British Literary History

Venerable Bede

(Medieval) Ecclesiastical History

Archbishop Wulfstan

(Medieval) Sermo Lupi Ad Anglos

Marie de France

(Medieval) Lays and Fables

Wace

(Medieval) Brut

Margery Kemp

(Medieval) The Book of Margery Kemp

Julian of Norwich

(Medieval) Showings

Geoffery Chaucer

(Medieval) The Canterbury Tales, Parliament of Fowls, The Book of the Duchess, and Troilus and Criseyde

John Gower

(Medieval) Confessio Amantis

William Langland

(Medieval) Piers Plowman

The Pearl Poet

(Medieval) Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl

Thomas Malory

(Medieval) Morte d’Arthur

Sir Thomas Wyatt

(Early Modern) Tottel’s Miscellany (1557) which contains: “Whoso List to Hunt”

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

(Early Modern) “Description of the Restless State” (1557)

Edmund Spenser

(Early Modern) The Shepheardes Calandar (1579) and The Faerie Queen (1590-1596)

Christopher Marlowe

(Early Modern) Dr. Faustus (1592)

Ben Jonson

(Early Modern) Volpone (1605)

John Donne

(Early Modern) “The Flea” (1633), “Batter my heart, three-personed God” (1633) (which was one of his Holy Sonnets)

Robert Herrick

(Early Modern) “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”

Katherine Phillips

(Early Modern) “To my Excellent Lucasia, on our Friendship” (1667)

Margaret Cavendish

(Early Modern) The Blazing World (1666)

John Milton

(The Long 18th Century) Lycidas (1637) and Paradise Lost (1667)

John Dryden

(The Long 18th Century) “Annus Mirabilis” (1667), Marriage a la Mode (1672), All for Love (1678), Absalom and Achitophel (1681), and Mac Flecknoe (1681)

John Bunyan

(The Long 18th Century) The Pilgrim’s Progress (1678) and Grace Abounding to the Chief of Sinners (1666)

Aphra Behn

(The Long 18th Century) The Rover (1677) and Oroonoko (1688)

Jonathan Swift

(The Long 18th Century) Gulliver’s Travels (1726) and A Modest Proposal (1729)

Alexander Pope

(The Long 18th Century) An Essay on Criticism (1711) and The Rape of the Lock (1712)

Frances Burney

(The Long 18th Century) Evelina (1778)

Samuel Richardson

(The Long 18th Century) Pamela (1740)

Henry Fielding

(The Long 18th Century) Shamela (1741) and Joseph Andrews (1742)

Daniel Defoe

(The Long 18th Century) Robinson Crusoe (1719)

Samuel Johnson

(The Long 18th Century) A Dictionary of the English Language (1755)

Robert Burns

(Romantic) “Auld LAng Syne” (1788) and “Tam o’Shanter” (1791)

William Blake

(Romantic) Songs of Innocence (1789) and Songs of Experience (1794)

William Wordsworth

(Romantic) “The Solitary Reaper (1807) and The Prelude (1850)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

(Romantic) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798), Kublaa Khan (1816), and Christabel (1816)

John Keats

(Romantic) “Ode to a Nightingale” (1819) and “Ode on a Grecian Urn” (1819)

Percy Bysshe Shelley

(Romantic) Ode to the West Wind (1819) and Adonais (1821)

Lord Byron

(Romantic) Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812-16) and Don Juan (1819-24)

Sir Walter Scott

(Romantic) Waverly (1814), The Antiquary (1816), Old Mortality (1816), and The Heart of Midlothian (1818z0

John William Polidori

(Romantic) The VAmpyre (1819)

Mary Shelley

(Romantic) Frankenstein (1818)

Jane Austen

(Romantic) Sense and Sensibility (1811), Pride and Prejudice (1813), Mansfield Park (1814), Emma (1815), and Northanger Abbey (1817).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

(Victorian) Aurora Leigh (1856)

Christina Rossetti

(Victorian) “Goblin Market” (1862)

Robert Browning

(Victorian) “My Last Duchess” (1842)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

(Victorian) “Ulysses” (1842) and In Memoriam A.H.H. (1849)

