A Brief History of World Literature Dictionary of Writers English literature CONTENTS: The Old English period The early Middle English period The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose The Restoration The 18th century The 18th century. The novel The Romantic period The later Romantics The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras Late Victorian literature The 20th century. The Modernist revolution The literature of World War I and the interwar period Literature after 1945. Fiction. Poetry Literature after 1945. Drama. The 21st century
A Brief History of World Literature
Dictionary of Writers
English literature
English literature The Old English period "St. Bede the Venerable" Caedmon Caedmon manuscript "Beowulf" Exeter Book Vercelli Book Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Battle of Brunanburh "The Battle of Maldon" Aldhelm Cynewulf "The Dream of the Rood" "Wulfstan" Celtic literature The early Middle English period Lawamon Geoffrey of Monmouth Robert Mannyng John of Salisbury Walter Map Richard Rolle Walter Hilton Julian of Norwich Roger Bacon William of Ockham The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods Sir Thomas Malory "King Arthur and of his Noble Knights" "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Knowles James "The Legends of King Arthur" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV Illustrations by Lancelot Speed William Langland Geoffrey Chaucer "The Canterbury Tales" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV John Gower Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate Robert Henryson William Dunbar Osbern Bokenam Howard Pyle "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" PART I, PART II Margery Kempe John Wycliffe William Tyndale Ranulf Higden Sir John Mandeville John Capgrave Sir John Fortescue John Skelton "Everyman" Alexander Barclay Stephen Hawes Sir Thomas Elyot Roger Ascham Henry Medwall Thomas More "Utopia" Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, earl of Surrey The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Robert Greene John Colet Sir Thomas Hoby John Florio Sir John Cheke Sir Thomas North John Foxe Miles Coverdale Edward Hall Raphael Holinshed Nicholas Grimald George Turberville George Gascoigne Sir John Harington Thomas Sackville Thomas Churchyard Sir Philip Sidney "Poems" Edmund Spenser "The Faerie Queene" BOOK I, BOOK II, BOOK III, BOOK IV, BOOK V, BOOK VI Illustrations by W. Crane Thomas Lodge George Peele Thomas Nashe Thomas Dekker Thomas Campion Nicholas Breton Samuel Daniel Michael Drayton Fulke Greville Barnabe Barnes Giles Fletcher the Elder Sir John Davies Robert Southwell Francis Beaumont George Chapman John Marston Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex Joseph Hall Cyril Tourneur Richard Hakluyt John Stow William Painter Anthony Munday Richard Hooker Thomas Deloney Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Nicholas Udall John Lyly Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" William Shakespeare PART I "Sonnets", PART II "Hamlet", PART III "King Lear", PART IV "Macbeth", PART V "Othello", PART VI "Romeo and Juliet" Thomas Heywood John Day Samuel Rowley Ben Jonson PART I "Volpone", PART II "The Alchemist" Thomas Middleton John Webster John Fletcher John Ford Philip Massinger Richard Brome Lucius Cary Edmund Waller Thomas Carew Sidney Godolphin Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan" John Donne "Songs and Sonnets", "Elegies" William Cartwright Francis Quarles Henry King Edward Herbert George Herbert Richard Crashaw Henry Vaughan John Cleveland Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick Sir John Suckling Richard Lovelace Sir William Davenant Sir John Denham Sir Richard Fanshawe Thomas Stanley Giles Fletcher the Younger Phineas Fletcher Josuah Sylvester William Browne Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose Francis Bacon PART I "New Atlantis", PART II "THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS" Owen Felltham Sir Thomas Overbury Thomas Fuller Izaak Walton Robert Burton "Anatomy of Melancholy" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV Sir Thomas Urquhart Sir Thomas Browne James Harrington John Milton "Paradise Lost" BOOK 