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    INTRODUCTION TO ENGLISH

    LITERATURE

    1. What is Literature?
    Literature refers to the practice and profession of

    writing. It comes from human interest in telling a


    story, in arranging words in artistic forms, in
    describing in words some aspects of human
    experiences.

    2. Why we read Literature?

    Pleasure
    Relaxation
    Knowledge

    3. Old English Period


    469 AD - 1066 AD

    Three conquests.
    The Song of Beowulf:

    Middle English Literature


    Bible translations,
    Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

    Renaissance Literature
    Vernacular Literature.
    William Caxton.
    Book of Common Prayer.

    Early Modern Period


    Elizabethan Era
    Jacobean Literature
    Caroline and Cromwellian Literature
    Restoration Literature
    Augustan Literature.

    Elizabethan Era
    William Shakespeare

    Hamlet,
    Romeo and Juliet,
    The Merchant of Venice
    Macbeth

    Jacobean Literature
    Post-Shakespeare.
    Dramatist Ben Jonson:

    Theory of Humors
    Beaumont and Fletcher
    The Knight of the Burning Pestle

    Caroline and Cromwellian Literature


    Commonwealth.
    Samuel Pepys.
    Great Plague.
    Great Fire of London.

    Restoration Literature
    John Milton:

    Paradise Lost
    The Country Wife
    Pilgrims Progress

    Augustan Literature
    Jonathan Swift:

    A Tale of a Tub
    Gullivers Travels

    18th Century
    Age of Enlightment.
    Age of Sensibility.
    Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

    Romanticism
    Industrialism.
    William Blake: Romantic Age
    Oscar Wilde
    Mary Shelley:

    Victorian Literature
    Charles Dickens.
    Arthur Conan Doyle: Sherlok Holmes

    English Literature since 1900


    Modernism: Rudyard Kipling, James Joyce, Virginia

    Woolf
    Post-Modern Literature: Truman Capote
    Post World War II: J.R.R. Tolkien

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