FAMOUS WRITERS & THEIR WORK
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period):
writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf.
work: Beowulf (by anonymous).
1200-1500: Middle English Period :
Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) :
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess.
Other Major Poems
The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,Truth, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Lak of Stedfastnesse, Against Women Unconstant.
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas Malory's (1405-1471) :
Morte d'Arthur.
work: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (by anonymous).
1500-1660: The English Renaissance 1500-1558: Tudor Period (Humanist Era)
The Humanists:
Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) :
Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, The Life of Pico della Mirandola, The Four Last Things, A Dialogue Concerning Tyndale, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation and Sadness of Christ .
Sir Thomas More
John Skelton (1460-1529):
A ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge
John Skelton
Sir Thomas Wyatt(1503-1542):
My Lute Awake! Once, As Methought, Fortune Me Kissed They Flee From Me The restful place ! renewer of my smart It may be good, like it who list In faith I wot not what to say There Was Never Nothing More Me Pained Patience ! though I have not Though I Cannot Your Cruelty Constrain Blame Not My Lute My Pen ! Take Pain The heart and service to you proffer'd Is It Possible? And Wilt Thou Leave Me Thus? Since so ye please to hear me plain Forget Not Yet The Tried Intent What Should I Say!
Sir Thomas Wyatt.
The Renaissance Period consists of four subsets:
1. 1558-1603: The Elizabethan Age (High Renaissance):
William Shakespeare (1564-1616):
Comedies: All's Well That Ends Well, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Love's Labour's Lost, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, The Tempest, Twelfth Night, or What You Will, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter's Tale
Histories: King John, Richard II, Henry IV, part 1, Henry IV, part 2, Henry V, Henry VI, part1, Henry VI, part 2, Henry VI, part 3, Richard III,Henry VIII
Tragedies: Romeo and Juliet, Coriolanus, Titus Andronicus, Timon of Athens, Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, King Lear, Othello, Antony and Cleopatra.Poems: Shakespeare's Sonnets, Venus and Adonis, The Rape of Lucrece, The Passionate Pilgrim, The Phoenix and the Turtle, A Lover's Complaint.
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe(1564-1593):
The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus The Jew of Malta Massacre at Paris Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 Tamburlaine the Great, Part 2 Lucan's First Book Edward II Dido Queen of Carthage Hero and Leander Ovid's Elegies The Passionate Shepherd to his Love
Christopher Marlowe
Edmund Spenser(1552-1599):
The Faerie Queene, Iambicum Trimetrum, The Shepheardes Calender.
Edmund Spenser
Sir Walter Raleigh(1552 ? 1618):
What is Our Life, The Ocean to Cynthia and The Lie.
Sir Walter Raleigh
Ben Jonson(1573-1637):
An Hymn to God the Father An Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior An Epitaph on Master Vincent Corbet On the Portrait of Shakspeare To the Memory of My Beloved the Author, Mr. William Shakespeare To Mr. John Fletcher, Upon His "Faithful Shepherdess" Epitaph on the Countess of Pembroke Epitaph on Michael Drayton To His Much and Worthily Esteemed Friend, the Author To My Worthy and Honored Friend, Master George Chapman
Ben Jonson
2. 1603-1625:The Jacobean Age {Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets}:
John Donne(1572-1631):
Song A Hymn to God the Father Death, Be Not Proud Confined Love The Dissolution Oh my black soul! now art thou summoned Father, part of his double interest A Hymn to Christ at the Author's Last Going into Germany
John Donne
Francis Bacon (1561-1626):
The Advancement of Learning, The Essays, The New Atlantis, Valerius Terminus of the Interpretation of Nature
Francis Bacon
Thomas Middleton (1580-1627):
The Phoenix Michaelmas Term A Mad World, My Masters A Trick to Catch the Old One The Puritan
Thomas Middleton
3.1625-1649: The Caroline Age : John Ford, John Milton
John Milton (1608-1674): Lycidas Paradise Lost Paradise Regained
John Milton
John Ford (1586-1640): Fame's Memorial Christ's Bloody Sweat, attr. Honour Triumphant The Witch of Edmonton The Sun's Darling The Lover's Melancholy Contention of a Bird and a Musician The Broken Heart A Bridal Song Love's Sacrifice 'Tis Pity She's a Whore Perkin Warbeck The Fancies, Chaste and Noble The Lady's Trial
John Ford
4. 1649-1660: The Commonwealth Period (which is also known as the Puritan & The Protectorate (Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style)
The Neoclassical Period: political writings of John Milton, Thomas Hobbes' political treatise Leviathan, and the prose of Andrew Marvell.
Andrew Marvell (1621-1678):
To his coy mistress
The Neoclassical Period can be divided into three subsets:
1. 1660-1700: The Restoration:
John Milton (1608-1674):
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained.
John Dryden (1631-1700), John Wilmot 2nd Earl of Rochester (1647?1680), satirical poet; and John Locke.
John Dryden
2. 1700-1800: The Eighteenth Century(The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age)
The Augustan Age:
Jonathan Swift, Alexander Pope , Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, (first English novels by Defoe) and Pamela, by Samuel Richardson.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744):
An Essay on Criticism The Rape of the Lock The Dunciad
Alexander Pope
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):
A Modest Proposal
Gulliver's Travels
Lady´s Dressing room
Strephon and Chloe
Cassinus and Peter
Jonathan Swift
3. The Age of Sensibility.
Samuel Johnson , and Henry Fielding
Henry Fielding (1707-1754)
Tom Jones.
Samuel Johnson (1709-1784):
A Dictionary of the English Language
To the Right Honorable the Earl of Chesterfield
1785-1870: Romanticism (The Age of Revolution) William Blake, William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, George Gordon Byron, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Jane Austen.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850):
London 1802
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
The Prelude
To a Skylark
Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772 ? 1834):
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Chrisabel
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
George Gordon Byron (1788-1824):
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage
Don Juan Song for the Luddites
The Isles of Greece
George Gordon Byron
1870-1914: Victorian Period (Early, Middle and Late Victorian) Charles Dickens, the Brontës, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Thomas Hardy.
Charles Dickens (1812-1870):
Great Expectations
Hard Times
The Old Curiosity Shop
Dombey and Son
A Tale of Two Cities
Oliver Twist
Charles Dickens
George Eliot (1819-1880):
Middlemarch
The mill on the floss
George Eliot
Robert Browning (1812-1889):
The Ring and the Book
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
1914-1945: Modern Period:
George Bernard Shaw, John Galosworthy, William Butler Yeats, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot.
George Bernard Shaw(1856-1950):
Candida
Pygmalion
An Unsocial Socialist Arms and the Man
Caesar and Cleopatra
The Irrational Knot
Cashel Byron's Profession
George Bernard Shaw
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939):
The Island Of Statutes Iris
Fairy Tales
On Baile' Strand
The Hour Glass
In The Seven Woods
The Kings Treshold
Reveries Over Childhood And Youth Responsibilities
Sailing To Byzantium
The Second Coming
At The Hawk's Well
William Butler Yeats
D.H. Lawrence(1885-1930):
Sons and Lovers
Everlasting Flowers Elegy
Discord in Childhood
Dolor of Autumn
Excursion
Lady Chatterley's Lover
Women in Love
D.H. Lawrence
T.S.Eliot(1888-1965):
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock.
Gerontion Sweeney Among the Nightingales
The Waste Land
The Hollow Men
The Journey of the Magi
Ash Wednesday
T.S.Eliot
1945- Postmodern and Contemporary Period
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