This file cover the following topics:
- THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD
- HISTORY (650-1100)
- POETRY
- Beowulf
- The Pagan Poems
- PROSE
- Venerable Bede (672-735)
- King Alfred (871-899)
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
- HISTORY (1066-1400)
- POETRY
- Pearl Poet
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (c 1400)
- Marie de France (c 1160-1215)
- PROSE
- THE AGE OF CHAUCER
- HISTORY (1350-1450)
- POETRY
- Geoffrey Chaucer (1343-1400)
- John Gower (1330-1408)
- William Langland (1332-1386)
- PROSE
- John Wycliffe (1320-1384)
- Julian of Norwich (c 1342-1416)
- Margery Kempe (1373-1438)
- FROM CHAUCER TO SPENSER
- HISTORY (1450-1550)
- POETRY
- Sir Thomas Malory (c 1415-1471)
- PROSE
- William Caxton
- Thomas More (1478-1535)
- Bible Translations
- RISE OF DRAMA
- THE MIRACLE PLAY
- Morality Plays
- Earliest Dramas
- THE AGE OF ELIZABETH
- HISTORY (1550-1630)
- POETRY
- Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)
- Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey (1516-1547)
- Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- Sir Walter Raleigh (1554-1618)
- John Donne (1572-1631)
- Drama
- Theatres and Troupes
- University Wits
- Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)
- George Peele (1556-1596)
- John Lyly (1554-1606)
- Robert Greene (1558-1592)
- Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)
- Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)
- William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
- HISTORIES
- Henry VI (c 1591)
- Richard III (c 1592)
- Richard II (c 1595)
- Henry IV (c 1598)
- Henry IV Part 2
- Henry V (c 1599)
- Henry VIII
- King John
- COMEDIES
- The Comedy of Errors
- The Taming of the Shrew (c 1592)
- Two Gentlemen of Verona (c 1589-92)
- Love’s Labour’s Lost
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Much Ado About Nothing
- As You Like It
- Twelfth Night (What You Will)
- The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
- TRAGEDIES
- Titus Andronicus
- Romeo and Juliet (c1597)
- Julius Caesar (c1599)
- Hamlet (c1602)
- Othello (c1604)
- King Lear (c1605)
- Antony and Cleopatra (c1607)
- Coriolanus (c1607)
- Timon of Athens (c1606)
- TRAGICOMEDIES
- Cymbeline
- The Merchant of Venice (c 1597)
- The Winter’s Tale
- PROBLEM PLAYS
- All’s Well That Ends Well (c1604)
- Measure for Measure (c1603)
- The Tempest (c1610)
- POEMS
- Venus and Adonis (1593)
- The Rape of Lucrece (1594)
- Shakespearean Sonnets (1609)
- POST-SHAKESPEAREAN DRAMA
- Ben Jonson (1572-1637)
- Francis Beaumont (1584-1616) and John Fletcher (1579-1625)
- George Chapman (1559-1634)
- Thomas Dekker (1572-1632)
- Thomas Middleton (1580-1627)
- Thomas Heywood (1570-1641)
- John Webster (c 1580-c 1634)
- PROSE
- Sir Francis Bacon (1561-1626)
- Roger Ascham (1515-1568)
- Richard Burton (1577-1640)
- THE AGE OF MILTON
- HISTORY (1630-1700)
- POETRY
- John Milton (1608-1674)
- METAPHYSICAL POETRY
- George Herbert (1593-1633)
- Richard Crashaw (1613-1649)
- Henry Vaughan (1622-1695)
- Abraham Cowley (1618-1667)
- Andrew Marvell (1621-1678)
- The Cavalier Poets
- Robert Herrick (1591-1674)
- Richard Lovelace (1618-58)
- Sir John Suckling (1609-42)
- DRAMA
- Philip Massinger (1583-1640)
- John Ford (1586-1639)
- James Shirley (1596-1666)
- PROSE
- Thomas Browne (1605-1682)
- William Davenant (1606-1668, poet and playwright)
- THE RESTORATION
- John Dryden (1631-1700)
- Samuel Butler (1612-80)
- Aphra Behn (c 1640-1689)
- RESTORATION COMEDY
- William Congreve (1670-1729)
- William Wycherley (1640-1715)
- George Etheridge (c 1635-91)
- Sir John Vanbrugh (1664-1726)
- Restoration Tragedies
- PROSE
- John Bunyan (1628-88)
- Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
- THE AGE OF POPE
- HISTORY (1700-1750)
- PROSE
- Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
- Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
- Richard Steele (1672-1729)
- Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)
- John Arbuthnot (1667-1735)
- POETRY
- Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- John Gay (1685-1732)
- THE AGE OF TRANSITION
- HISTORY (1740-1800)
- THE REACTIONARY SCHOOL
- Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)
- THE TRANSITIONAL POETS
- James Thomson (1700-48)
- Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)
- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- Thomas Percy (1729-1811)
- THE NEW SCHOOL
- Robert Burns (1759-1796)
- William Blake (1757-1827)
- THE RISE OF NOVELS
- Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
- Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
- Tobias Smollett (1721-1771)
- Laurence Sterne (1713-68)
- Horace Walpole (1717-97)
- Ann Radcliffe (1764-1823)
- Mathew Gregory Lewis (1775-1818)
- Frances Burney (1752-1840)
- THE HISTORIANS
- PROSE
- Edmund Burke (1729-97)
- William Godwin (1756-1836)
- DRAMA
- Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751-1816)
- THE RETURN TO NATURE
- HISTORY (1790-1830)
- POETRY
- William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Lord Byron (1788-1824)
- Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
- John Keats (1795-1821)
- Robert Southey (1774-1843)
- Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
- NOVELISTS
- Mary Shelley (1797-1851)
- Walter Scott (1771-1832)
- Jane Austen (1775-1817)
- Maria Edgeworth (1767-1849)
- Thomas Love Peacock (1785-1866)
- Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
- Thomas de Quincey (1785-1859)
- William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
- THE VICTORIAN AGE
- HISTORY (1830-1890)
- Queen Victoria (1819-1901)
- Oxford Movement
- WORLD LITERATURE
- POETRY
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- Robert Browning (1812-1889)
- Elizabeth Barret Browning (1806-1861)
- Mathew Arnold (1822-1888)
- Edward Fitzgerald (1809-83)
- Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood (1848)
- Dante Gabriel Rosetti (1828-82)
- Christina Rosetti (1830-94)
- William Morris (1834-96)
- Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)
- THE NOVELISTS
- Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
- William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)
- Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)
- Emily Bronte (1818-1848)
- Anne Bronte (1820-1849)
- George Eliot (1819-1880)
- George Meredith (1828-1909)
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804-1881)
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873)
- Charles Reade (1818-1884)
- Anthony Trollope (1815-1882)
- Wilkie Collins (1824-1849)
- Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)
- R D Blackmore (1825-1900)
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
- Francis Bret Harte (1836-1902)
- Elizabeth Gaskell (1810-1865)
- Lewis Carroll (1832-1898)
- PROSE
- Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
- Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800-1859)
- Walter Pater (1839-1894)
- James Anthony Froude (1818-94)
- THE BIRTH OF MODERN LITERATURE
- HISTORY (1890-1918)
- THE NOVELISTS
- Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
- Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
- H G Wells (1866-1946)
- Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
- George Moore (1852-1933)
- Arnold Bennett (1867-1931)
- Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930)
- Saki (1870-1916)
- DRAMA
- George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
- John Millington Synge (1871-1909)
- Irish Literary Revival
- Henry Arthur Jones (1851-1929)
- John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
- Sir W S Gilbert (1836-1911)
- Oscar Wilde (1856-1900)
- Sir J M Barrie (1860-1937)
