English Literature

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	From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf From ballads and monsters to Victorian literature and into the start of the 20th century, with special attention to the writers and works that define English literature.


	From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf Ballads and Moor Monsters Yes, It Is English Beowulf Geoffrey Chaucer The Canterbury Tales Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Ballads Sir Thomas Malory's The Death of Arthur Medieval Attitudes Toward Life Workshop: Alliteration Renaissance, Reason, and Order Sir Thomas More's Utopia The Italian Sonnet Meets English Talent The Faerie Queene Elizabeth I, Queen Who Shaped an Age From Pen to Printing Press Shakespeare's Sisters "The Vulgar Tongue" -- English Translations of the Bible Morality Plays, Interludes, and the Emergence of Mature Drama Workshop: The Sonnet Metaphysics and the Rising Middle Class: The 17th Century To Make a Point: Prose Without Frills John Donne and the Metaphysical Conceit The Metaphysical Poets Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea John Milton Adam, Eve, and the Serpent -- Milton's Paradise Lost Aphra Behn -- The First Woman to Make a Living Writing Workshop: Rhythm and Meter Satire, Sitcoms, Newspapers and Novels Satire: Dryden, Pope and Swift Comedy of Manners -- Stage Sitcoms Grub Street -- The First Newspapers Clarissa and Robinson Crusoe: The Novel Emerges The Letters of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Mary Wollstonecraft Poetry Workshop: The Heroic Couplet Political and Social Revolution Robert Burns William Blake Blake's London Mary Shelley's Frankenstein Workshop: Rhyme The Romantic Poets William Wordsworth, Poetic Revolutionary Ode on Intimations of Immortality Lyrical Ballads by Coleridge and Wordsworth Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Kubla Khan Lord Byron -- Cosmic Self-assertion Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Meek and Bold The Short Life of John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn Workshop: The Sestina Reform and Earnestness Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Brownings The Rossettis Gerard Manley Hopkins Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll Workshop: Metaphor and Simile Victorian Novelists The Brontë Family Wuthering Heights Jane Eyre Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and Emma George Eliot Silas Marner and Middlemarch Charles Dickens A Tale of Two Cities David Copperfield Victorian Heroes and Heroines Dickens's Pip: Great Expectations Heathcliff and Rochester Foundlings: Oliver and Emily Two Austen Heroines: Emma and Elizabeth Into the 20th century End of the Century Essayists Oscar Wilde Thomas Hardy -- The Last Victorian? Virginia Woolf CLOSE WINDOW

From Beowulf to Virginia Woolf