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The History of English Literature

  • Period: 800 to 1000

    Beowulf

    The Anglo- Saxon epic. It is about a Vikin warrior fighting monster, ca 800-1000
  • The Canterbury Tales
    1380

    The Canterbury Tales

    24 short stories by Geoffrey Chaucer
  • Period: 1564 to

    William Shakespeare

    Wrote plays and sonnets, including: Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Macbeth and King Lear
  • Paradise

    Paradise

    Jhon Milton is a major poet from the 1600s, he wrote an epic poem about Lucifer and the first Genesis story
  • Robinson Crusoe

    Robinson Crusoe

    Daniel Defoe (Fake traveller's tale). It is a very popular novel as far back as 1719
  • Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels

    Jonathan Swift. It was a parody of travelers tale fantasy
  • Period: to

    Romantic Literature of Jane Austen

    Wrote several books
    Sense and sensibility, 1811
    Pride and Prejudice, 1813
  • Period: to

    The Romantic Poetry

    By William Wordworth, Jhon Keats, Lord Byron
  • Frankentein

    Frankentein

    Gothic Horror
  • Oliver Twist

    Oliver Twist

    Charles Dickens
  • Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heihts

    Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heihts

    Gothic Fiction: Charlote: Jane Eyre and Emily Bronte: Wuthering Heihts
  • Sherlock Holmes Series

    Sherlock Holmes Series

    By Arthur Conan Doyle
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    Oscar Wildes
  • Period: to

    The Science-Fiction

    The Time Machine, Invisible Man, The Island od Dr. Moreau
  • Dracula

    Dracula

  • Pygmalion

    Pygmalion

    George Bernard Shaw
  • James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

    James Joyce and Virginia Woolf

    Modernism and stream conciousness
  • The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

    The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings

    John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
  • Dystopian novels of George Orwell

    Dystopian novels of George Orwell

    Big Brother
  • Harry Potter Series

    Harry Potter Series

    J.K Rowling