- POETS
- WB Yeats (1865-1939)
- Robert Bridges (1844-1930)
- John Masefield (1878-1967)
- Georgian Poets
- IMAGISM
- Dymock poets
- THE DECADENTS
- POETS OF WORLD WAR I
- Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)
- Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967)
- Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)
- PROSE
- G K Chesterton (1874-1936)
- A C Bradley (1851-1935)
- THE INTER-WAR YEARS
- HISTORY (1918-1939)
- George VI (1936-1952)
- World War II (1939-1945)
- THE NOVELISTS
- D H Lawrence (1885-1930)
- James Joyce (1882-1941)
- Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
- E M Forster (1879-1970)
- Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)
- Dorothy Richardson (1873-1957)
- May Sinclair (1863-1946)
- VORTICISM
- Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957)
- Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)
- Robert Graves (1895-1985)
- Ford Madox Ford (1873-1939)
- Bram Stoker (1847-1912)
- Sylvia Townsend Warner (1893-1978)
- David Garnett (1892-1981)
- Christopher Isherwood (1904-1986)
- Richard Hughes (1900-1976)
- POETRY
- Gerald Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
- TS Eliot (1888-1965)
- W H Auden (1907-1973)
- Stephen Spender (1909-1977)
- Cecil Day-Lewis (1904-1972)
- Louis MacNeice (1907-1963)
- Dame Edith Sitwell (1887-1964)
- Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
- DRAMA
- Sean O’Casey (1884-1964)
- JB Priestly (1894-1984)
- PROSE
- Lytton Strachey (1880-1932)
- Bertrand Russell (1872-1970)
- IA Richards (1893-1979)
- FR Leavis (1895-1978)
- Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
- GM Trevelyan (1876-1962)
- CONTEMPORARY BRITISH LITERATURE (1945-)
- NOVEL
- THE BOOKER PRIZE
- Sci-fi novelists
- John Wyndham (1903-1969)
- Brian Aldiss (1925-2017)
- Fred Hoyle (1915-2010)
- JG Ballard (1930-2009)
- Sir Arthur C Clarke (1917-2008)
- Graham Greene (1904-1991)
- Cecil Scott “CS” Forester (1899-1966)
- Evelyn Waugh (1903-1966)
- Anthony Powell (1905-2000)
- Lawrence Durrell (1912-1990)
- ANGRY YOUNG MEN
- THE MOVEMENT
- Sir Kingsley Amis (1922-1995)
- Alan Sillitoe (1928-2010)
- Sir William Golding (1911-1993)
- P H Newby (1918-1997)
- Muriel Spark (1918-2006)
- Iris Murdoch (1919-1999)
- Mervyn Peake (1911-1968)
- J R R Tolkien (1892-1973)
- George Orwell (1903-1950)
- Anthony Burgess (1917-1993)
- Julian Barnes (1946- )
- Arthur Koestler (1905-1983)
- Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989)
- James Kelman (1946- )
- Caryl Phillips (1958-)
- Elias Canetti (1905-1994)
- Angela Carter (1940-1992)
- Sir Malcolm Bradbury (1932-2000)
- Patrick Kavanagh (1904-1967)
- Joyce Cary (1988-1957)
- Agatha Christie (1890-1976)
- Jeanette Winterson (1959-)
- David Story (1933-2017)
- Malcom Lowry (1909-1957)
- John Fowles (1926-2005)
- Sir Salman Rushdie (1947-)
- J G Farrell (1935-1979)
- Hilary Mantel (1952- )
- Peter Ackroyd (1949-)
- William Boyd (1952-, English)
- David Mitchell (1969-, English)
- J K Rowling (1965- )
- Martin Amis (1949- )
- Doris Lessing (1919-2013)
- Graham Swift (1949-)
- Zadie Smith (1975-)
- Ian McEwan (1948-)
- VS Naipaul (1932- )
- A S Byatt (1936- )
- Kazuo Ishiguro (1954- )
- Alasdair Gray (1934- )
- David Lodge (1935- )
- POETS
- Philip Larkin (1922-1985)
- Seamus Heaney (1939-2013)
- Ted Hughes (1930-1998)
- Christopher Fry (1907-2005)
- Roy Fuller (1912-1991)
- Thom Gunn (1929-2004)
- Alfred Noyes (1880-1958)
- Dylan Thomas (1914-1953)
- Sir John Betjeman (1905-1984)
- Sir Andrew Motion (1952-)
- Carrol Ann Duffy (1955-)
- Paul Muldoon (1951- )
- DRAMA
- Harold Pinter (1930-2008)
- Samuel Beckett (1906-1989)
- Sir Tom Stoppard (1937- )
- Alan Bennett (1934- )
- Sir Arnold Wesker (1932-2016)
- John Osborne (1929-1994)
- Edward Bond (1934- )
- Caryl Churchill (1938- )
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