1, BOOK 2, BOOK 3, BOOK 4, BOOK 5, BOOK 6 Illustrations by G. Dore BOOK 7, BOOK 8, BOOK 9 Illustrations by J. Martin, BOOK 10, BOOK 11, BOOK 12 Illustrations by H. Fuseli The Restoration John Bunyan "The Pilgrim's Progress" PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 Illustrations by G. Woolliscraft, F. Rhead, & L. Rhead Samuel Butler "Hudibras" Illustrations by William Hogarth Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon Isaac Barrow Thomas Sprat Joseph Glanvill Thomas Shadwell Robert Boyle Robert Hooke John Ray Sir Isaac Newton John Locke John Aubrey John Wilmot "Poems" George Savile John Evelyn Samuel Pepys "The Diary" PART I, PART II Sir Charles Sedley John Oldham Charles Cotton Thomas Traherne John Dryden Thomas Rymer Jeremy Collier William Congreve "Love for Love", "The Way of the World" Thomas Otway Nathaniel Lee Sir George Etherege William Wycherley Aphra Behn Thomas Southerne Sir John Vanbrugh George Farquhar The 18th century Richard Steele Joseph Addison Alexander Pope PART I. "The Rape of the Lock" Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, PART II. "An Essay on Man" James Thomson Matthew Prior John Gay "The Beggar's Opera" John Arbuthnot "History of John Bull", Caricatures of John Bull Jonathan Swift I. "Gulliver's Travels" , II. "A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT", III. "A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG" IV. "A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN", V. "A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS" Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of Shaftesbury Bernard de Mandeville William Law John Dennis Francis Hutcheson Joseph Butler David Hume "AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING", "A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE", "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION" Edmund Burke Adam Smith William Robertson Adam Ferguson The 18th century. The novel Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" CHARTER I-VII, CHARTER VIII-XX Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth Samuel Richardson "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" LETTER I-XXXI, LETTER XXXII Illustrations by Joseph Highmore Henry Fielding "The History of Tom Jones, a foundling" BOOK I-IV, BOOK V-XI, BOOK XII-XVIII Tobias Smollett "THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE" VOLUME I, VOLUME II Laurence Sterne "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" VOLUME I, II, III, IV Illustrations by George Cruikshank Sarah Fielding Charlotte Lennox Richard Graves John Cleland "Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" Illustrations by Avril Paul Henry Mackenzie Horace Walpole "The Castle of Otranto" William Beckfor "The History of Caliph Vathek" Ann Radcliffe "The Mysteries of Udolpho" VOLUME 1-2, VOLUME 3, VOLUME 4 Matthew Lewis "The Monk" Fanny Burney William Collins Thomas Gray Thomas Parnell Robert Blair James Macpherson Christopher Smart William Cowper Isaac Watts Lady Mary Montagu Hannah More Anna Seward Charlotte Smith Robert Burns "Poems & Songs" BOOK I, BOOK II Oliver Goldsmith "She Stoops to Conquer" Samuel Johnson PART I "Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia", PART II-III "LIVES OF THE POETS" Nicholas Rowe Hester Lynch Piozzi Sir John Hawkins James Boswell Edward Gibbon George Berkeley I. "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision", II. "THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS" Samuel Clarke The Romantic period Leigh Hunt John Stuart Mill William Blake I. "Songs of Innocence", II. "Songs of Experience", III. