Important Facts About English Literature.ppt

Important and interesting facts about English literature by Dr. Vipul V. Kapoor

1. Important Facts
About
English Literature
Dr. VipulV. Kapoor

2. Three Phases
•TheOldEnglishLiterature
(TheAnglo-SaxonPeriod–5
th
to11
th
Cen.)
•TheMedievalEnglishLiterature
(TheAnglo-NormanPeriod–12
th
to15
th
Cent.)
•EarlyModernEnglishLiterature
(16
th
to18
th
Cen.)
•LateModernEnglishLiterature
(19
th
Cen.tilldate)

3. Heroic Epic ‘Beowulf’ (975–1010) by an
unknown author.

4. ‘The Canterbury Tales’ (1476)
byGeoffrey Chaucer

5. •First Comedy: Ralph Roister Doister (1550) by
Nicholas Udall
•First Tragedy: Gorboduc (1561), by Thomas
Sackville and Thomas Norton

6. Essays: Francis Bacon 58 essays (1625)

7. ‘The Faerie Queene’ (1590, 1596) by Edmund Spenser
‘Paradise Lost’ (1567, 1574) by John Milton
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8. Daniel Defoe’s ‘Robinson Crusoe’ (1719)
Samuel Richardson’s ‘Pamela’ (1740/41)

9. Short Story: Sir Walter Scott's
The Two Drovers (1827)
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