Periods Of English Literature – An Overview
Old English Literature: c.450 – 1066
- Anglo Saxon Manuscripts
- Beowulf as an epic
- Old English Heroic Poetry
- Old English Christian Poetry
- Old English Prose with special reference to Alfred and Aelfric
Middle English Literature: 1066 – 1500
- Medieval English Dream Poetry
- Middle English Metrical or Alliterative Romance
- Chaucer’s Poetic Career
English Renaissance: 1500 – 1660
- The Tudors: A Royal English Dynasty
- Metaphysical Poetry
- The University Wits
- ENGLISH PROSE IN THE ELIZABETHAN AGE
- Sonnet Sequence of Elizabethan Period
Restoration Age: 1660 – 1700
- Restoration Prose
- Restoration Verse Satire with Special Reference to Dryden
- Restoration Heroic Tragedy
- Restroration Comedy of Manners
18th Century English Literature
- The Eighteenth Century Novel
- Contribution of Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding to the Development of the 18th Century English Novel
Romantic Period: 1798 – 1837
- Salient Features of Romanticism
- Lyrical Ballads
- Contribution of Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southey to English Romanticism
- Personal Essays and Essayists of the Romantic Period
- The Romantic Movement as Return to Nature