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", IV-V. "The Book of Job" William Wordsworth "The Prelude" Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" PART I, PART II-IV, PART V-VI, PART VII Illustrations by Gustave Dore Dorothy Wordsworth William Lisle Bowles Thomas Campbell Samuel Rogers Thomas Moore Helen Maria Williams Mary Robinson Robert Southey George Crabbe The later Romantics Percy Bysshe Shelley "Prometheus Unbound" William Godwin John Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes" George Gordon, Lord Byron "Don Juan" CANTO THE FIRST-CANTO THE FIFTH, CANTO THE SIXTH-CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH John Clare Thomas Lovell Beddoes George Darley Thomas Hood Felicia Hemans Henry Brooke Charles Lamb Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" James Hogg Thomas Holcroft Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Inchbald Maria Edgeworth Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" PART I, PART II Thomas Love Peacock Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet "Ivanhoe" William Hazlitt Mary Russell Mitford Thomas De Quincey "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" William Cobbett Richard Brinsley Sheridan "School for Scandal" Illustrations by Hugh Thompson Richard Cumberland George Colman the Younger Jeremy Bentham The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras Thomas Carlyle Algernon Charles Swinburne Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II-XII, CHAPTER XIII-XXXII, CHAPTER XXXIII-LIX Illustrations by John McLenan William Makepeace Thackeray Elizabeth Gaskell Frances Trollope Benjamin Disraeli Charles Kingsley Anne Brontë Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre" CHAPTER I-XXIV, CHAPTER XXV-XXXVIII Illustrations by F. H. Townsend Emily Brontë Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King" PART I, PART II Illustrations by G. Dore "Lady of Shalott", "Sir Galahad" Pre-Raphaelite illustrations for Moxon's Tennyson Arthur Hallam Robert Browning "Dramatic Romances" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese" Matthew Arnold Arthur Hugh Clough John Ruskin "The King of the Golden River" Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk John Henry Newman Bernard Bosanquet F. H. Bradley T. H. Green Herbert Spencer Alfred North Whitehead Late Victorian literature Charles Darwin Walter Pater George Eliot "Silas Marner" Anthony Trollope "Barchester Towers" George Meredith "The Egoist" Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone" PART I, PART II "The Woman in White", PART I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VI Illustrations by John McLenan Robert Louis Stevenson "Treasure Island" Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth William Morris Oscar Wilde I. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "The Paradox" II. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" III. "Salome" Illustrations by Beardsley George Moore George Gissing Thomas Hardy "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" PART I, PART II J. M. Barrie "Peter Pan" "Peter and Wendy" CHAPTER 1-5, CHAPTER 6-17 Illustrations by F. D. Bedford "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II-IV, CHAPTER V-VI Illustrations by Arthur Rackham George MacDonald "The Princess and the Goblin" PART I, PART II, PART III Bram Stoker "Dracula" CHAPTER 1-10, CHAPTER 11-27 H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds" PART I, PART II "The Invisible Man" "A Short History of the World" PART I, II, III, IV, V Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "SHERLOCK HOLMES" (contents) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "The Hound of the Baskervilles" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "A Study in Scarlet", "The Valley of Fear", "His Last Bow", "The Sign of Four" Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The House of Life" Christina Rossetti Gerard Manley Hopkins John Davidson Arthur Symons Francis Thompson Ernest Dowson Lionel Johnson A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad", "Last Poems" Rudyard Kipling PART I "Poems" PART II "Kim" PART III "The Jungle Book" Dion Boucicault T.W. Robertson Arthur Wing Pinero Douglas Jerrold Edward Lear Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll - photographer PART 2 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 Illustrations by John Tenniel "Through the Looking-Glass" PART 6, PART 7, PART 8 Illustrations by John Tenniel Illustrations by Arthur Rackham PART 9 Walt Disney’s "Alice in Wonderland" PART10, PART 11 Jerome K. Jerome "Three Men in a Boat" George Grossmith The 20th century. The Modernist revolution George Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" John Galsworthy Harley Granville-Barker Arnold Bennett "The Old Wives' Tale" BOOK I-II, BOOK III-IV E.M. Forster Hilaire Belloc