Victorian : 1832-1901

Anglo Saxon : 450-1066

Elizabethan : 1558-1603
Renaissance : 1500-1660
Romantic age : 1798-1830
Romantic : 1798-1832
Modern : 1901-1939
Post Modern : 1939
Shakespeare: Elizabeth age (1564-1616)
Churchill got Nobel: 1953
Novel award introduced in Literature: 1901
TS Eliot born : 1888
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Age/Period
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Golden age: Elizabeth I age
Mid English Period: 1066-1500
Modern Poet: TS Eliot
Oldest Period: Anglo Saxon
Romantic Age Poet: J Keats, Wordsworth
Romantic Period: 1798-1830
Shakespeare lived: Elizabeth Reign
Victorian age Poet: Robert Browning
Victorian period: 19th century
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Types
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Shakespeare : Plays/Drama
Bertrand Russel : Philosopher(UK)
Charles Dickens : Novelist
Goethe (Poet) : Germany
O Henry famous : Short history
Same period belong : ST Colidge + Wordworth
Epic Poet :John Milton, Lord Tennyson
William Hazlitit : Essayist
Francis Bacon : Essayist
Lucy Poem : Wordsworth
Charles Lamb : Essayist
Lyciday : J Milton
George Barnard Shaw : Play Writer
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English Literary Terms:
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A Fantasy: Imaginary Story
Achilles: Greek Fighter
Ballad: Short narrative poem
Catastrophe: The tragic end of dramatic events
Lexicographer: Dictionary Writers
Limerick: Short form of light verse
Melodrama: Play: Violent & Sensational themes
Novel: Latin word
Ode - a lyric poem, often in the form of an address.
Opera – a musical drama.
Parody – imitation of a poem or a writing.
Penny dreadful – blood and thunder tales.
Plagiarism – act of stealing from the writing of others.
Protagonist – the leading character in a play / novel.
Rhetoric – the art of persuasive impressive speaking / writing.
Rhyme – short poem in same sound.
Satire - The literary art that uses honour and wit to attack and expose human folly and weakness.
Sonnet – a poem of fourteen lines.
Thrillers – sensational stories
Renaissance: The revival of life
Romantic Poetry feature: Subjectivity
Romanticism: Love & Beauty
To Daffodils: Short lived human life
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Books & writers Name
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A Brief History of Time-Stephen Hawking
A Farewell to Arms-Earnest Hemingway
A Long Walk to Freedom-Nelson Mandela
A Midsummer’s Nights Dream-William Shakespeare
A pair of Blue Eyes-Thomas Hardy
A Passage to India-E. M. Forster
Adonis-P. B Shelly
Akbar Nama-Abul Fazal
All’s Well that Ends Well-William Shakespeare
Andrea Del Sarto (Poem)-Browning
Animal Farm-George Orwell
Anna Karenina-Leo Tolstoy
Around the World in Eighty Days→ Jules Verne
As You Like it-William Shakespeare
Asian Drama-Gunner Myrdal
Blue Bird-Lord Alfred Tennyson
Caesar and Cleopatra-George Bernard Shaw
Canterbury Tales-Geoffrey Chaucer
Cesar and Cleopatra (Play)-G.B Shaw
Comedy of errors-Shakespeare
Crime and Punishment-Dostoevsky
Das Capital-Karl Mark
David Copperfield-Charles Dickens
Dialogues-Plato
Dictionary-Samuel Johnson
Discovery of India-Johor Lal Nehru
Divine Comedy-Dante
Don Juan-Lord Byron
Dr. Faustus-Christopher Marlowe
Emma-Jane Austen
For Whom the Bell Tolls-Earnest Hemingway
Freedom-Bertrand Russell
Friends not Masters- Gen Ayub Khan
God of the Small Things-Arundhuty Roy
