This document provides information about various periods, authors, works, and terms in English literature. It includes lists of literary periods from Anglo-Saxon to postmodern; notable authors from different eras like Shakespeare, Wordsworth, and Eliot; genres such as plays, poems, novels; and terms like ballad, sonnet, and satire. It also gives summaries and context for many classic English literary works and excerpts several famous quotations.
2. Age/Years :
Victorian : 1832-1901
Anglo Saxon : 450-1066
Elizabethan : 1558-1603
Renaissance : 1500-1660
Romantic age : 1798-1830
Romantic : 1798-1832
Modern : 1901-1939
Post Modern : 1939
Shakespeare: Elizabeth age (1564-1616)
Churchill got Nobel: 1953
Novel award introduced in Literature: 1901
TS Eliot born : 1888
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3. Age/Period
Golden age: Elizabeth I age
Mid English Period: 1066-1500
Modern Poet: TS Eliot
Oldest Period: Anglo Saxon
Romantic Age Poet: J Keats, Wordsworth
Romantic Period: 1798-1830
Shakespeare lived: Elizabeth Reign
Victorian age Poet: Robert Browning
Victorian period: 19th century
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4. Types
Shakespeare : Plays/Drama
Bertrand Russel : Philosopher(UK)
Charles Dickens : Novelist
Goethe (Poet) : Germany
O Henry famous : Short history
Same period belong : ST Colidge + Wordworth
Epic Poet :John Milton, Lord Tennyson
William Hazlitit : Essayist
Francis Bacon : Essayist
Lucy Poem : Wordsworth
Charles Lamb : Essayist
Lyciday : J Milton
George Barnard Shaw : Play Writer
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5. English Literary Terms:
A Fantasy: Imaginary Story
Achilles: Greek Fighter
Ballad: Short narrative poem
Catastrophe: The tragic end of dramatic events
Lexicographer: Dictionary Writers
Limerick: Short form of light verse
Melodrama: Play: Violent & Sensational themes
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6. English Literary Terms:
Novel: Latin word
Ode - a lyric poem, often in the form of an
address.
Opera a musical drama.
Parody imitation of a poem or a writing.
Penny dreadful blood and thunder tales.
Plagiarism act of stealing from the writing of
others.
Protagonist the leading character in a play /
novel.
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7. English Literary Terms:
Rhetoric the art of persuasive impressive
speaking / writing.
Rhyme short poem in same sound.
Satire - The literary art that uses honour and
wit to attack and expose human folly and
weakness.
Sonnet a poem of fourteen lines.
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8. English Literary Terms:
Thrillers sensational stories
Renaissance: The revival of life
Romantic Poetry feature: Subjectivity
Romanticism: Love & Beauty
To Daffodils: Short lived human life
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9. Books & writers Name
A Brief History of Time
-Stephen Hawking
A Farewell to Arms
-Earnest Hemingway
A Long Walk to Freedom
-Nelson Mandela
A Midsummers Nights Dream
-William Shakespeare
A pair of Blue Eyes
-Thomas Hardy
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10. Books & writers Name
A Passage to India
-E. M. Forster
Adonis
-P. B Shelly
Akbar Nama
-Abul Fazal
Alls Well that Ends Well
-William Shakespeare
Andrea Del Sarto (Poem)
-Browning
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11. Books & writers Name
Animal Farm
-George Orwell
Anna Karenina
-Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
As You Like it
-William Shakespeare
Asian Drama
-Gunner Myrdal
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12. Books & writers Name
Blue Bird
-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Caesar and Cleopatra
-George Bernard Shaw
Canterbury Tales
-Geoffrey Chaucer
Cesar and Cleopatra (Play)
-G.B Shaw
Comedy of errors
-Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment
-Dostoevsky
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13. English Literary Terms:
Das Capital
-Karl Mark
David Copperfield
-Charles Dickens
Dialogues
-Plato
Dictionary
-Samuel Johnson
Discovery of India
-Johor Lal Nehru
Divine Comedy
-Dante
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14. English Literary Terms:
Don Juan
-Lord Byron
Dr. Faustus
-Christopher Marlowe
Emma
-Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls
-Earnest Hemingway
Freedom
-Bertrand Russell
Friends not Masters
- Gen Ayub Khan
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15. English Literary Terms:
God of the Small Things
-Arundhuty Roy
Great Expectations
-Charles Dickens
Gullivers Travels
-Jonathan Swift
Hamlet
- Shakespeare
Hamlet
-William Shakespeare
Heaven and Earth
-Lord Byron
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16. English Literary Terms:
If Winter comes (Poem)
- Shelley
Iliad
-Homer
In Memoriam
-Lord Alfred Tennyson
India Wins Freedom
-Abul Kalam Azad
Isabella
-John Keats
Julias Caesar (Tragedy)
- Shakespeare
Jungle Book
-Rudyard Kipling
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17. English Literary Terms:
King Lear
- Shakespeare (tragedy)
Kubla Khan
- ST Coleridge
Leaves of Grass
- Walt Whitman
Lycidas
-John Milton
Macbeth
-William Shakespeare
Main Kemp
-Ad loaf Hitler
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18. English Literary Terms:
Man and Superman
-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage and Moral
-Bertrand Russell
Measure and Measure
-William Shakespeare
Memories of the Second World War
-Winston Churchill
Merchant of Venice (Comedy)
- Shakespeare