G.K. Chesterton PART I "The Innocence of Father Brown", PART II "The Wisdom of Father Brown", PART III "The Incredulity of Father Brown", PART IV "The Secret of Father Brown", PART V "The Scandal of Father Brown" Edward Thomas Walter de la Mare John Masefield Robert Graves Edmund Blunden Joseph Conrad "Lord Jim" T.E. Hulme F.S. Flint Richard Aldington Wyndham Lewis D.H. Lawrence "Sons and Lovers" PART I, PART II, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" PART I, PART II T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land" William Butler Yeats "A Man Young And Old" James Joyce "Ulysses" PART I, PART II, PART III David Jones Hugh MacDiarmid A. C. Ewing G. E. Moore Bertrand Russell "The Problems of Philosophy" Gilbert Ryle John Langshaw Austin Ludwig Wittgenstein "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" The literature of World War I and the interwar period Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Isaac Rosenberg Wilfred Owen Aldous Huxley Noel Coward Ford Madox Ford John Cowper Powys Lytton Strachey Virginia Woolf "Jacob's Room" Katherine Mansfield Dorothy Richardson Rebecca West Jean Rhys Evelyn Waugh Lewis Grassic Gibbon Graham Greene George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Elizabeth Bowen W.H. Auden C. Day-Lewis Louis MacNeice Stephen Spender Christopher Isherwood David Gascoyne Dylan Thomas "Poems" Henry Green Patrick Hamilton Alun Lewis Keith Castellain Douglas Literature after 1945. Fiction. Poetry Christopher Fry William Gerald Golding Muriel Spark Ivy Compton-Burnett Iris Murdoch Barbara Pym John Braine John Wain Alan Sillitoe Stan Barstow David Storey Anthony Powell Kingsley Amis C.P. Snow Angus Wilson Malcolm Bradbury David Lodge Paul Scott J.G. Farrell Julian Barnes Salman Rushdie Margaret Drabble Martin Amis Angela Carter Jeanette Winterson Beryl Bainbridge A.S. Byatt Ian McEwan Graham Swift George Barker D.J. Enright Roy Fuller Robert Conquest Elizabeth Jennings Philip Larkin John Betjeman Ted Hughes Thom Gunn R.S. Thomas Douglas Dunn Tony Harrison Andrew Motion Sylvia Plath Literature after 1945. Drama. The 21st century Terence Rattigan John Osborne Shelagh Delaney John Arden Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot" Harold Pinter Joe Orton Tom Stoppard Alan Ayckbourn Brian Friel Caryl Churchill David Hare Alan Bennett William Somerset Maugham A. J. Cronin Pamela Lyndon Travers A. A. Milne T. H. White Mary Norton Frances Hodgson Burnett Hugh Lofting Dodie Smith Agatha Christie "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" J. R. R. Tolkien John Boynton Priestley Ian Fleming C. S. Lewis E. H. Gombrich "World History for Children" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V, PART VI, PART VII Roald Dahl Arthur C. Clarke Doris Lessing John Robert Fowles J. K. Rowling
The Old English period "St. Bede the Venerable" Caedmon Caedmon manuscript "Beowulf" Exeter Book Vercelli Book Anglo-Saxon Chronicle The Battle of Brunanburh "The Battle of Maldon" Aldhelm Cynewulf "The Dream of the Rood" "Wulfstan" Celtic literature
The early Middle English period Lawamon Geoffrey of Monmouth Robert Mannyng John of Salisbury Walter Map Richard Rolle Walter Hilton Julian of Norwich Roger Bacon William of Ockham
The later Middle English and early Renaissance periods Sir Thomas Malory "King Arthur and of his Noble Knights" "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Knowles James "The Legends of King Arthur" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV Illustrations by Lancelot Speed William Langland Geoffrey Chaucer "The Canterbury Tales" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV John Gower Thomas Hoccleve John Lydgate Robert Henryson William Dunbar Osbern Bokenam Howard Pyle "The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood" PART I, PART II Margery Kempe John Wycliffe William Tyndale Ranulf Higden Sir John Mandeville John Capgrave Sir John Fortescue John Skelton "Everyman" Alexander Barclay Stephen Hawes Sir Thomas Elyot Roger Ascham Henry Medwall Thomas More "Utopia" Sir Thomas Wyatt Henry Howard, earl of Surrey
