I General H.E.

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1. Age- Chaucer to Post modernism
2. Movements- Elizabethan to Post modern
3. Poetry- Chaucer to Post modern
4. Drama- (a) Morality to Post modern / (b)Greek Drama
5. Novel-Crusoe to date
6. Short Stories- Origin to date
7. Prose- Origin to date
II Criticism
Sidney- Williams
III American Literature
1. Poetry- Emerson to Stevens
2. Novels- Cooper to Mailer
3. Drama- Eliot, O' Neil to Albee
4. Short Stories- Poe to O' Henry
5. Prose- Emerson to date
IV COMMON WEALTH LITERATURE
1. Indian Content
Major poets- Toru Dutt- Ezekiel
Major novelists- Rao, RKN, Aanand
Major Dramatists- Karnard etc
2. Australian content
Major poets, dramatists, novelists,
3. New Zealand- Mansfield
4. African content
Poets, dramatists, prose writers, novelists.
5. Canadian content
Novelists
Books for reference;
Age- social history of England
Movements and genres- history of English literature- Edward Albert
Introduction to literary forms-R.J.Reese
American Literature- An Introduction I & II

POETRY
Chaucer to Present age
Major poets1. Pre-Chaucer
1. caedman,
2. Cyne Woolf,
3. Langland
2. Age of Chaucer
1. Chaucer
2. John Gower
3. Dunbar
4. Wyatt & Surrey
3. Early Elizabethan
1. Spenser
2. Drayton
4. Elizabethan
1.

Shakespeare

2. John Donne
3. George Herbert
4. Henry Vaughn
5. Richard Grashaw
6. Andrew Marvell -------Metaphysical School.......
5. Post- Elizabethan
1. John Milton
2. Thomas Carew
3. John Suckling
4. Richard Lovelace
5. Abraham Cowley
6. Herrick
7. Waller
8. Samuel Butler
6. Restoration
John Dryden
7. Classical School
1) Pope
2) Johnson
3) Goldsmith
4) Cowper
8. Pre- Romantics
1) Gray

2) Collins
3) Blake
4) Burns
5) Southey
6) Gabbe
9. Major Romantics
1) Wordsworth
2) Coleridge
3) Keats
10. Minor Romantics
1) Shelley
2) Byron
11. Victorians
1) Tennyson
2) Arnold
3) Browning
4) Arthur Hugh Clough
5) George Meredith
12. Pre- Raphaelites
1) D.G. Rossetti
2) C.G. Rossetti
3) Swinburne
4) William Morries
13. Pre-moderns
1) Oscar Wilde
2) Rudyard Kipling
3) Rupert Brooke
4) Thomas Hardy
5) WAR POETS
6) R. Brooke
7) W.Owen
8) S.Sasoon
9) R. Graves
14. Moderns
1) T.S. Eliot
2) Hopkins
3) Yeats
4) Pound
5) W.H. Auden
6) C. Day Lewis

15. Post Moderns

1) Larkin
2) Ted Hughes
3) Thom Gunn
AMERICAN POETS
Early1) Emerson
2) Whitman
3) Long Fellow
4) E.A. Poe
5) E. Dickinson
Later1) E.A. Robinson
2) R.Frost
3) E.E.Cummings
4) V.Lindsay
5) Carl Sanburg
6) Harl Crane
7) W. C. Williams
8) W. Stevens
9) R. Lowel
10) Sylvia Plath
DRAMA
I.EARLY STAGE
1) Miracle plays
2) Morality plays
3) John Heywood
4) N. Udall
5) Thomas Sackville- Norton
II.UNIVERSITY WITS
1) C. Marlowe
2) T. Kyd
3) John Lyly
4) Greene
5) Nashe
6) Peele
III.Shakespeare
1) Shakespeare
2) Johnson
3) Chapman

4) Dekker
5) Beaumont- Fletcher
6) Thomas Heywood
7) John Webster
8) Cyril Tourner
IV Restoration
1) Wycherley
2) Congreve
3) Dryden
4) John Gay
5) Steele
V Classicists
1) Goldsmith
2) Sheridan
VI Modernists
1) G.B. Shaw
2) Oscar Wilde
3) Galsworthy
4) J.M. Synge
5) Sean Ocasey
6) Sir James Barne
7) T.S. Eliot
8) Christopher Fry
9) Noel Coward
VII Existentialists
1) Pinter
2) Beckett
3) Osborne
4) Arden
VIII Post Modernists
1) Bond
2) Sholagh Delaney
IX American Dramatists
1) Eugene ONeil
2) Tennesse Williams
3) Arthur Miller
4) Edward Albee
X Others
1) Pinero
2) Ionesco

