History of English Literature
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* The Old English Period (Anglo-Saxon Period) 450-1066
* Middle English Period 1066-1500
* Renaissance 1500-1600
* Neoclassical Period 1700-1715
* Romantic Period 1735-1834
* Victorian Age 1832-1901
* Edwardian Period 1901-1914
* Georgian Period 1916-1936
* Modern Period Early 20th century
* Postmodern Period Mid-20th century
Main Section:
Major Periods of English Literature
* The Classical Period 1200 BCE-455 CE
* Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800)
* Classical Greek Period (800-200)
* Classical Roman Period (200)
* Patristic Period (70 CE-455 CE)
* The Medieval Period 455 CE-1485 CE
* The Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period)
* The Middle English Period
* The Renaissance and Reformation 1485-1660 CE
* Early Tudor Period (1485-1558)
* Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
* Jacobean Period (1603-1625)
* Caroline Age (1625-1649)
* Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum (1649-1660)
* The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period 1660-1790 CE
* Restoration Period (1660-1700)
* The Augustan Age (1700-1750)
* The Age of Johnson (1750-1790)
* The Romantic Period 1790-1830 CE
* [Romantic Poets and Gothic Writings]
* The Victorian Period and the 19th Century 1832-1901 CE
* [Sentimental Novels and Intellectual Movements like Aestheticism and the Decadence]
* The Modern Period 1914-1945 CE
* [Modern Writers, Realism, etc.]
* The Post-modern Period 1945-onward
* [Metafiction, Multiculturalism, Magic Poetry, etc.]
Old English Period
* Poetry
* Beowulf
* The Seafarer
* Caedmon's Hymn
* Prose
* Bede's History of The English Church and People
* The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
* Famous Writers: Cynowulf and Caedmon
Middle English Period
* Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)
* The Canterbury Tales (জরাময়ের পরিত্রাণের আর্তি বিষয়বস্তু)
* Father of English Poetry
* John Wycliffe - Father of English Prose
* Ralph Roister Doister - First comedy written by Nicholas Udall
* Gorboduc - First tragedy written by Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton
* Thomas Wyatt & Earl of Surrey - আধুনিক ইংরেজী কাব্যের প্রবর্তক
Elizabethan Age
* Era of Renaissance and Reformation (16th-17th century)
* Edmund Spencer
* Faerie Queene - তাঁর শ্রেষ্ঠতম সৃষ্টি
* Amoretti - তাঁর উল্লেখযোগ্য নিদর্শন
* My Love is Like to Ice - (Love has the ability to change the way a person thinks of logical order)
* Easter (Sonnet #68) - (The poet reflects to his beloved that they should take their lesson from Christ and practice love towards one another)
* Philip Sydney
* Astrophel and Stella & Loving in Truth (কবি তার প্রেমিকাকে মুগ্ধ করতে ভালোবাসার গভীরতাকে প্রকাশ পায়)
* Leave me, O Love (The poet seeks for heavenly love which will make his soul immortal and deathless)
* Francis Bacon
* Novum Organum - তাঁর বিখ্যাত গল্প (It outlined a more scientific approach to understand the natural world)
* Of Studies
* Of Friendship [essay]
* University Wits
* John Lyly, Robert Greene, George Peele, Thomas Kyd, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, Thomas Lodge
* Robert Greene - Father of Romantic Comedy
* Christopher Marlowe - প্রথম blank-verse এর ব্যবহার দেখিয়েছেন
* The Unfortunate Traveller - Thomas Nashe এর লেখা - First Picaresque Novel in English
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
Shakespeare explains how people tend to fall in love with those who appear beautiful.
• A Midsummer Night's Dream
• Macbeth
• As You Like It
• Twelfth Night
• Julius Caesar
• Hamlet
• Othello
• King Lear
• Antony and Cleopatra
• Comedy of Errors
• The Tempest
• Venus and Adonis (প্রেম ও কামনা)
• 154 Sonnets (1-116) to his beloved friend, Wm. Witt (probably, the Earl of Southampton)
(127-152) to a dark lady
• Sonnet No. 18: Shall I compare thee to a Summer's Day?
(কবি তার প্রিয় বন্ধুর যৌবনকে নিরাপত্তা দিতে চেয়েছেন)
• Sonnet No. 73: That Time of Year thou mayst in me Behold.