The Renaissance period: 1550–1660 Robert Greene John Colet Sir Thomas Hoby John Florio Sir John Cheke Sir Thomas North John Foxe Miles Coverdale Edward Hall Raphael Holinshed Nicholas Grimald George Turberville George Gascoigne Sir John Harington Thomas Sackville Thomas Churchyard Sir Philip Sidney "Poems" Edmund Spenser "The Faerie Queene" BOOK I, BOOK II, BOOK III, BOOK IV, BOOK V, BOOK VI Illustrations by W. Crane Thomas Lodge George Peele Thomas Nashe Thomas Dekker Thomas Campion Nicholas Breton Samuel Daniel Michael Drayton Fulke Greville Barnabe Barnes Giles Fletcher the Elder Sir John Davies Robert Southwell Francis Beaumont George Chapman John Marston Sir Walter Raleigh Robert Devereux, 2nd earl of Essex Joseph Hall Cyril Tourneur Richard Hakluyt John Stow William Painter Anthony Munday Richard Hooker Thomas Deloney
Elizabethan and early Stuart drama Nicholas Udall John Lyly Thomas Kyd Christopher Marlowe "The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus" William Shakespeare PART I "Sonnets", PART II "Hamlet", PART III "King Lear", PART IV "Macbeth", PART V "Othello", PART VI "Romeo and Juliet" Thomas Heywood John Day Samuel Rowley Ben Jonson PART I "Volpone", PART II "The Alchemist" Thomas Middleton John Webster John Fletcher John Ford Philip Massinger Richard Brome Lucius Cary Edmund Waller Thomas Carew Sidney Godolphin Thomas Hobbes "Leviathan" John Donne "Songs and Sonnets", "Elegies" William Cartwright Francis Quarles Henry King Edward Herbert George Herbert Richard Crashaw Henry Vaughan John Cleveland Abraham Cowley Andrew Marvell Robert Herrick Sir John Suckling Richard Lovelace Sir William Davenant Sir John Denham Sir Richard Fanshawe Thomas Stanley Giles Fletcher the Younger Phineas Fletcher Josuah Sylvester William Browne
Effect of religion and science on early Stuart prose Francis Bacon PART I "New Atlantis", PART II "THE ESSAYS OR COUNSELS" Owen Felltham Sir Thomas Overbury Thomas Fuller Izaak Walton Robert Burton "Anatomy of Melancholy" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV Sir Thomas Urquhart Sir Thomas Browne James Harrington John Milton "Paradise Lost" BOOK 1, BOOK 2, BOOK 3, BOOK 4, BOOK 5, BOOK 6 Illustrations by G. Dore BOOK 7, BOOK 8, BOOK 9 Illustrations by J. Martin, BOOK 10, BOOK 11, BOOK 12 Illustrations by H. Fuseli
The Restoration John Bunyan "The Pilgrim's Progress" PART 1, PART 2, PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 Illustrations by G. Woolliscraft, F. Rhead, & L. Rhead Samuel Butler "Hudibras" Illustrations by William Hogarth Edward Hyde, 1st earl of Clarendon Isaac Barrow Thomas Sprat Joseph Glanvill Thomas Shadwell Robert Boyle Robert Hooke John Ray Sir Isaac Newton John Locke John Aubrey John Wilmot "Poems" George Savile John Evelyn Samuel Pepys "The Diary" PART I, PART II Sir Charles Sedley John Oldham Charles Cotton Thomas Traherne John Dryden Thomas Rymer Jeremy Collier William Congreve "Love for Love", "The Way of the World" Thomas Otway Nathaniel Lee Sir George Etherege William Wycherley Aphra Behn Thomas Southerne Sir John Vanbrugh George Farquhar
The 18th century Richard Steele Joseph Addison Alexander Pope PART I. "The Rape of the Lock" Illustration by Aubrey Beardsley, PART II. "An Essay on Man" James Thomson Matthew Prior John Gay "The Beggar's Opera" John Arbuthnot "History of John Bull", Caricatures of John Bull Jonathan Swift I. "Gulliver's Travels" , II. "A VOYAGE TO LILLIPUT", III. "A VOYAGE TO BROBDINGNAG" IV. "A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, LUGGNAGG, GLUBBDUBDRIB, AND JAPAN", V. "A VOYAGE TO THE COUNTRY OF THE HOUYHNHNMS" Anthony Ashley Cooper, 3rd earl of Shaftesbury Bernard de Mandeville William Law John Dennis Francis Hutcheson Joseph Butler David Hume "AN ENQUIRY CONCERNING HUMAN UNDERSTANDING", "A TREATISE OF HUMAN NATURE", "THE NATURAL HISTORY OF RELIGION" Edmund Burke Adam Smith William Robertson Adam Ferguson
