English literature

English literature

1. Old literature/Anglo-Saxon literature

   • Oral poetry
     • Magic
     • Short narratives
   • Common Germanic metre
   • Alliterative verse
     • Linking the two halves of the line in poetry
   • Major manuscripts
   • Religious verse
   • Elegiac verse
   • Heroic verse
   • Early translations into English
   • Late 11th century prose
   • Authors
     • Ælfric
       • Catholic Homilies
       • Lives of the Saints
       • Latin grammar
     • King Alfred
     • Bede, The Venerable
       • Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
     • Caedmon
       • Caedmon's Hymn

2. Renaissance

   • Late Renaissance
   • Elizabethan period
     • Prose fiction & lyric
     • Robert Greene
     • Thomas Lodge
     • William Shakespeare
       • Hamlet
       • McBeth
       • Romeo and Juliet
     • George Gascoigne
     • Edmund Spenser
     • Characteristics
       • Boys preforming female roles
       • Masque
       • Eavesdropping
       • Presentational Acting Style
       • Play Within A Play
       • Stagecraft
   • Jacobean period
     • Authors
       • William Shakespeare
       • John Webster
       • Ben Johnson
   • Elizabethan period
     • Authors

3. Middle literature

   • Poetry
     • Influence of French poetry
     • Didactic poetry
     • Verse romance
     • The lyric
   • Prose
     • Compilations
   • Authors
     • Dan Michel of Northgate
       • Ayenbite of Inwit
     • Richard Rolle
       • The Commandment, Meditations on the Passion
       • The Form of Perfect Living
     • Walter Hilton
       • Scale of Perfection
     • Julian of Norwich
       • Sixteen Revelations of Divine Love
     • *unknown*
       • Cloud of Unknowing

4. Restoration Age

   • Poetry
     • The English Epic
     • Odes
   • Prose
     • Translations
     • Philosophical
     • Religious
     • Fiction
     • Journalism
   • Theatre
     • Drama
     • Comedy
     • Impressive
   • Authors
     • Roger L'Estrange
       • The Observator
     • Charles Gildon
     • Edmund Curll

5. 20th Century literature

   • Modernism
   • Post-modernism
   • Authors
     • Virginia Woolf
     • Hugh MacDiarmid
     • Aldous Huxley
     • John Cowper Powys

6. 18th Century literature

   • Age of Sensibility
   • Augustan literature
     • James Thompson
       • The Seasons
     • Edward Young
       • Night Thoughts
     • Alexander Pope
     • Poetry
       • Pastoral poetry
     • Prose
       • Novel
       • Journalism
   • Drama

7. Romanticism

   • Romantic poetry
   • 2nd generation
   • Romantic novel
   • Authors
     • William Blake
     • Mary Shelley
       • Frankenstein
     • John Keats
     • Percy Bysshe Shelley
     • Lord Byron

8. Victorian literature

   • Authors
     • Tennyson
     • Charles Dickens
       • Moby Dick
       • A Christmas Carol
   • Children's literature
   • Fiction
   • Poetry
   • Novel
   • Drama

9. Later Middle literature & Early Renaissance

   • Poetry
     • Revival of alliterative poetry
     • Courtly poetry
     • Chaucer and Gower
     • After Chaucer and Gower
   • Prose
     • Religious
     • Secular
   • Drama
     • Transition from Middle Age to Renaissance
   • Autors
     • Geoffrey Chaucer
       • The Canterbury Tales
     • John Gower
       • Mirour de l'Omme, Vox Clamantis
       • Confessio Amantis