(love is everlasting but can't stop the natural process of death)
• Sonnet No. 129: The expense of Spirit in a waste of shame
(physical and psychological devastation of "lust")
The Jacobean Period and Caroline - Puritan Age
Ben Jonson (1573-1637)
• comedy of Humours এর প্রবর্তক
• Every Man in His Humour most successful play
• Every Man out of His Humour
John Donne (1571/72 - 1631)
• The Good-Morrow
• The Canonization
• The Rising Sun
• তিনি Metaphysical School of Poetry এর উদ্ভাবক
Andrew Marvell (1621-78)
• To His Coy Mistress
• Bermudas
আরও Metaphysical poets - George Herbert, Richard Crashaw, Henry Vaughan
John Milton (1608-1674)
• Ode on the morning of Christ's Nativity - ওনার প্রথম কাব্য কবিতা
• Paradise Lost (6K1)-(12th Book) (blank verse এ প্রথম)
• Paradise Regained
• O Nightingale - প্রথম Sonnet
Restoration Period (1660-183)
* Comedy of Manners এর প্রবর্তক - Sir George Etherage
* William Congreve (1670-1910)
* Comedy of Manners এর শ্রেষ্ঠ রচয়িতা
* The Way of the World - কেন্দ্রটি (It explores the human tenant get what they want through willingness to get whatever means)
* John Dryden (1631-170) এই যুগের বিখ্যাত
* Historie Stuures on the Death of Oliver Cromwell - প্রথম কবিতা
* Absalom and Achitephel - Dryden এর শ্রেষ্ঠ Satire
* Mac Flecknoe (mock heroe satire)
Eighteenth Century (Neo Classical) - The Age of Transition
Prose
* Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
* Gulliver's Travels - (A political satire)
* A Tale of a Tub - best work
* Joseph Addison (1672-1719)
* Sir Roger in Westminster Abbey
* Coffee House Debates
* Richard Steele (1672-1729)
* The Art of Story Telling
* On Judicious Flattery
* The Funeral - best prose comedy
* Daniel Defoe (1661-1781)
* Robinson Crusoe - বিখ্যাত
* Moll Flanders
* Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)
* Pamela or Virtue Rewarded - প্রথম উপন্যাস। তাকে উপন্যাসের জনক বলা হয়
* Clarissa Harlowe - Novel
* Henry Fielding (1707-54)
* Joseph Andrews - Novel (1st)
* Tom Jones - greatest novel of his
* Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1781-1816)
* The Rivals - drama
* Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774) - Transitional poet
* She Stoops to Conquer - second play
* The Good-Natur'd Man - first play
* The Traveller - first poem
* The Deserted Village - poem
* James Thomson (1700-48) - Transitional poet
* The Seasons - blank verse
* Liberty - blank verse
* Thomas Gray (1716-71) - Transitional Poet
* Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
* William Collins (1721-1759) - Transitional Poet
* Ode to Evening
* Persian Eclogues
* William Blake (1757-1827)
* Songs of Innocence (1789)
* Songs of Experience (1794)
* The Echoing Green
* The Garden of Love
* Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
* An Essay on Criticism - Mock epic (Aristotle এর Form এর অনুসরণ করে)
* The Rape of the Lock - Mock epic (ব্যঙ্গাত্মক Lord Petre)
Romantic Age (1798-1832)
* lyrical ballad গ্রন্থ প্রকাশের মাধ্যমে এই যুগের সূচনা।
* Sir Walter Scott এর মৃত্যু (1832)
* William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
* An Evening Walk - তাঁর প্রথম কবিতা
* Lyrical Ballads (Coleridge এর সাথে যৌথভাবে)
* Michael - (পিতৃহৃদয়ের ট্র্যাজিক আবেদন)
* The Prelude - শ্রেষ্ঠ রচনা
* Lucy Poems
* To a Skylark - (Skylark আজ মহান শিল্পের প্রতীক)
* Tintern Abbey
* Resolution and Independence
* The Leech Gatherer
* Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
* Kubla Khan
* Christabel
* Biographia Literaria
* This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
* Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)
* Prometheus Unbound - (Play)
* Adonais - (John Keats এর অকালমৃত্যুতে রচিত)
* Ode to the West Wind
* The Defence of Poetry
* Ode to a Skylark
* George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824)
* Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
* The Giaour - বিখ্যাত কাব্য (Mock epic ও)
* Don Juan
* John Keats (1795-1821)
* Endymion
* To a Nightingale (Ode)
* Ode to Autumn
* Ode on a Grecian Urn
* Hyperion and The Fall of Hyperion
* Walter Scott (1771-1832)
* The Lay of the Last Minstrel - প্রথম বড় কাব্য
* ঐতিহাসিক উপন্যাস রচনার জনক
* Ivanhoe
* Waverley Novels - প্রথম উপন্যাস
* Charles Lamb (1775-1834)
* Elia - ছদ্মনাম
* The Superannuated Man (প্রবন্ধ)
* Old China
* The Praise of the Chimney Sweepers
* Tales from Shakespeare (Mary Lamb এর সহযোগিতায়)
* William Hazlitt (1778-1830)
* On Genius and Common Sense
* On the Fear of Death
* Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859)
* Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
* The English Mail Coach
* Jane Austen (1775-1817)
* Pride and Prejudice
* Emma
* Mansfield Park
* Victorian Period (1832-1901)
* Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
* Poems by Two Brothers - প্রথম কাব্যগ্রন্থ
* The Lotus Eaters - বিখ্যাত কবিতা
* Ulysses
* Robert Browning (1812-1889) (dramatic monologue ব্যবহার)
* Porphyria's Lover
* My Last Duchess
* The Last Ride Together
* Fra Lippo Lippi
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)
* Prometheus Bound
* How Do I Love Thee?