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19. English Literary Terms:
Mother
-Maxim Gorky
Ode to the West Wind
-P.B Shelly
Odyssey
-Homer
Of human bondage
- Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist
-Charles Dickens
Origin of Species
-Charles Darwin
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20. English Literary Terms:
Othello
-William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost
- J. Milton
Paradise Regained
- Milton
Passage to India
-E.M Forster
Pilgrims Progress
-John Bunyan
Politics
-Aristotle
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21. English Literary Terms:
Prelude
-William Wordsworth
Pride and Prejudice
- John Austin
Prince
-Machiavelli
Rape of the Lock
-Alexander Pope
Republic
-Plato
Robinson Crusoe
-Daniel Defoe
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22. English Literary Terms:
Romeo and Juliet
-William Shakespeare
Roots
-Alex Haley
Samson Agonists
-John Milton Das
Scholar Gipsy
-Matthew Arnold
Sense and Sensibility
-Jane Austen
Seven Seas
-Rudyard Kipling
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23. English Literary Terms:
Silent Women
-Ben Jonson
Solitary Reaper
- William Wordsworth
Songs of innocence
- William Blake
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow
-D.H Lawrence
Tempest
-William Shakespeare
Tess of the DUrbervilles
-Thomas Hardy
The 2nd world
- Winston Churchill
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24. English Literary Terms:
The Alchemist
-Ben Jonson
The diamond necklace (Short story)
- Maupassant
The God of Small things
- Arundhuti Roy
The Good Earth
- Pearl S Buch (USA)
The Iliad
- Homer
The Merchant of Venice
-William Shakespeare
The new testament
- John Wycliffe
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25. English Literary Terms:
The Old Man and The Sea
-Earnest Hemingway
The picture of Dorain Gray
- Oscar Wild
The Rainbow (Novel)
- Lawrence
The Rape of the Lock
-Alexander Pope
The Return of the Native
-Thomas Hardy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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26. English Literary Terms:
Animal Farm
-George Orwell
The sacred flame
- William Somerset Mengham
The Tale of Two Cities
-Charles Dickens
The Taming of shrew
- Shakespeare
The Time Machine
- H.G Wells
The Waste Land (Poem)
- TS Eliot
The Way of the World
-William Congreve
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27. English Literary Terms:
Things Fall Apart
-Chinua Achebe
Time Machine
-H. W Wells
To Skylark
-P. B Shelly
Tom Jones
-Henry Fielding
Top Secret
-Henry Fielding
Try and Try Again
-W.E Hick son
Twelfth Night
-William Shakespeare
Ulysses (Novel)
- Jmaes Joyces
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28. English Literary Terms:
Utopia
-Sir Thomas Moore
Vanity Fair
-W.M Thackeray
Volpone
-Ben Jonson
Voyage of Lilliput
-Jonathon Swift
Waiting For Goddot
-Samuel Becket
War and Peace
-Leo Tolstoy
Wealth and Nation
-Adam Smith
West Land
-T.S Eliot
Wuthering Heights
-Emile Bronte
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29. Character
Adam
- Paradise Lost - J Milton (Epic)
Alice
- Lewis Carrol
Ancient Mariner
- ST Colridge.
Cleopatra
- Othello (Tragedy) Shakespeare
Hctor
- Illiard (Epic) - Homer
Ivanhoc
- Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
James Bond
- Ian Fleming
Jeeves
- Woodhouse
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30. Character
Kim Kipling
Machbeth - Machbeth (Tragedy) -
Shakespeare
Micawber - David Coperfield - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Sherlock Homes - Conan Doyle (Novel)s
Shylock - The Merchant of Venice (Comedy ) -
Shakespeare
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31. Quotations:
A thing of beauty is joy forever =Jonh Keats =
Endymion
Beauty is truth-=Jonh Keats=Ode on a greacion
keats
Behold hersingle in the field=W. Wordsworth
Blow blow the winter wind=W shakespeare
Come live with me and be my love=Christopher
marlow
Cowards die many time before their death =
Shakespeare=Julias Caesar
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32. Quotations:
England expects every man to do his duty=Nelson
Give me a good mother, I will give u a good
nation=Nepoleon
Good face is the best letter of
recommendation=Queen Elizabeth
He prayeth best who loveth best=ST Colridge
=The Anci Marine
If winter comes can spring befar behind=PB
Shelley=Ode to the west wind
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33. Quotations:
If winter comes=PB Shelley=Ode to west wind
Justice delayed is justice denied=Gladstone
Oh lift me as a wave a leaf a cloud I blees=PB
S.Shelley=Ode to the wesr wind
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of a
saddesr thought=
Some book are to be tasted=Princess
Bacon=of study
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34. Quotations:
There are more thing in heaven and
earth=Shakespaere=Hamlet ar charater
There is a divinity that shapes our ends=
shakespeare=hamlet
To be or not to be that is the question=
shakespeare=Hamlet
To err is human to forgive is divine=Alexander
Pope
We look before and after=PB Shelley
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35. English - 爨爭爨爨爨逗爨爨鉦Σ 爨爨爨鉦Α爨鉦Π 爨踶
爨爨迦Θ爨逗Δ 爨爨萎爨爭爨劇鉦Π 爨爨逗Σ爨迦Μ爨鉦Σ爨 爨爨爭爨むΠ爭爨爭爨爭 爨
English Paper I (Shakespeare to Romantic Period)
Austen : Pride and Prejudice
Coleridge : The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan,
Dejection: an Ode
Keats : Odes
Milton : Paradise Lost
Shakespeare : Hamlet, King Lear, Macbeth, Othello. The
Tempest.
