British Literature

'Piers Plowman', William Langland 'The Canterbury Tales', Geoffrey Chaucer 'Everyman' 'Utopia', Thomas More 'New Atlantis', Francis Bacon 'Gulliver's Travels', Jonathan Swift 'Looking Backward: 2000-1887', Edward Bellamy 'Brave New World', Aldous Huxley '1984', George Orwell 'The Faerie Queene', Edmund Spenser 'Sonnets', William Shakespeare 'The Jew of Malta', Christopher Marlowe 'The Tragical History of Dr Faustus', Christopher Marlowe 'Essays', Francis Bacon 'Songs and Sonnets', John Donne 'Paradise Lost', John Milton 'The Pilgrims Progress', John Bunyan 'Leviathan', Thomas Hobbes 'Hudibras', Samuel Butler Norman Conquest, William the Conqueror Magna Carta The Black Death Discovery of the New World Act of Supremacy Plague in London Gunpowder Plot Civil War The Great Plague Habeas Corpus The Bill of Rights Act of Settlement Corn Law Peterloo massacre Legalization of trade unions Great Reform Bill Closing of theatres 'An Essay on Man', Alexander Pope 'The Sublime and the Beautiful', Edmund Burke Theatres reopened 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding', John Locke 'Treatise of Human Nature', David Hume 'The Wealth of Nations', Adam Smith 'Rambler', Dr (Samuel) Johnson 'Robinson Crusoe', Daniel Defoe 'Pamela...', Samuel Richardson 'The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling', Henry Fielding 'Rights of Man', Thomas Paine 'Songs of Innocence', William Blake Preface to 'The Lyrical Ballads', Wordsworth 1790's sqq Samuel T Coleridge 'Biographia Literaria', Coleridge 'Dom Juan', Lord Byron 'Prometheus Unbound', Percy B Shelley 'Odes', John Keats 'The Mysteries of Udolpho', Ann Radcliffe 'Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde', R L Stevenson 'The Picture of Dorian Gray', O Wilde 'Dracula', Bram Stoker 'Frankenstein', Mary Shelley 'Confessions...', T De Quincey 'Pride and Prejudice', J Austen 'Ivanhoe', Walter Scott 'In Memoriam', Alfred Tennyson 'Poems', D G Rossetti 'The importance...', O Wilde 'Pygmalion', G B Shaw 'Jane Eyre', Charlotte Brontë 'Wuthering Heights', Emily Brontë 'Sybil...', Benjamin Disraeli 'Great Expectations', C Dickens 'Vanity Fair', W M Thackeray 'Middlemarch...', George Eliot 'Tess of the d'Urbervilles', T Hardy 'The Adventures...', A Conan Doyle 'Kim', Rudyard Kipling 'Alice...', L Carroll 'The Way of All Flesh', S Butler 'Second Coming' - W.B. Yeats 'Ulysses' - J. Joyce 'The Waste Land' - T.S. Eliot 'Heart of Darkness' - J. Conrad 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' - D.H. Lawrence 'The Power and the Glory' - G. Greene 'Orlando' - V. Woolf 'The Good Soldier' - F. Madox Ford 'Howards End' - E.M. Forster 'Lord of the Flies' - W. Golding 'The French L's Woman' - J. Fowles Old English Period Middle English Period (Medieval Period) The Renaissance (Tudor and Jacobean Literature) The Renaissance The Neoclassical Period - The Enlightenment (The Restoration) The Romantic Age The Victorian Age The Edwardian Period The Georgian Period The Modern Period The Postmodern Period Hundred Years' War War of the Roses William the Conqueror Henry VIII Elizabeth I James I Charles I Oliver Cromwell Charles II Victoria Edward VI Mary Tudor from the age of reason and public concerns... ...to the age of sensibility and private concerns 1st Generation: the cult of nature 2nd Gen°: poet as rebel The Depression Years