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OLD AN MIDDLE ENGLISH
A survey of English literature course or test will most likely begin with the oral traditions of Old and Middle English: Beowful The Canterbury tales the song of roland -
Edmun Spenser
the faerie Queene -
17th-CENTURY BRITISH LITERATURE
Writer´s plays and poems figure prominently in any English literature course. William Shakespeare -
John Donne
Holy sonnets -
John Milton
Lost Paradise -
Benjamin Franklin
Poor Richard´s Almanack -
Denis Diderot
Encyclopedie -
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner -
William Wordsworth
Poems, in Two Volumes (Poemas, en dos volúmenes, 1807) -
ROMANTIC PERIOD
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love and nature. Many of these authors found the world to be disappointing and had a melancholy bent to their works. John Keats -
Mary Shelley
Frankestein -
VICTORIAN AND MODERNIST BRITISH LITERATURE
The Victorian period, which lasted from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the twentieth century, writers as: Elizabeth and Robert Browning -
Lord Byron
Don Juan -
Mark Twain
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Lord Alfred Tennyson
Idylls of the King -
Robert Louis Stevenson
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde -
Virginia Woolfe
Mrs. Dalloway
