English Literature

Old English Period- Historical Background

Old English Literature

The Venerable Bede- LARGO

Alfred the Great

Beowulf- RAMON

Middle English Literature- Historical Background- NOBLEZA

Literature & Poets

Geoffrey Chaucer – Canterbury Tales- CADUYA

Sir Thomas Malory – Le Morte d’Arthur - ANG

Renaissance in English Literature- Historical Background- FLORECE

Christopher Marlowe – “Doctor Faustus” - DUHAYLUNGSOD

Edmund Spenser – “The Faerie Queen” – DEMEGILLO

William Shakespeare – “Merchant of Venice” - MEPIEZA

Ben Jonson – “To Celia” - BAGUHIN

The 17th Century- Historical Background - GAQUIT

Francis Bacon – “Essays” - CATAPANG

John Milton – “Paradise Lost” & “Paradise Regained” - SILVA

The 18th Century Age of Reason - Historical Background - DEDACE

Jonathan Swift – “A Modest Proposal” - MARANGA

Alexander Pope – “The Rape of the Lock” - BEJARIN

Thomas Gray – “Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - DERAMPATUN

The Romantic Movement in England- Romanticism- PERALTA

o Pre-Romantic Writers

Robert Burns “Auld Lang Syne” - PERFECIO

Mary Wollstonecraft – “Vindication of the Rights of Women” - MACEDA

 Mary Wollstonecraft Shelly – “Frankenstein’ - LACORTE

o The Romanticists

William Blake – “Songs of Innocence” & “Song of Experience” - VERGARA

William Wordsworth – “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” - JOSUE

Jane Austen – “Pride and Prejudice” - PANAGUITON

o The Younger Romanticists

Percy Bysshe Shelley – “Ode to the West Wind” - BARAN

John Keats – “Ode to a Nightingale” - ASUNCION

o English Literature of the Victorian Age- Historical Background

Elizabeth Barrett Browning – “Sonnets from the Portuguese” -ALVIARA

Victorian Novelists

Charles Dickens - “Tale of Two Cities” - CIRUNAY

William Makepeace Thackeray – “Vanity Fair’

Emile Bronte – “Wuthering Heights” - GEMPESAW

Birth of Psychological Novel

Thomas Hardy – “The Return of the Native”

Samuel Butler – “The Way of All Flesh”

Romance and Adventure

Robert Louis Stevenson – “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’

Rudyard Kippling - “The Jungle Book”

Lewis Carroll – “Alice in the Wonderland”- VEGA

19th Century Drama

Oscar Wilde – “Importance of Being Ernest”

George Bernard Shaw – “Pygmalion” - CORDERO

VIII. Modern English Literature- Historical Background

Early 20th Century Prose

John Gasworthy – “The Forsyte Saga” - CABANGISAN

 G. G. Wells –“The Time Machine” - MANILI

Early 20th-Century Poetry

A.E. Housman – “Shropshire Lad”

Walter de la Mare – “Peacock Pie”

Writers After World War I

Willliam Somerset Maugham – “Of Human Bondage” - MONTILLA

D. H. Lawrence – “Sons and Lovers” -

James Joyce – “Ulysses”

Fiction After World Wars

William Golding – “Lord of the Flies” RANOCO

George Orwell – “1984” - ANDAG

Kingsley Amis – “Lucky Jim” -

American Literature

Early American and Colonial Period to 1776

The Literature of Exploration

Captain John Smith – “Pocahontas” - SOLON

Colonial Period in New England

William Bradford - “Of Plymouth Plantation”

Anne Bradstreet – “To My Dear and Loving Husband” - CABAHUG

The American Enlightenment

Benjamin Franklin – “Autobiography”

Thomas Paine – “Common Sense”

Washington Irving – “Rip Van Winkle” & “The

Legend of Sleepy Hollow”

Romantic Period

Transcendentalists

Ralph Waldo Emerson – “Self-Reliance’ - NAPARAN

Henry David Thoreau – “Walden”- NAPARAN

The Brahmin Poets

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow – “Evangeline’

Romantic Period Fiction

Nathaniel Hawthorne – “In the House of the Seven Gables”

Herman Melville – “Moby Dick or The Whale” - MUDOC

Edgar Allan Poe - “The Cask of Amontillado” or “The Raven” – TACULIN

Harriet Beecher Stowe –“Uncle Tom’s Cabin” - COTIC

F. The Rise of Realism

Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) – Adventure of Huckleberry Finn - RELATADO

Stephen Crane – “Maggie: A Girl of Streets”

G. Modernism and Experimentalism

H. Poetry: 1914-1945: Experiments in Form

Ezra Pound – “The Cantos’

T.S. Eliot – “The Sacred Wood”

Robert Frost

Wallace Stevens – “Sunday Morning”

Prose Writing, 1914-1945: American Realism

Scott Fitzgerald – “The Great Gatsby’ - ABUDA

Ernest Hemingway – “The Old Men and the Sea’ - CATORCE

William Faulkner – “The Sound and The Fury”

John Steinback – “The Grapes of Wrath”- ANDAG