* If Thou Must Love Me
* Matthew Arnold (1822-88)
* Dover Beach
* To Marguerite
* Pre-Raphaelite Movement - 1848 এ কয়েকজন তরুণ শিল্পী ও পণ্ডিত শিল্পের সাজানুগতিকতার বিরুদ্ধে যে আন্দোলন শুরু করেন...
* Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)
* The Blessed Damozel
* Rose Mary (ballad)
* Christina Georgina Rossetti (1830-94)
* Goblin Market and Other Poems
* The Prince's Progress and Other Poems
* Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-82)
* Outre-Mer
* Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889)
* Pied Beauty
* Binsey Poplars
* Charles Dickens (1812-70)
* Oliver Twist - (Novel)
* David Copperfield - (Biographical Novel)
* Hard Times - (a satirical exposure of the evils of industrialism and the excessive love for money and the worship of machinery)
* Great Expectations
* Thomas Hardy (1840-1928)
* Far from the Madding Crowd - (Novel)
* Mayor of Casterbridge
The Brontës
* Charlotte Brontë (1816-55)
* The Professor - First Novel
* Jane Eyre - Greatest Novel
* Emily Brontë
* Wuthering Heights - Unique Novel
* Anne Brontë
* Agnes Grey
* The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
* George Eliot (1819-1880) - (Novel)
* Scenes of Clerical Life
* Adam Bede
* Middlemarch
* আসল নাম Mary Ann Evans
* Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-94)
* Treasure Island - বিখ্যাত
* The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
Prose
* Thomas Carlyle (1795-1881)
* French Revolution
* Past and Present
* Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-82)
* Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
* The Importance of Being Earnest
* The Selfish Giant
* The Happy Prince
* The Modern Period (1914-1948), The Post Modern Period
* George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
* Arms and the Man - (Play)
* Candida
* The Devil's Disciple
* John Millington Synge (1871-1909) - (Play)
* The Riders to the Sea
* The Shadow of the Glen
* John Galsworthy (1867-1933)
* Justice
* Strife
* William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
* Sailing to Byzantium
* Second Coming
* The Tower
* Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888-1965)
* Journey of the Magi
* The Hollow Men
* The Four Quartets
* Wilfred Owen (1893-1918) - (War-poet)
* Anthem for Doomed Youth
* Insensibility
* Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967) - (War-poet)
* The Old Huntsman
* The Heart's Journey
* James Joyce (1882-1941) - (Novel) (Stream of consciousness)
* A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
* Ulysses
Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)
* Mrs. Dalloway
* To the Lighthouse - বিখ্যাত
* The Waves - শ্রেষ্ঠ
(Novel)
D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)
* The White Peacock - প্রথম উপন্যাস
* Odour of Chrysanthemums - (short story)
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)
* The Secret Sharer
* Youth - (Romantic Novel)
W. Somerset Maugham
* Of Human Bondage - বিখ্যাত
* The Painted Veil
Dylan Thomas
* Fern Hill
* Do not go gentle into the good night.
Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)
* Look Stranger
* No Man's Enemy
* The Cranes
Ted Hughes
* Thought Fox
* Hawk in the Rain
Seamus Heaney
* Digging
* Casualty
Ezra Pound (1885-1972)
* In a Station of the Metro
* A Girl
Harold Pinter
* The Room (Play)
Graham Greene
* The Quiet American
The Indian Period (Pre and Post Independence)
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio
* My country! in thy day of glory past
* To the Pupils of Hindu College
Kamala Das
* My Grandmother's House
* The Stone Age
A.K. Ramanujan
* Snakes
* Epitaph on a Street Dog
Jayanta Mahapatra
* Hunger
Agha Shahid Ali
* Postcard from Kashmir
* The Seasons of the Plains
Mahesh Dattani
* Tara
Girish Karnad
* Hayavadana
Mulk Raj Anand
* Untouchable
Amitav Ghosh
* The Hungry Tide