Lewis Carrol

(Victorian) Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865), Through the Looking Glass (1871), and “Jabberwocky” (1871)

Edward Lear

(Victorian) “The Owl and the Pussycat” (1871)

Charlotte Bronte

(Victorian) Jane Eyre (1847)

Wilkie Collins

(Victorian) The Woman in White (1859)

Mary Elixabeth Braddon

(Victorian) Lady Audley’s Secret (1862)

William Makepeace Thackeray

(Victorian) Vanity Fair (1847-48)

George Eliot

(Victorian) Middlemarch (1871-72)

Charles Dickens

(Victorian) Oliver Twist (1837-39), Bleak House (1852-53), and Hard Times (1854)

Elizabeth Gaskell

(Victorian) North and South (1855)

Rudyard Kipling

(Victorian) Kim (1901)

Joseph Conrad

(Victorian)Heart of Darkness (1899)

J.M. Barrie

(Victorian) Peter and Wendy (1911)

Thomas Hardy

(Victorian) Tess of the d’Urbervilles (1892), Jude the Obscure (1895), and (Modernism) ”The Man He Killed” (1902)

Siir Arthur Conan Doyle

(Victorian) Sherlock Homes Series started in 1886

H.G. Wells

(Victorian) The Time Machine (1895) and The War of Worlds (1897)

Oscar Wilde

(Victorian) The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) and “Ballad of Reading Gaol” (1897

A. E. Housman

(Modernism) A Shropshire Lad (1896

Rupert Brooke

(Modernism) “The Soldier” (1914)

T.S. Eliot

(Modernism) “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” (1915” and The Waste Land (1922)

William Butler Yeats

(Modernism) The Tower (1928) that contained famous poems like “Leda and the Swan,” “Among School Children”, and “Sailing to Byzantium”

W.H. Auden

(Modernism) “Funeral Blues” (1936) and “September 1, 1939”

E.M. Forster

(Modernism) A Room with A View (1908) and A Passage to India (1924)

D.H. Lawrence

(Modernism) Lady Chatterley’s Lover (1928)

James Joyce

(Modernism) Ulysses (1922)

Virginia Woolf

(Modernism) Mrs. Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927), Orlando (1928), and A Room of One’s Own (1929).

Katherine Mansfield

(Modernism) “The Doll’s House” (1922), “The Garden Party” (1922), and “The Daughters of the Late Colonel” (1922)

Aldous Huxley

(Modernism) Brave New World (1931)

Evelyn Waugh

(Modernism) Brideshead Revisted (1945)

Graham Greene

(Modernism) Brighton Rock (1938)

George Bernard Shaw

(Modernism) Pygmalion (1912)

Philip Larkin

(After WW2) The Whitsun Weddings (1964 collection of poems)

Ted Hughes

(After WW2) The Hawk in the Rain (1957)

John Osborne

(After WW2) Look Back in Anger (1956)

Arnold Wesker

(After WW2) Roots (1959)

Kingsley Amis

(After WW2) Lucky Jim (1954)

John Braine

(After WW2) Room at the Top (1957)

Harold Pinter

(After WW2) The Birthday Party (1958), Tom Stoppard (1937), and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966).

Samuel Beckett

(After WW2) Waiting for Godot (1955)

Caryl Churchill

(After WW2) Cloud Nine (1979)

George Orwell

(After WW2) Animal Farm (1945) and 1984 (1949)

William Golding

(After WW2) Lord of the Flies (1954)

Anthony Burgess

(After WW2) A Clockwork Orange (1962)

Angela Carter

(After WW2) Night at the Circus (1984)

Salman Rushdie

(After WW2) Midnight Children (1981)

Chinua Achebe

(After WW2) Things Fall Apart (1958)

Jean Rhys

(After WW2) Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

Roald Dahl

(After WW2) Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (1964), The Witches (1983), and Matilda (1988).

C.S. Lewis

(After WW2) The Chronicles of Narnia (1950-56)

Martin Amis

(After WW2) London Fields (1989)

Irvine Welsh

(After WW2) Trainspotting (1993)

Ian McEwan

(After WW2) Atonement (2001)