3) Ibsen
4) Chekov
SHORT STORIES
1) Katherine Mansfield
2) OHenry
3) Saki
4) E.A. Poe
5) Natheniel Hawthorne
CRITICISM
1) Philip Sydney
2) Dryden
3) Pope
4) Dr. Johnson
5) Wordsworth
6) Coleridge
7) Keats
8) Shelley
9) Arnold
10) Walter Pater
11) I.A.Richards
12) F.R.Leavis
13) T.S.Eliot
14) Cleanth Brooks
15) Empson
16) Allen Tate
17) J.C. Ranson
18) Structuralists/ Post- Structuralists
19) Psycho analysts
20) Post-Modernists/ Post Colonialists
21) Stylists
22) New Historians
23) Feminists
PROSE
th

Till the 18 century

1) Thomas Malory
2) Francis Bacon
3) Thomas Browne
4) Jermy Taylor

5) Izaak Walton
6) John Milton
7) Dryden
8) John Locke
9) Pepys
10) John Evelyn
th

18 CENTURY
1) Addison/ Steele
2) Swift
3) Defoe
4) Dr. Johnson
5) Goldsmith
6) Edward Gibbon
7) Burke
8) Smith
ROMANTICISTS
1) 1.Coleridge
2) 2.Wordsworth
3) 3.Lamb
4) 4.Hazlitt
5) 5.De Quincey
6) 6.G.S. Mill
7) 7.T.B.Macaulay
8) 8.Thomas Carlyle
VICTORIANS
1) 1.G.H.Newman
2) 2. Ruskin
3) 3. R.L. Stevenson
MODERN
1) G.K.Chesterton
2) Lytton Strachey
3) E.V.Lucas
4) Robert Lynd

NOVEL
I.Originators
1.Philip Sidney
2.John Lyly
3.Thomas Nashe
4.Thomas Delaney
5.Thomas more
II.Developers
1.Bunyan
2.Defoe
3.Swift
III.Extenders
1.Richardson
2.Fielding
3.Smollett
4.Lawerence sterne
IV.Classicist
1.Dr.Johnson
2.Oliver Goldsmith
V.Romanticists
a)Gothics
1.Horace Walpole
2.William Beckford
3.Ann Radclif
4.Monk Lewis
5.Mary Shelley
b)Romances
1.Emily Bronte
2.Charlote Bronte
3.Jane Austen

c)Historical
1) Sir Walter Scott
VI.Victorians
a)Social
1.T.L.Peacock

(Mystery - Wilkie Collins)

2.Thackercey
3.Dickens
4.Trollope
5.Samuel Butler
6.G.Eliot
7.George Meredith
b)Regional
1.Thomas Hardy
c)Romanticists
1.H.G. Wells
2.R.L. Stevenson
3.Haggard
4.Doyle
5.Kipling
VII.Modernists
a)Coventional
1.John Galsworthy
2.Bennett
3.Maughum
4.Forster
5.Isher Wood
6.Ivy Compton -Burnett
7.Evelyn Waugh
b)Modern
1.Joyce
2.Woolf
3.Lawrence
4.Conrad
5.Greene
6.Golding

7.Aldous Huxley
8.G.Orwell
9.C.P. Snow
VIII.Post - Modernists
1.Lawrence Durell
2.Irish Murdoch
3.L.P.Hartley
4.Anthony Burgess
5.Doris Lessing
6.Muriel Spark
American Novelists
1.G.F. Cooper

Other Regions

2.Hawthorne

1.Cervants

3.Melville

2.Hugo

4.Mark Twain

3.Rousseau

5.Stephen Crane

4.Camu

6.Jack London

5.Kafka

7.Faulkner

6.Proust

8.Hemingway

7.Sastre

9.Arthur Driester

8.Tolstoy

10.Sinclair Lewis

9.Dostoevsky

11.F.S.Fitzgerald
12.Pearl.S.Buck
13.Steinbeck
14.Henry James
Post - Modern
1. Norman Mailer
2.Joseph Heller
3.James Jones
4.Saul Bellow
5.Malamud
6.Ralpph Ellison
7.James Baldwin
8.J.D.Salinger
9.John Barth
10.Tony Morrison
11.Sylvia Plath

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