BRITISH LITERATURE Historical Periods Old English literature AngloSaxon

BRITISH LITERATURE

Historical Periods § § § § § Old English literature (Anglo-Saxon) Middle English literature English Renaissance Period of Protectorate and the Restoration Classicism and Enlightenment Romanticism Critical Realism (Victorian Age) The first half of the 20 th century Modern British literature

Old English Literature n Beowulf n Caedmon (Caedmon´s Hymn) n Bede Venerabilis (Ecclesiastical …. )

Middle English Literature n n n Domesday Book (1083) – William´s tool to rule over all Britain Geoffrey Chaucer – The Canterbury Tales William Caxton – book-printer; his workshop in Westminster printed the most important books of the period

Renaissance n n n The interest shifted from God to a man Elizabethan period – flourishing of the colonial empair William Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Much Ado About Nothing…, The Sonnets) Christopher Marlow (The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus) Sir Thomas More – The Utopia (written in Latin about an island where people live in ideal peace and harmony)

Protectorate (1649 -1660) and Restoration ► John Milton: Paradise Lost (1663), Paradise Regained (1671) Milton supported the ideas of puritanism in literature ► Samuel Butler – a satirist ► John Donne – a poet

Classicism and Enlightenment ► Jonatan Swift – a great satirist; A Modest Proposal, Gulliver´s Travels ► Daniel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe ► Samuel Johnson – Dictionary of English Language (his phonetic symbols are used up -today) ► John Gay – a dramatist; Beggar´s Opera ► Alexander Pope – a great poet

Romanticism • William Blake – Songs of Innocence, Songs of • • Experience George Gordon Byron – Childe Harold´s Pilgrimage, Don Juan Percy Bysshe Shelley – Queen Mab, Prometheus Unbound Sir Walter Scott – Waverly, Ivanhoe, Rob Roy Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice (more realistic work though)

Realism § Charles Dickens – Oliver Twist, David Copperfield, Nicholas Nickleby Hard Times, Great Expectations § Emily Brontë – Wuthering Heights § Charlotte Brontë – Jane Eyre § Thomas Hardy – Tess of the D´Urbervilles § Robert Louis Stevenson – Treasure Island, Kidnapped, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde § Sir Arthur Conan Doyle – The Hound of the Baskervilles

The 1 st half of the 20 th c. l l Rudyard Kipling - The Jungle Book Virginia Wolfe – To the Lighthouse George Orwell – Animal Farm Thomas Stearns Eliot – The Waste Land

Modern British literature n n n n n Kingsley Amis – Lucky Jim William Golding – Lord of the Flies J. R. R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings David Lodge – Changing Places, The British Museum Is Falling Down Philip Larkin – a poet, The Less Deceived Ted Hughes Liverpool Poets: Brian Patten, Adrian Henri Samuel Beckett – Waiting for Godot Harold Pinter – The Birthday Party