An Overview of Topics and Authors
Background to Topics (1) to (3): The Middle Ages
(1) Anglo-Saxon England
- Anglo-Saxon Culture, Old English Poetry: St Augustine of Canterbury, the Venerable Bede, "Caedmon's Hymn", "The Wanderer", "The Battle of Maldon", Beowulf, King Alfred the Great, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
(2) Anglo-Norman England
- Celtic Legends: Marie de France, Chrétien de Troyes
- Romance, Arthurian Legend, Legendary Histories: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace, Layamon, the Gawain Poet, Thomas Malory, William Langland
(3) Geoffrey Chaucer
Background to Topics (4) and (5): The Sixteenth Century
- Historical Chronology, Renaissance and Humanism, the Reformation, the English Bible, Court Culture, Literacy and Writing, Tudor Style, the Elizabethan Theatre
(4) Edmund Spenser
(5) Tudor Literature
- John Skelton, Thomas More, Thomas Wyatt, Henry Howard, Walter Ralegh, Philip Sidney, Mary Sidney, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd
Background to Topics (6) to (10): The First Half of the Seventeenth Century
- Historical Chronology, Politics and Religion, Philosophy and Science, Literature Promoters, Literature Writers
(6) William Shakespeare
(7) Jacobean Literature
- Ben Jonson, John Webster, John Fletcher, Francis Beaumont, Thomas Middleton, George Chapman
(8) The Metaphysical Poets
- John Donne, Lancelot Andrewes, Andrew Marvell, John Suckling, George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan
(9) John Milton
(10) Seventeenth-Century Philosophy and Science
- New Genres: Autobiography and Biography, Essay and Treatise
- Francis Bacon, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Browne, John Locke, Isaac Newton
Background to Topics (11) to (20): General Background to Literature between 1660 and 1790
- Historical Chronology, Society and Philosophy, Literature
(11) Restoration Drama
- Comedy: George Etherege, William Wycherley, Aphra Behn, John Vanbrugh, William Congreve, George Farquhar
- Tragedy: Nahum Tate, John Dryden, Thomas Otway, William Congreve
(12) Restoration Poetry and Prose
- Poetry: John Dryden, John Wilmot (Earl of Rochester)
- Autobiography: Margaret Cavendish, Samuel Pepys, John Bunyan
- Satire: Samuel Butler
Background to Topics (13) to (15): The First Half of the Eighteenth Century
- Satire, Prose, Drama, Poetry
(13) Daniel Defoe
(14) Jonathan Swift
(15) Alexander Pope
Background to Topics (16) to (20): The Second Half of the Eighteenth Century
- Poetry, Prose, the Novel
(16) Eighteenth-Century Prose
- the Periodical Essay: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
- the Novel: Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, Laurence Sterne, Tobias Smollett, Oliver Goldsmith
(17) Eighteenth-Century Drama
- Sentimental Comedy: Richard Steele, Joseph Addison
- Satirical Comedy: John Gay, Henry Fielding
- Comedy of Manners: Oliver Goldsmith, Richard Brinsley Sheridan
(18) Eighteenth-Century Poetry
- Satirical Poetry: John Gay
- the Graveyard School: Thomas Gray, Oliver Goldsmith
- the Medieval Revival: Thomas Percy, James Macpherson, Thomas Chatterton
- Personal Poetry: James Thomson, William Cowper, George Crabbe
(19) Samuel Johnson
(20) Late Eighteenth-Century Novel
- Sense and Sentiment: Charlotte Smith, Frances Burney
- Gothicism: Edmund Burke, Horace Walpole, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Gregory Lewis, Mary Shelley
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