Shelley : Ode to the West Wind, To a Skylark
Swift : Gulliver's Travels
Wordsworth: Tintern Abbey,
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
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36. English - 爨爭爨爨爨逗爨爨鉦Σ 爨爨爨鉦Α爨鉦Π 爨踶
爨爨迦Θ爨逗Δ 爨爨萎爨爭爨劇鉦Π 爨爨逗Σ爨迦Μ爨鉦Σ爨 爨爨爭爨むΠ爭爨爭爨爭 爨
English Paper II (Victorian to Modern Period)
Arthur Miller : Death of a Salesman
Beckett : Waiting for Godot
Browning : Andrea del Sarto, Fra Lippo Lippi
Conrad : Heart of Darkness
D. H. Lawrence : Sons and Lovers
Dickens : Great Expectations
Hardy : Tess of the D'Urbarvilles
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37. English - 爨爭爨爨爨逗爨爨鉦Σ 爨爨爨鉦Α爨鉦Π 爨踶
爨爨迦Θ爨逗Δ 爨爨萎爨爭爨劇鉦Π 爨爨逗Σ爨迦Μ爨鉦Σ爨 爨爨爭爨むΠ爭爨爭爨爭 爨
Mathew Arnold : Dover Beach,The Scholar Gipsy, Thyrsis
My Last Duchess, Rabbi Ben Ezra
T.S.Eliot : The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Waste
Land
Tennyson : Ulysses,The Lotos Eaters, Tithonus, In
Memoriam
Yeats : Selections
Charles Dickens: A tale of two cities, David Copperfield,
Great Expectation
D.H Lawrence: The Rainbow, Lady Chatterleys lovers, Sons
and lovers.
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38. 爨爭爨萎爨む爨爨爨爨萎爭 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨爨萎 - 爨爨 爨爨爨鉦
爨爭爨迦爨 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨 (爨謹爭 爨爨鉦)
Romantic Period:
"Australia 爨 Scotland 爨踶 Blake Keats 爨萎 Shelley 爨爨
Wordsworth 爨爨迦Σ Call 爨爨迦Π"爛
爨爨爨伍爨む鉦Θ爨萎Δ :
Australia= Austen
Scotland = Walter Scott
Blake = William Blake
Keats = John Keats
Shelley = P.B Shelley
Wordsworth = William Wordsworth
Call = ST Coleridge
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39. 爨爭爨萎爨む爨爨爨爨萎爭 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨爨萎 - 爨爨 爨爨爨鉦
爨爭爨迦爨 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨 (爨謹爭 爨爨鉦)
Modern Period:
"Lawrence 爨踶 Maugham Forster 爨爨迦Σ, Yes
(Yeats), Hemingway Well keeping 爨爨迦Π爛"
爨爨爨伍爨む鉦Θ爨萎Δ :
Lawrence = D.H Lawrence
Maugham = Somerset Maugham
Forster = E.M Forster
Yes (Yeats) = W. B. Yeats
Hemingway = Earnest Hemingway
keeping = Rudyard Kipling
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40. 爨爭爨萎爨む爨爨爨爨萎爭 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨爨萎 - 爨爨 爨爨爨鉦
爨爭爨迦爨 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨 (爨謹爭 爨爨鉦)
Renaissance Period:
Henry Wife (Wyatt) Moore Swovy 爨÷鉦Σ爨爛
爨爨爨伍爨む鉦Θ爨萎Δ :
Henry = O Henry
Wife (Wyatt)
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41. 爨爭爨萎爨む爨爨爨爨萎爭 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨爨萎 - 爨爨 爨爨爨鉦
爨爭爨迦爨 爨逗鉦Θ爨逗Θ爨むΟ爨 (爨謹爭 爨爨鉦)
It's interesting !
1789 : French Revolution
1798 : Romantic period of English Literature
started
1879 : Birth of Edward Forster
1888 : Birth of T.S Eliot
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