History of English Literature

A brief History of English Literature from old age to post-modern age.

Included topics:

#English literature

#Old English Literature(c.450–1066)

1.Old English Literature

2.Poetry

3.Alliterative Verse

4.The Major Manuscripts

5.Problems of Dating

6.Religious Verse

7.Elegiac and Heroic Verse

8.Beowulf

9.Prose

10.Early Translations into English

#Middle English Literature(1066–1500)

1.Middle English Literature

2.Age of Geoffrey Chaucer

3.William Langland

4.Morality plays, Miracle plays, and Interlude

#English Renaissance(1500–1660)

1.English Renaissance

2.Elizabethan period (1558–1603)

3.Elizabethan Drama

4.Jacobean period (1603–1625)

5.Caroline period (1625-1649)

6.Commonwealth period (1649-1600)

#Neoclassical Period(1660-1798)

1.The Neoclassical Period

2.The Restoration Period(1660–1700)

3.Restoration Poetry

4.Restoration Prose genres

5.Restoration Theater

6.The Augustan Period(1700–1745)

7.Prose of Augustan Period

8.Poetry of Augustan Period

9.Augustan Drama

10.Age of sensibility(1745–1798)

#Romantic Period(1798-1832)

1.The nature of Romanticism

2.Romantic Poetry

3.Romantic novel

4.Romantic Drama

#Victorian Literature(1837–1901)

1.Victorian Literature

2.The Victorian Novel

3.Victorian Poetry

4.Victorian Drama

#Modern Period(1901-1939)

1.Introduction to modern period

2.Key points to remember about modern period

3.Transition from the Victorian period to the Modern Period

4.Literature of the Modern period

5.Modern period : Artistic features

6.The pillars of modernism

7.D. H. Lawrence

8.James Joyce

#Post–modernism(1940–2000)

1.Post–modernism (1940–2000)

2.Fiction

3.Poetry

4.Drama

#The 21st Century