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1. The birth of English literature.

The history of English Literature starts with the Anglo-Saxons and Germanic
settlers in Anglo-Saxon England in the 5th century, c.450. The oldest English
literature was in Old English which is the earliest form of English and is a set of
Anglo-Frisian dialects. Beowolf is the earliest and most popular work in Old English
Literature.

The most important 8 periods of English Literature are:

1. Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): 450–1066
2. Middle English Period: 1066-1500
3. The Renaissance: 1500-1600
4. The Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785
5. The Romantic Period: 1785-1832
6. The Victorian Age: 1832-1901
7. The Edwardian Period: 1901-1914
8. The Georgian Period: 1910-1936
9. The Modern Period: Early 20th century
10. The Postmodern Period: Mid-20th century

2. Philosophical aspects of W. Golding's creativity.

Golding contends that human nature, when free from the constraints of society, draws people
away from common sense to savagery. His fundamental arguments are that human beings are
savage by nature, and are moved by urges toward brutality and dominance over others.

3. "Tom Jones" G. Fielding.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, often known simply as Tom Jones, is a comic novel by
English playwright and novelist Henry Fielding. It is a Bildungsroman and a picaresque novel. It
was first published on 28 February 1749 in London and is among the earliest English works to be
classified as a novel.[1] It is the earliest novel mentioned by W. Somerset Maugham in his 1948
book Great Novelists and Their Novels among the ten best novels of the world.
The novel is highly organised despite its length. Samuel Taylor Coleridge argued that it has one
of the "three most perfect plots ever planned", alongside Oedipus Tyrannus and The Alchemist.[3]
It became a best seller with four editions published in its first year alone.[4] It is generally
regarded as Fielding's greatest book and as an influential English novel.