English literature

Old literature/Anglo-Saxon literature
1. Oral poetry
  1. Magic
  2. Short narratives
2. Common Germanic metre
3. Alliterative verse
  1. Linking the two halves of the line in poetry
4. Major manuscripts
5. Religious verse
6. Elegiac verse
7. Heroic verse
8. Early translations into English
9. Late 11th century prose
10. Authors
  1. Ælfric
    1. Catholic Homilies
    2. Lives of the Saints
    3. Latin grammar
  2. King Alfred
  3. Bede, The Venerable
    1. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
  4. Caedmon
    1. Caedmon's Hymn
Renaissance
1. Late Renaissance
2. Elizabethan period
  1. Prose fiction & lyric
  2. Robert Greene
  3. Thomas Lodge
  4. William Shakespeare
    1. Hamlet
    2. McBeth
    3. Romeo and Juliet
  5. George Gascoigne
  6. Edmund Spenser
  7. Characteristics
    1. Boys preforming female roles
    2. Masque
    3. Eavesdropping
    4. Presentational Acting Style
    5. Play Within A Play
    6. Stagecraft
3. Jacobean period
  1. Authors
    1. William Shakespeare
    2. John Webster
    3. Ben Johnson
4. Elizabethan period
  1. Authors
Middle literature
1. Poetry
  1. Influence of French poetry
  2. Didactic poetry
  3. Verse romance
  4. The lyric
2. Prose
  1. Compilations
3. Authors
  1. Dan Michel of Northgate
    1. Ayenbite of Inwit
  2. Richard Rolle
    1. The Commandment, Meditations on the Passion
    2. The Form of Perfect Living
  3. Walter Hilton
    1. Scale of Perfection
  4. Julian of Norwich
    1. Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
  5. *unknown*
    1. Cloud of Unknowing
Restoration Age
1. Poetry
  1. The English Epic
  2. Odes
2. Prose
  1. Translations
  2. Philosophical
  3. Religious
  4. Fiction
  5. Journalism
3. Theatre
  1. Drama
  2. Comedy
  3. Impressive
4. Authors
  1. Roger L'Estrange
    1. The Observator
  2. Charles Gildon
  3. Edmund Curll
20th Century literature
1. Modernism
2. Post-modernism
3. Authors
  1. Virginia Woolf
  2. Hugh MacDiarmid
  3. Aldous Huxley
  4. John Cowper Powys
18th Century literature
1. Age of Sensibility
2. Augustan literature
  1. James Thompson
    1. The Seasons
  2. Edward Young
    1. Night Thoughts
  3. Alexander Pope
  4. Poetry
    1. Pastoral poetry
  5. Prose
    1. Novel
    2. Journalism
3. Drama
Romanticism
1. Romantic poetry
2. 2nd generation
3. Romantic novel
4. Authors
  1. William Blake
  2. Mary Shelley
    1. Frankenstein
  3. John Keats
  4. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  5. Lord Byron
Victorian literature
1. Authors
  1. Tennyson
  2. Charles Dickens
    1. Moby Dick
    2. A Christmas Carol
2. Children's literature
3. Fiction
4. Poetry
5. Novel
6. Drama
Later Middle literature & Early Renaissance
1. Poetry
  1. Revival of alliterative poetry
  2. Courtly poetry
  3. Chaucer and Gower
  4. After Chaucer and Gower
2. Prose
  1. Religious
  2. Secular
3. Drama
  1. Transition from Middle Age to Renaissance
4. Autors
  1. Geoffrey Chaucer
    1. The Canterbury Tales
  2. John Gower
    1. Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis
    2. Confessio Amantis

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