English literature

I. The Britons and The Anglo-Saxon Period ( from the beginnings- 1o66)
1. Anglo-Saxon Poetry Beowulf( saga), Bede
2. Anglo-Saxon Prose The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle ( King Alfreds period)
II. The Middle English Period (1066-1500)
1. Literature in Latin, French and English religious and secular dramas
2. John Wycliffe translation of the Bible
3. Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales
III. The Renaissance Elizabethan Period (16th century)
1. Sir Thomas More: Utopia
2. Poets: Wyatt and Surrey
3. Prose fiction: Sidney: Arcadia, Spencer: The Shepards Calendar
4. Drama: a.- Christopher Marlowe
b. - W. Shakespeare: - sonnets
- tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Julius Caesar, Hamlet
- comedies: A Midsummer Nights Dream
- historical plays: Macbeth, Henry VII
IV. Puritanism
1. John Milton: Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
2. John Bunyan
V. The Enlightenment Neoclassicism (restoration period)
1. Ben Jonson: The Duchess of Malfi, Volpone
2. William Congreve: The Way of the World
3. Alexander Pope: The Rape of the Lock, Messiah
4. Jonathan Swift: Gullivers travel
5. Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
6. Tobias Smollett: Humphry Clinker
7. Henry Fielding: Tom Jones
8. Samuel Richardson: Pamela
9. Laurence Sterne: Tristam Shandy
10. Oliver Goldsmith: The Vicar of Wakefield
11. Dr. Samuel Johnson
12. Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice, Emma, Sense and Sensibility
VI. Romanticism (18th century) reaction to neoclassicism
1. W. Wordsworth
2. S.T. Coleridge: The Rime of The Ancient Mariner
3. W. Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience
4. Shelley: Ozymandias, Ode to the West Wind
5. Keats: Ode on a Grecian Urn, To Autumn
6. Lord Byron: Don Juan
VII. The Victorian Period Victorianism or Realism
1. Charles Dickens: Great Expectations, Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Bleak House
2. W.M. Thackeray: Vanity Fair, The History of Henry Esmond
3. Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, The Professor
4. Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heights
5. George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy
6. Thomas Hardy: Tess of DUrbervilles, The Return of the Natives,
7. Samuel Butler

VII. Modernism and Postmodernism

1. Henry James: The Portrait of A Lady, Daisy Miller
2. Lewis Carol: Alices Adventures in Wonderland
3. Oscar Wild : The Importance of Being Earnest, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, The
Happy prince, The Devoted Friend, The Selfish Giant, The Model Millionaire
4. G.B. Shaw: The Devils Disciples, Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion
5. J. Conrad: Lord Jim, Heart of Darkness
6. Virginia Woolf: Mrs. Dalloway, To the Lighthouse
7. James Joyce: A Portrait of The Artist as A Young Man
8. T.S. Eliot: Waste Land
9. W. Golding: Lord of the Flies
10. John Osborne: Look Back in Anger
11. Salman Rushdie: Haround and the Sea of Stories, The New Yorker