Part I Old English Literature (450-1066) 1.1 Historical Background 1.2 Literary Characteristics 1.3 Old English Poetry 1.3.1 The Religious Group 1.3.2 The Secular Group 1.3.3 Beowulf Part 2 Medieval English Literature (1066-1485) 2.1 Historical Background 2.2 Literary Characteristics 2.3 Major Writers & Representative Writings 2.3.1 Geoffrey Chaucer Part 3 English Renaissance (1485-1660) 3.1 Historical Background 3.2 Literary Characteristics 3.3 Major Writers & Representative Writings 3.3.1 Edmund Spenser 3.3.2 Christopher Marlowe 3.3.3 William Shakespeare 3.3.4 Francis Bacon 3.3.5 John Donne 3.3.6 John Milton 3.3.7 John Bunyan Part 4 English Neoclassicism (1660-1798) 4.1 Historical Background 4.2 Literary Characteristics 4.3 Major Writers and Representative Writings 4.3.1 Daniel Defoe 4.3.2 Alexander Pope 4.3.3 Jonathan Swift 4.3.4 Henry Fielding 4.3.5 Samuel Johnson 4.3.6 Richard Brinsley Sheridan 4.3.7 Thomas Gray Part 5 English Romanticism (1798-1832) 5.1 Historical Background 5.2 Literary Characteristic 5.3 Major Writers & Representative Writings 5.3.1 William Blake 5.3.2 William Wordsworth 5.3.3 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 5.3.4 George Gordon Byron 5.3.5 Percy Bysshe Shelly 5.3.6 John Keats 5.3.7 Jane Austen Part 6 The Victorian Age (1836-1901) 6.1 Historical Background 6.2 Literary Characteristics 6.3 Major Writers and Representative Writings 6.3.1 Charles Dickens 6.3.2 William Makepeace Thackeray 6.3.3 Charlotte Bronte and Emily Bronte 6.3.4 George Eliot 6.3.5 Alfred Tennyson 6.3.6 Robert Browning 6.3.7 Thomas Hardy Part 7 The Modern Period (1901 Onward) 7.1 Historical Background 7.2 Literary Characteristics 7.3 Major Writers & Representative Writings 7.3.1 George Bernard Shaw 7.3.2 John Galsworthy 7.3.3 William Butler Yeats 7.3.4 David Herbert Lawrence 7.3.5 Thomas Steams Eliot 7.3.6 James Joyce REFERENCES