The 18th century. The novel Daniel Defoe "Robinson Crusoe" CHARTER I-VII, CHARTER VIII-XX Illustrations by N. C. Wyeth Samuel Richardson "Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded" LETTER I-XXXI, LETTER XXXII Illustrations by Joseph Highmore Henry Fielding "The History of Tom Jones, a foundling" BOOK I-IV, BOOK V-XI, BOOK XII-XVIII Tobias Smollett "THE ADVENTURES OF PEREGRINE PICKLE" VOLUME I, VOLUME II Laurence Sterne "The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman" VOLUME I, II, III, IV Illustrations by George Cruikshank Sarah Fielding Charlotte Lennox Richard Graves John Cleland "Fanny Hill: or, the Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure" Illustrations by Avril Paul Henry Mackenzie Horace Walpole "The Castle of Otranto" William Beckfor "The History of Caliph Vathek" Ann Radcliffe "The Mysteries of Udolpho" VOLUME 1-2, VOLUME 3, VOLUME 4 Matthew Lewis "The Monk" Fanny Burney William Collins Thomas Gray Thomas Parnell Robert Blair James Macpherson Christopher Smart William Cowper Isaac Watts Lady Mary Montagu Hannah More Anna Seward Charlotte Smith Robert Burns "Poems & Songs" BOOK I, BOOK II Oliver Goldsmith "She Stoops to Conquer" Samuel Johnson PART I "Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia", PART II-III "LIVES OF THE POETS" Nicholas Rowe Hester Lynch Piozzi Sir John Hawkins James Boswell Edward Gibbon George Berkeley I. "An Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision", II. "THREE DIALOGUES BETWEEN HYLAS AND PHILONOUS" Samuel Clarke
The Romantic period Leigh Hunt John Stuart Mill William Blake I. "Songs of Innocence", II. "Songs of Experience", III. "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell", IV-V. "The Book of Job" William Wordsworth "The Prelude" Samuel Taylor Coleridge "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" PART I, PART II-IV, PART V-VI, PART VII Illustrations by Gustave Dore Dorothy Wordsworth William Lisle Bowles Thomas Campbell Samuel Rogers Thomas Moore Helen Maria Williams Mary Robinson Robert Southey George Crabbe
The later Romantics Percy Bysshe Shelley "Prometheus Unbound" William Godwin John Keats "The Eve of St. Agnes" George Gordon, Lord Byron "Don Juan" CANTO THE FIRST-CANTO THE FIFTH, CANTO THE SIXTH-CANTO THE SEVENTEENTH John Clare Thomas Lovell Beddoes George Darley Thomas Hood Felicia Hemans Henry Brooke Charles Lamb Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley "Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus" James Hogg Thomas Holcroft Mary Wollstonecraft Elizabeth Inchbald Maria Edgeworth Jane Austen "Pride and Prejudice" PART I, PART II Thomas Love Peacock Sir Walter Scott, 1st Baronet "Ivanhoe" William Hazlitt Mary Russell Mitford Thomas De Quincey "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater" William Cobbett Richard Brinsley Sheridan "School for Scandal" Illustrations by Hugh Thompson Richard Cumberland George Colman the Younger Jeremy Bentham
The Post-Romantic and Victorian eras Thomas Carlyle Algernon Charles Swinburne Charles Dickens "Great Expectations" CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II-XII, CHAPTER XIII-XXXII, CHAPTER XXXIII-LIX Illustrations by John McLenan William Makepeace Thackeray Elizabeth Gaskell Frances Trollope Benjamin Disraeli Charles Kingsley Anne Brontë Charlotte Bronte "Jane Eyre" CHAPTER I-XXIV, CHAPTER XXV-XXXVIII Illustrations by F. H. Townsend Emily Brontë Alfred Tennyson "Idylls of the King" PART I, PART II Illustrations by G. Dore "Lady of Shalott", "Sir Galahad" Pre-Raphaelite illustrations for Moxon's Tennyson Arthur Hallam Robert Browning "Dramatic Romances" Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese" Matthew Arnold Arthur Hugh Clough John Ruskin "The King of the Golden River" Illustrations by Maria L. Kirk John Henry Newman Bernard Bosanquet F. H. Bradley T. H. Green Herbert Spencer Alfred North Whitehead
Late Victorian literature Charles Darwin Walter Pater George Eliot "Silas Marner" Anthony Trollope "Barchester Towers" George Meredith "The Egoist" Wilkie Collins "The Moonstone" PART I, PART II "The Woman in White", PART I, II, III, IV, V, VI, VI Illustrations by John McLenan Robert Louis Stevenson "Treasure Island" Illustrations by N.C. Wyeth William Morris Oscar Wilde I. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "The Paradox" II. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" III. "Salome" Illustrations by Beardsley George Moore George Gissing Thomas Hardy "Tess of the d'Urbervilles" PART I, PART II J. M. Barrie "Peter Pan" "Peter and Wendy" CHAPTER 1-5, CHAPTER 6-17 Illustrations by F. D. Bedford "Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens" CHAPTER I, CHAPTER II-IV, CHAPTER V-VI Illustrations by Arthur Rackham George MacDonald "The Princess and the Goblin" PART I, PART II, PART III Bram Stoker "Dracula" CHAPTER 1-10, CHAPTER 11-27 H.G. Wells "The War of the Worlds" PART I, PART II "The Invisible Man" "A Short History of the World" PART I, II, III, IV, V Sir Arthur Conan Doyle "SHERLOCK HOLMES" (contents) "The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "The Return of Sherlock Holmes" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "The Hound of the Baskervilles" PART I, PART II Illustrations by Sidney Paget "A Study in Scarlet", "The Valley of Fear", "His Last Bow", "The Sign of Four" Dante Gabriel Rossetti "The House of Life" Christina Rossetti Gerard Manley Hopkins John Davidson Arthur Symons Francis Thompson Ernest Dowson Lionel Johnson A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad", "Last Poems" Rudyard Kipling PART I "Poems" PART II "Kim" PART III "The Jungle Book" Dion Boucicault T.W. Robertson Arthur Wing Pinero Douglas Jerrold Edward Lear Lewis Carroll Lewis Carroll - photographer PART 2 "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland" PART 3, PART 4, PART 5 Illustrations by John Tenniel "Through the Looking-Glass" PART 6, PART 7, PART 8 Illustrations by John Tenniel Illustrations by Arthur Rackham PART 9 Walt Disney’s "Alice in Wonderland" PART10, PART 11 Jerome K. Jerome "Three Men in a Boat" George Grossmith
The 20th century. The Modernist revolution George Bernard Shaw "Pygmalion" John Galsworthy Harley Granville-Barker Arnold Bennett "The Old Wives' Tale" BOOK I-II, BOOK III-IV E.M. Forster Hilaire Belloc G.K. Chesterton PART I "The Innocence of Father Brown", PART II "The Wisdom of Father Brown", PART III "The Incredulity of Father Brown", PART IV "The Secret of Father Brown", PART V "The Scandal of Father Brown" Edward Thomas Walter de la Mare John Masefield Robert Graves Edmund Blunden Joseph Conrad "Lord Jim" T.E. Hulme F.S. Flint Richard Aldington Wyndham Lewis D.H. Lawrence "Sons and Lovers" PART I, PART II, "Lady Chatterley's Lover" PART I, PART II T.S. Eliot "The Waste Land" William Butler Yeats "A Man Young And Old" James Joyce "Ulysses" PART I, PART II, PART III David Jones Hugh MacDiarmid A. C. Ewing G. E. Moore Bertrand Russell "The Problems of Philosophy" Gilbert Ryle John Langshaw Austin Ludwig Wittgenstein "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus"
The literature of World War I and the interwar period Rupert Brooke Siegfried Sassoon Isaac Rosenberg Wilfred Owen Aldous Huxley Noel Coward Ford Madox Ford John Cowper Powys Lytton Strachey Virginia Woolf "Jacob's Room" Katherine Mansfield Dorothy Richardson Rebecca West Jean Rhys Evelyn Waugh Lewis Grassic Gibbon Graham Greene George Orwell "Nineteen Eighty-Four" Elizabeth Bowen W.H. Auden C. Day-Lewis Louis MacNeice Stephen Spender Christopher Isherwood David Gascoyne Dylan Thomas "Poems" Henry Green Patrick Hamilton Alun Lewis Keith Castellain Douglas
Literature after 1945. Fiction. Poetry Christopher Fry William Gerald Golding Muriel Spark Ivy Compton-Burnett Iris Murdoch Barbara Pym John Braine John Wain Alan Sillitoe Stan Barstow David Storey Anthony Powell Kingsley Amis C.P. Snow Angus Wilson Malcolm Bradbury David Lodge Paul Scott J.G. Farrell Julian Barnes Salman Rushdie Margaret Drabble Martin Amis Angela Carter Jeanette Winterson Beryl Bainbridge A.S. Byatt Ian McEwan Graham Swift George Barker D.J. Enright Roy Fuller Robert Conquest Elizabeth Jennings Philip Larkin John Betjeman Ted Hughes Thom Gunn R.S. Thomas Douglas Dunn Tony Harrison Andrew Motion Sylvia Plath
Literature after 1945. Drama. The 21st century Terence Rattigan John Osborne Shelagh Delaney John Arden Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot" Harold Pinter Joe Orton Tom Stoppard Alan Ayckbourn Brian Friel Caryl Churchill David Hare Alan Bennett William Somerset Maugham A. J. Cronin Pamela Lyndon Travers A. A. Milne T. H. White Mary Norton Frances Hodgson Burnett Hugh Lofting Dodie Smith Agatha Christie "The Mysterious Affair at Styles" J. R. R. Tolkien John Boynton Priestley Ian Fleming C. S. Lewis E. H. Gombrich "World History for Children" PART I, PART II, PART III, PART IV, PART V, PART VI, PART VII Roald Dahl Arthur C. Clarke Doris Lessing John Robert Fowles J. K. Rowling