Great Expectations-Charles Dickens
Gulliver’s Travels-Jonathan Swift
Hamlet- Shakespeare
Hamlet-William Shakespeare
Heaven and Earth-Lord Byron
If Winter comes (Poem)- Shelley
Iliad-Homer
In Memoriam-Lord Alfred Tennyson
India Wins Freedom-Abul Kalam Azad
Isabella-John Keats
Julias Caesar (Tragedy)- Shakespeare
Jungle Book-Rudyard Kipling
King Lear- Shakespeare (tragedy)
Kubla Khan- ST Coleridge
Leaves of Grass- Walt Whitman
Lycidas-John Milton
Macbeth-William Shakespeare
Main Kemp-Ad loaf Hitler
Man and Superman-George Bernard Shaw
Marriage and Moral-Bertrand Russell
Measure and Measure-William Shakespeare
Memories of the Second World War-Winston Churchill
Merchant of Venice (Comedy)- Shakespeare
Mother-Maxim Gorky
Ode to the West Wind-P.B Shelly
Odyssey-Homer
Of human bondage- Somerset Maugham
Oliver Twist-Charles Dickens
Origin of Species-Charles Darwin
Othello-William Shakespeare
Paradise Lost- J. Milton
Paradise Regained- Milton
Passage to India-E.M Forster
Pilgrim’s Progress-John Bunyan
Politics-Aristotle
Prelude-William Wordsworth
Pride and Prejudice- John Austin
Prince-Machiavelli
Rape of the Lock-Alexander Pope
Republic-Plato
Robinson Crusoe-Daniel Defoe
Romeo and Juliet-William Shakespeare
Roots-Alex Haley
Samson Agonists-John Milton Das
Scholar Gipsy-Matthew Arnold
Sense and Sensibility-Jane Austen
Seven Seas-Rudyard Kipling
Silent Women-Ben Jonson
Solitary Reaper- William Wordsworth
Songs of innocence- William Blake
Sons and Lovers, The Rainbow-D.H Lawrence
Tempest-William Shakespeare
Tess of the D’Urbervilles-Thomas Hardy
The 2nd world- Winston Churchill
The Alchemist-Ben Jonson
The diamond necklace (Short story)- Maupassant
The God of Small things- Arundhuti Roy
The Good Earth- Pearl S Buch (USA)
The Iliad- Homer
The Merchant of Venice-William Shakespeare
The new testament- John Wycliffe
The Old Man and The Sea-Earnest Hemingway
The picture of Dorain Gray- Oscar Wild
The Rainbow (Novel)- Lawrence
The Rape of the Lock-Alexander Pope
The Return of the Native-Thomas Hardy
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner-Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Animal Farm-George Orwell
The sacred flame- William Somerset Mengham
The Tale of Two Cities-Charles Dickens
The Taming of shrew- Shakespeare
The Time Machine- H.G Wells
The Waste Land (Poem)- TS Eliot
The Way of the World-William Congreve
Things Fall Apart-Chinua Achebe
Time Machine-H. W Wells
To Skylark-P. B Shelly
Tom Jones-Henry Fielding
Top Secret-Henry Fielding
Try and Try Again-W.E Hick son
Twelfth Night-William Shakespeare
Ulysses (Novel)- Jmaes Joyces
Utopia-Sir Thomas Moore
Vanity Fair-W.M Thackeray
Volpone-Ben Jonson
Voyage of Lilliput-Jonathon Swift
Waiting For Goddot-Samuel Becket
War and Peace-Leo Tolstoy
Wealth and Nation-Adam Smith
West Land-T.S Eliot
Wuthering Heights-Emile Bronte
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Character
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Adam - Paradise Lost - J Milton (Epic)
Alice - Lewis Carrol
Ancient Mariner - ST Colridge.
Cleopatra - Othello (Tragedy) - Shakespeare
Hctor - Illiard (Epic) - Homer
Ivanhoc - Ivanhoe - Walter Scott
James Bond - Ian Fleming
Jeeves - Woodhouse
Kim - Kipling
Machbeth - Machbeth (Tragedy) - Shakespeare
Micawber - David Coperfield - Charles Dickens
Oliver Twist - Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
Sherlock Homes - Conan Doyle (Novel)s
Shylock - The Merchant of Venice (Comedy ) - Shakespeare