ENGLISH LITERATURE

ANGLO SAXONS PERIOD

The Seaferer
Beowulf
a. Grendel –ate 30 warriors a night
b. 12 years of terror
c. Killed by Beowulf

GEOFFREY CHAUCER = “father of English literature”

The Nun’s Priest’s tale of Chanticleer and Pertelote
The Pardoner’s tale
Canterbury tales (29 pilgrims each telling their stories : 24 completed

SIR THOMAS MALORY

Le Morte d’ Arthur (The death of Arthur)
- HIC IACET ARTHURUS, REX QUONDAM REX QUE FUTURUS
- Here lies Arthur, King once, and King that will be

EDMUND SPENSER = “the poet’s poet”

The Faerie Queene

CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE = “Kit”

= known for tragic dramas
Tamburlaine
Dr. Faustus
The Passionate shepherd to his love

SIR WALTER RALEIGH = “history of the world”

The nymphs reply to the shepherd

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE – ANNE HATHAWAY

= 18 years old when married
= 52 years old when he died : April 23
Merchant of Venice (Shylock and Antonio)
= Sonnets: Poems of 14 lines
Sonnet 18 = poems of praise, love and despair Sonnet 116
Sonnet 29 = Immortalization of love and beauty

BEN JONSON
= next to Shakespeare for being the dramatist in the Elizabeth age
= his followers call themselves “ Sons of Ben”
= written on his tomb when he dies “ O Rare Ben Jonson”
Volpone – best play in English literature : about the fox named Volpone
Song / to Celia The Noble Nature
FRANCIS BACON
= the wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind
= first essayist in English literature
Of Studies : some foods are to tastes, some to be swallowed and some to be digested…

JOHN MILTON = 1652, he became blind

On his blindness Lycidas (poem)
Paradise Lost – the noblest, grandest poem in English Literature

SAMUEL PEPYS
Pepys’s Diary (1825)

JOHN DRYDEN = Poet

Antony and Cleopatra
All for Love
= Father of English Prose
The hind and the panther
= Represents the roman church as a “milk-white” hind

ALEXANDER POPE
Dunciad – epic of Dunces
Essay on man – he wrote at the age of 12 Pastorals – 16
An essay of Criticism – 23 The rape of the lock – 24
The translation of the Greek’s : ILIAD
= AGE of the POPE

JONATHAN SWIFT
Gullivers travel
Gulliver : Liliput

THOMAS GRAY
Elegy written in a Country Churchyard – 9 years in writing

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH
*The Child is the father of the man* = one of his famous line
= called “ The nature’s high priest” and “Pioneer”
= Lyrical Ballads = everyday “natural” life
The Solitary Reaper
She was a phantom of delight = the lyrics of the poem characterizes the poet’s wife Mary Hutchinson
= at the age of 73 he was made the “Poet Laureate”

ROBERT BROWNING and ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING = famous literary couples in English
literature
The Barretts of Wimpole Street = popular modern play
 RB : Memorabilia
The last Duchess

LEWIS CAROLL
Alice in Wonderland

ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON

Treasure Island

JOHN DONNE
Song

GEORGE HERBERT
Virtue

WILLIAM BLAKE
The lamb – from songs of Innocence
The Tyger – from songs of experience

ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON = baron

Crossing the Bar

GEORGE ORWELL = was the pen name chosen by Eric Arthur Blain
Shooting an Elephant

CHARLES DICKENS
Pickwick Paper
David Copperfield

AMERICAN LITERATURE

EDGAR ALLAN POE

The cask of Ammontillado JONATHAN EDWARDS
The Raven Freedom of the Will
El Dorado = defined poetry as the rhythmic
creation of beauty THOMAS PAINE
Common Sense
ROBERT FROST BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Mending Wall The Autobiography

LINDSAY KALIVALA
The congo Epic of Finland

WILLIAN FAULKNER VIRGIL

The tall men Sanctuary Aenid (Greece)
 MARGARET MITCHELL
SAMUEL CLEMENCE –MARK TWAIN (pen Gone with the Wind
name)
The prince and the pauper BRAM STOKER
Dracula
SYDNEY PORTER –O. HENRY (penname)
GEORGE ELIOT – MARY ANN EVANS (pen JOYCE KILNUR
name) The trees
Scylla’s Mariner
RAPLH WALTER EMERSON
WILLIAM ERNEST HENLEY Rodora : *If eyes is made for seeing…*
Invivtus : *I am the captain of my soul*
SARAH TEASDALE
ALEXANDRE DUMAS Barter
The Three Musketeers
HENRY
Psalm of Life

POETRY
a) Poem – rhymed
b) Blank Verse – unrhymed
c) Free Verse – no definite pattern

EPICS = Anonymous
1. Luciad –Portugal
2. Gilgamesh – Babylonian OTHER TERMS
3. Elcid – Spain 1. Elegy – songs for the dead
4. Beowulf – England 2. Quazimodo – hunchback in the Nortrodame
5. Song of Roland –France 3. Paranoid – highly suspicious
6. Divine Comedy – Italy (Inferno, Purgatoryo, 4. Mortimer Mouse – Mickey Mouse
Paradiso) 5. Psalms – Song for the church
7. Shanamah – Persia (Verdausi) 6. Ante-meridium – A.M.
7. Post Meridium – P.M.
8. Satire – plays about real life
QUOTATIONS 9. Folk-play – local…
1. A thing of beauty is a joy forever …
= John Keats MYTHOLOGY
ODE TO NIGHTINGALE 1. Narcissus – fell in love with himself
2. For the love of money is the root of all evil 2. Cupid – lover of psyche
… 3. Penelope – wife of Odysseus
= Bible, New Testaments 4. Calypso – nymph who fell in love with
3. Earth has no sorrow that Heaven can not Odysseus
heal 5. PYRAMUS –THISBE
= Thomas Moore 6. PYGMALION – GALATEA
4. Life is what we make it 7. Selene – Goddess of the Sky
 8. Aurora – Goddess of Dawn 2. Yen – Japan
9. Hebe – Goddess of Youth 3. Won –Korea
10. Aeoulian – Aeolus (based) 4. OTHER WORKS AND AUTHORS
11. ISHTAR – Babylonian goddess of beauty 5. Casino Royale – Ian flemming
12. ISIS – Egyptian goddess of beauty 6. Swiss family Robinson – Johann Rudolf
Wyss
PHOBIAS 7. Pilgrim’s Progress –John Bunyan
1. Myso – dirt 8. The little prince –Antoine de St. Exupery
2. Claustro – close places 9. The Wonderful wizard of Oz –Lyman Frank
3. Agora – open places Baum
4. Irithro – blushing 10. Oliver twist – Charles Dickens
5. Nicto – dark night 11. Alice adventure in wonderland – Lewis
6. Pyro – fire Caroll
7. Zoo – Animal 12. The prince – Noccolo Machiavelli
8. Micro –Small object 13. Pinocchio – Carlo Collodi
9. Patho – Diseases 14. The ugly duckling – Hans Christiaan
10. Triskaideka – 13 Anderson
11. Alto – high places 15. Ivanhoe – Sir Walter Scott
12. Sangre – Blood 16. Uncle Tom’s Cabin – Harriet Beecher Stowe
13. Cito – eating 17. The Cask of Amontillado –Edgar Allan Poe
18. Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austin
MONETARY UNITS 19. Madame Bovary – Gustave Flawked
1. Taka- Bangladesh