Chapter One Old and Medieval Liter*ure Old English Liter*ure (450-1066) Beowulf Other Poems Prose Middle English Liter*ure (1066-1485) The GawaiPoet Other Poets Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
Chapter Two Renaissance and Refor*tioLiter*ure Background Tho*s More (1478-1535) Sir Tho*s Wy*t (1503-1542) and Henry Howard The Earl of Surrey (1518-1547) Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586) and Walter Raleigh (1527-1618) Ed*nd Spenser (1552-1599) Early Dra* The Unive*ity Wits Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Chapter Three The 17th Century Shakespeare's Successo* BeJonso(1573-1637) Other Playwrights JohDonne and the Metaphysical Poets JohMilto(1608-1674) Prose Francis Baco(1561-1626) The English Bible Other Prose Write* JohBunya(1628-1688) JohDryde(1631-1700)
Chapter Four The 18th Century Prose Jon*haSwift (1667-1745) The Rise of the Novel Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) Sa*el Richardso(1689-1761) Henry Fielding (1707-1754) Tobias Smollett (1721-1771) Poetry Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Tho*s Gray (1716-1771) L*e 18th Century Liter*ure Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) Sa*el Johnso(1709-1784) Richard Sherida(1751-1816) Edward Gibbo(1737-1794) Ed*nd Burke (1729-1797) The Gothic Novel Robert Burns (1759-1796)
Chapter Five The Age of Ro*nticism (1790——1840) Background Ro*ntic Poets William Wordsworth (1770-1850) Sa*el Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) George GordoByro(1788-1824) Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) JohKe*s (1795-1821) Prose Charles Lamb (1775-1834) Tho*s de Quincey (1785-1859) William H*litt (1778-1830) Robert Southey (1774-1843) Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) JohGibsoLockhart (1794-1854) Novel Walter Scott (1771-1832) Jane Auste(1775-1817) Minor Novelists
Chapter Six Vi*oriaLiter*ure (1837-1901) Poetry Alfred Tennyso(1809-1892) Robert Browning (1812-1889) Other Poets Prose Tho*s Carlyle (1795-1881) Tho*s Macaulay (1800-1859) JohRuski(1819-1900) Walter P*er (1839-1894) Novel The Bronte Siste* Other Write* Charles Dickens (1812-1870) William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) George Eliot (1819-1880) Anthony Trollope (1815-1882) George Meredith (1828-1909) Tho*s Hardy (1840-1928) Liter*ure of the fin-de-siOcle
Chapter SeveFi*t Half of the 20th Century Background Poetry GeorgiaPoetry and War Poetry Modernist Poetry William Butler Ye*s (1865-1939) Tho*s Stearns Eliot (1888-1965) Poetry of the Thirties and Forties Dra* George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish Dra*tic Renaissance Novel Traditional Novel Modernist Novel Working Class Novel ithe 1930s S*irical Fi*ion
Chapter Eight Second Half of the 20th Century Dra* Harold Pinter (1930- ) JohOsborne (1929-1994) Arnold Wesker (1932- ) Joe Orto(1933-1967) Other Dra*tists Poetry Philip Larki(1922-1985) Ted Hughes (1930-1999) Geoffrey Hill (1932- ) Ronald Stuart Tho*s (1913-2000) Sea*s Heaney (1939- ) Other Poets Novel The Angry Young Men Other Novelists Campus Novel Historical Novel Regional Novel Other Recent Novelists Chronology References