English Literature [Link]There are a list of major authors in English Literature August 25, 2024 by English Literature, ‘There are a list of major authors in English Literature Table of Contents 1.1. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450-1066) 2.2. Middle English Period (1066-1500) 3.3, The Renaissance (1500-1660) 4.4, The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798) 5.5. The Romantic Period (1798-1837) 6.6. The Victorian Period (1837-1901) 7.7. The Modern Period (1901-1945) 8.8. The Postmodern Period (1945~Present) 1. Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450-1066) * Author: Unknown + Major Work: Beowulf + The Venerable Bede* Ecclesiastical History of the English People + Unknown Authors (composed orally) * The Seafarer, The Wanderer + Cynewulf + Religious poetry like The Dream of the Rood Context: The literature of this period was heavily influenced by Norse mythology and pagan traditions, later blending with Christian elements. 2. Middle English Period (1066-1500) Geoffrey Chaucer + The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde William Langland + Piers Plowman Sir Thomas Malory + Le Morte d’rthur The Pearl Poet (Unknown Author) * Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl Context: This period saw the gradual development of the English language from Old to Middle English. It also marks the emergence of chivalric romances and religious allegories. 3. The Renaissance (1500-1660) * William Shakespeare + Hamlet, Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Tempest, Othello * Christopher Marlowe + Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta + Edmund Spenser + The Faerie Queene + John Milton * Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained «Sir Philip Sidney « Astrophil and Stella, The Countess of Pembroke'’s Arcadia * Ben Jonson + Volpone, The Alchemist Context: The Renaissance was a time of rebirth for classical ideals, fostering a flourishing of drama, poetry, and prose. The introduction of the printing press helped spread these works more widely, 4. The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798) + John Dryden+ Absalom and Achitophel, Mac Flecknoe Alexander Pope + The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, Essay on Man Jonathan Swift * Gulliver's Travels, A Modest Proposal Samuel Johnson * A Dictionary of the English Language, The Lives of the Poets Daniel Defoe + Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders Henry Fielding + Tom Jones, Joseph Andrews Context: The Neoclassical period emphasized order, logic, and decorum. Writers drew heavily on classical forms, focusing on satire, essays, and heroic couplets. 5. The Romantic Period (1798-1837) William Wordsworth * Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude + Samuel Taylor Coleridge + The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan * Lord Byron * Don Juan, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage » Percy Bysshe Shelley + Ozymandias, Prometheus Unbound + John Keats * Ode to a Nightingale, To Autumn + Mary Shelley * Frankenstein * William Blake + Songs of Innocence and of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell Context: The Romantic period was marked by a focus on emotion, nature, and the individual. It reacted against the industrial revolution and the Enlightenment’s emphasis on reason. 6. The Victorian Period (1837-1901) Charles * Great Expectations, A Tale of Two Cities, Oliver Twist George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans) + Middlemarch, Silas Marner Thomas Hardy ‘+ Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Far from the Madding Crowd Alfred Lord Tennyson * In Memoriam [Link]., The Charge of the Light Brigade kensRobert Browning * My Last Duchess, The Ring and the Book Emily Bronté + Wuthering Heights Charlotte Bronté * Jane Eyre Elizabeth Barrett Brow 9 + Sonnets from the Portuguese Lewis Carroll * Alice's Adventures in Wonderland Context: Victorian literature reflected the complexities of social, political, and technological change during the era, often focusing on social issues, realism, and moral questions. 7. The Modern Period (1901-1945) TS. Eliot * The Waste Land, Four Quartets * Virginia Woolf + Mrs Dalloway, To the Lighthouse, Orlando + James Joyce * Ulysses, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man + D.H. Lawrence + Sons and Lovers, Lady Chatterley’s Lover + WB. Yeats + The Second Coming, Sailing to Byzantium + F Scott Fitzgerald + The Great Gatsby + Emest Hemingway * The Old Man and the Sea, A Farewell to Arms + Katherine Mansfield * The Garden Party, Bliss Context: Modernism brought radical experimentation with narrative techniques, fragmentation, and a focus on the subconscious. The period was shaped by World War | and the interwar years, 8. The Postmodern Period (1945-Present) George Orwell © 1984, Animal Farm Samuel Beckett + Waiting for Godot, Endgame Salman Rushdie * Midnight's Children, The Satanic Verses Margaret Atwood+ The Handmaid's Tale, Oryx and Crake Toni Morrison * Beloved, Song of Solomon Haruki Murakami + Kafka on the Shore, Norwegian Wood Kazuo Ishiguro * Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day Don DeLillo + White Noise, Underworld Context: Postmodern literature often questions the nature of reality, truth, and identity. It features metafiction, pastiche, and a blending of high and low culture. 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