Faculté des Sciences Humaines et Sociales de Tunis 3 rd Year

English Department Adel GRAMI

Course Outline
Survey of English Literature

Anglo-Saxon Literature
 Caedmon’s Hymn
 The Wife’s Complaint
 Beowulf

Medieval Literature
 Romance : Thomas Malory’s Le Morte D'Arthur
 Drama: Everyman
 Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales

Renaissance
 Context of the Renaissance: Humanism and Reformation
 Erasmus and Thomas More
 Sir Philip Sidney
 Edmund Spencer
 Elizabethan Drama
 The Age of Shakespeare
 The Jacobean Drama: Ben Jonson
 Metaphysical poetry

Neo-classicism
 Alexander Pope
 Samuel Johnson
 John Milton
 The rise of the novel