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British Literature Through History

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British Literature Through History

British literature is literature from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the Isle of Man, and the Channel Islands. Anglo-Saxon (Old English) literature is included, and there is some discussion of Latin and Anglo-Norman literature, where literature in these languages relate to the early development of the English language and literature.

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Contents· 67 sections
  1. 01: Old English Literature
  2. 1.01: Development of the English Language
  3. 1.02: Caedmons Hymn and the Venerable Bede
  4. 1.03: The Dream of the Rood
  5. 1.04: Beowulf
  6. 02: Middle English Literature
  7. 2.01: Introduction to Middle English Literature- The Medieval World
  8. 2.02: William Caxton and Printing in England
  9. 2.03: Medieval Drama
  10. 2.04: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  11. 2.05: Geoffrey Chaucer (13431400)
  12. 2.06: Julian of Norwich (13421416)
  13. 03: The Sixteenth Century
  14. 3.01: The Sixteenth Century
  15. 3.02: Sir Philip Sidney (15541586)
  16. 3.03: William Shakespeare (15641616)The Sonnets
  17. 3.04: Christopher Marlowe (15641593)
  18. 3.05: Sir Walter Ralegh (15521618)
  19. 3.06: Elizabeth I (15331603)
  20. 3.07: William Shakespeare (15641616)The Plays
  21. 3.08: I Henry IV
  22. 3.09: Much Ado About Nothing
  23. 3.10: Twelfth Night
  24. 04: The Early 17th Century
  25. 4.01: The Early Seventeenth Century
  26. 4.02: John Donne (15721631)
  27. 4.03: Andrew Marvell (16211678)
  28. 4.04: Robert Herrick (15911674)
  29. 4.05: John Milton (16081674)
  30. 05: The Restoration and Eighteenth Century
  31. 5.01: The Restoration and 18th Century
  32. 5.02: Jonathan Swift (16671745)
  33. 5.03: Alexander Pope (16881744)
  34. 5.04: Frances Burney Madame DArblay (17521840)
  35. 5.05: Samuel Johnson (17091784)
  36. 5.06: Thomas Gray (17161771)
  37. 06: The Romantic Period
  38. 6.01: The Romantic Period (17981832)
  39. 6.02: Charlotte Turner Smith (17491806)
  40. 6.03: William Blake (17571827)
  41. 6.04: Robert Burns (17591796)
  42. 6.05: Mary Wollstonecraft (17591797)
  43. 6.06: William Wordsworth (17701850)
  44. 6.07: Dorothy Wordsworth (17711855)
  45. 6.08: Samuel Taylor Coleridge (17721834)
  46. 6.09: Jane Austen (17751817)
  47. 6.10: George Gordon Lord Byron (17881924)
  48. 6.11: Percy Bysshe Shelley (17921822)
  49. 6.12: John Keats (17951821)
  50. 07: The Victorian Era
  51. 7.01: The Victorian Era (18321901)
  52. 7.02: Charles Dickens (18121870)
  53. 7.03: Emily Bronte (18181848)
  54. 7.04: Elizabeth Barrett Browning (18061861)
  55. 7.05: Robert Browning (18121889)
  56. 7.06: Alfred Lord Tennyson (18091892)
  57. 7.07: Matthew Arnold (18221888)
  58. 7.08: Oscar Wilde (18541900)
  59. 08: The Twentieth Century
  60. 8.01: The Twentieth Century
  61. 8.02: Thomas Hardy (18401928)
  62. 8.03: Joseph Conrad (18571924)
  63. 8.04: The War Poets
  64. 8.05: Virginia Woolf (18821941)
  65. 8.06: T.S. Eliot (18881965)
  66. 8.07: Philip Larkin (19221985)
  67. 8.08: Carol Ann Duffy (1955)