Suckling (1609-1641)

6. Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)

7. Richard Lovelace (1617-1658)

8. Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)

9. Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)

10. Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. George Chapman (1559-1634)

2. Thomas Heywood (early 1570s-1641)

3. Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)

4. Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

5. John Marston (1576-1634)

6. John Webster (1578-1632)

7. Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)

8. Philip Massinger (1583-1640)

9. Beaumont (1584-1616) and Fletcher (1579-1625)

10. John Ford (1586-1639)

11. James Shirley (1596-1666)

Section 6: CIVIL WAR AND INTERREGNUM (1642-1660)


0. Introduction to the Age

1. Robert Burton (1577-1640)

2. Izaak Walton (1593-1683)

3. Thomas Browne (1605-1682)

4. John Milton (1606-1674)

5. Thomas Fuller (1608-1661)

6. Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

7. Samuel Butler (1613-1680)

8. Richard Baxter (1615-1691)

9. John Bunyan (1628-1688)

Section 7: RESTORATION AGE (1660-1688)

PLAYWRIGHTS


1. John Dryden (1631-1700)


2. George Etherege (1636-1692)


3. Aphra Behn (1640-1689)


4. William Wycherley (1641-1716)


5. Thomas Otway (1652-1685)


6. Nahum Tate (1652-1715)


7. John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)


8. William Congreve (1670-1729)


9. Colley Cibber (1671-1757)


10. Nicholas Rowe (1674-1718)


11. George Farquhar (1677-1707)

PROSE WRITERS

1. John Evelyn (1620-1706)

2. Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)

3. Thomas Rymer (1643-1713)

4. John Wilmot (1647-1680)

5. Jeremy Collier (1650-1726)

6. William Dampier (1651-1715)

7. Mary Astell (1666-1731)

Section 8: ENLIGHTENMENT AGE (1688-1798)

1. Introduction to the Age

PROSE WRITERS

1. Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

2. Richard Steele (1671-1729)

3. Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

4. Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

NOVELISTS

1. Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

2. Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

3. Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

4. Laurence Sterne (1713-1768)

5. Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)

6. Charlotte Lennox (1729-1804)

7. Elizabeth Inchbald (1753-1821)

8. Matthew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. John Gay (1685-1732)

2. Isaac Bickerstaff (1733-1808)

3. Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)

POETS

1. Thomas Parnell (1679-1718)

2. Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

3. James Thomson (1700-1748)

4. Thomas Gray (1716-1771)

5. William Collins (1721-1759)

6. Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

7. Thomas Percy (1729-1811)

8. William Cowper (1731-1800)

9. James Macpherson (1736-1796)

10. Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770)

11. George Crabbe (1754-1832)

12. Mary Robinson (1757-1800)

13. Robert Burns (1759-1796)

14. John Stagg (1770-1823)

Section 9: ROMANTIC AGE (1798-1837)

1. Introduction to the Age

POETS

1. William Blake (1757-1827)

2. William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

3. Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

4. Robert Southey (1774-1843)

5. Lord Byron (1788-1824)

6. Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

7. John Clare (1793-1864)

8. John Keats (1795-1821)

NOVELISTS

1. Horace Walpole (1717-1797)

2. Fanny Burney (1752-1840)

3. William Godwin (1756-1836)

4. Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)

5. Maria Edgeworth (1768-1849)

6. Walter Scott (1771-1832)

7. Jane Austen (1775-1817)

8. Walter Savage Landor (1775-1864)

9. John Polidori (1795-1821)

10. Mary Shelley (1797-1851)

11. Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)

PROSE WRITERS

1. Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

2. William Hazlitt (1778-1830)

3. Leigh Hunt (1784-1859)

4. Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)

Section 10: VICTORIAN AGE (1837-1901)

1. Introduction to the Age

PROSE WRITERS

1. Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)

2. Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)

3. J.H. Newman (1801-1890)

4. Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

5. John Ruskin (1819-1900)

6. Walter Pater (1839-1894)

POETS

1. Edward Fitzgerald (1803-1883)

2. Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

3. Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1902)

4. Robert Browning (1812-1889)

5. Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

6. Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

7. Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

8. Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

9. Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)

NOVELISTS

1. Rosina Bulwer Lytton (1802-1882)

2. Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)

3. Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)

4. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

5. Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

6. Charles Reade (1814-1884)

7. Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)

8. Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

9. Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

10. Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

11. George Eliot (1819-1880)

12. Anne Bronte (1820-1849)

13. William Wilkie Collins (1824-1889)

14. R.M. Ballantyne (1825-1894)

15. R.D. Blackmore (1825-1900)

16. George Meredith (1828-1909)

17. Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)

18. William Morris (1834-1896)

19. Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

20. Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)

21.Bram Stoker (1847-1912)

22. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

23. Jerome K. Jerome (1859-1927)

24. Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

Section 11: MODERN AGE (1901-1945)

1. Introduction to the Age

POETS

1. A.E. Housman (1859-1936)

2. William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

3. Arthur Symons (1865-1945)

4. John Masefield (1878-1967)

5. Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)

6. Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)

7. Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

8. Thomas Stearne (T.S.) Eliot (1888-1965)

9. Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

10. Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)

11. W.H. Auden (1907-1973)

12. Stephen Spender (1909-1995)

13. Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

2. John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

3. John Millington Synge (1871-1901)

4. Sean O’Casey (1880-1964)

NOVELISTS

1. Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

2. JM Barrie (1860-1937)

3. Arnold Bennett (1861-1731)

4. May Sinclair (1863-1946)

5. Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

6. HG Wells (1866-1946)

7. Saki/ H.H. Munro (1870-1916)

8. Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)

9. Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)

10. W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

11. Edward Morgan (E.M.) Forster (1879-1970)

12. Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)

13. Virginia Woolf (Jan 1882-1941)

14. James Joyce (Feb 1882-1941)

15. Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)

16. David Herbert (D.H.) Lawrence (1885-1930)

17. Joyce Cary (1888-1957)

18. Agatha Christie (1890-1976)

19. JRR Tolkien (1892-1973)

20. Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

21. Robert Graves (1895-1985))

22. C.S. Lewis (1898-1963)

23. George Orwell (1903-1950)

24. Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)

25. Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)

26. Graham Greene (1904-1991)

Section 12: POSTMODERN AGE (1945- )

1. Introduction to the Age

NOVELISTS

1. JB Priestley (1894-1984)

2. Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)

3. Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)

4. Anthony Powell (1905-2000)

5. William Golding (1911-1993)

6. Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)

7. Angus Wilson (1913-1991)

8. Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)

9. PH Newby (1918-1997)

10. Muriel Spark (1918-2006)

11. Irish Murdoch (1919-1999)

12. Doris Lessing (1919-2013)

13. Paul Scott (1920-1978)

14. Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)

15. John Fowles (1926-2005)

16. JP Donleavy (1926-2017)

17. Ruth Pawar Jhabvala (1927-2013)

18. Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010)

19. Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)

20. David Storey (1933-2017)

21. J.G. Farrell (1935-1979)

22. A.S. Byatt (1936-2023)

23. Angela Carter (1940-1992)

24. Pat Barker (1943-)

25. Julian Barnes (1946-)

26. Ian McEwan (1948-)

27. Martin Amis (1949-2023)

28. Graham Swift (1949-)

29. Peter Ackroyd (1949-)

30. Hilary Mantel (1952-2022)

31. Irvine Welsh (1958-)

32. Jeanette Winterson (1959-)

33. JK Rowling (1965-)

POETS

1. Roy Fuller (1912-1991)

2. David Gascoyne (1916-2001)

3. Philip Larkin (1922-1985)

4. Thom Gunn (1929-2004)

5. Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

6. Geoffrey Hill (1932-2016)

7. J.H. Prynne (1936-)

8. Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)

9. Wendy Cope (1945-)

10. Carol Ann Duffy (1955-)

PLAYWRIGHTS

1. Noel Coward (1899-1973)

2. Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)

3. Christopher Fry (1907-2005)

4. Terence Rattigan (1911-1977)

5. John Osborne (1929-1994)

6. Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

7. John Arden (1930-2012)

8. Arnold Wesker (1932-2016)

9. Joe Orton (1933-1967)

10. Alan Bennett (1934-)

11. Edward Bond (1934-)

12. Tom Stoppard (1937-)

13. Caryl Churchill (1938-)

14. David Hare (1947-)

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