British literature impoetant writers

Age of Chaucer (1340-1400)

French phase:- Book of duchess , Romance of rose

Italian phase:- Troilus and creseyede(1st novel) , Legend of good women , Parliament of foules

English phse:- Canterbury tales (plowman, poor parson, student of oxford and the night)

John Wycliff (1324-1384)

Morning star of Reformation

Translated St. Jerome’s latin Bible into English (Vulgate’s Bible)

Lead group called “Lollards”

William Langland(1332-1400)

The vision of Piers Plowman - story about a poet’s spiritual journey (no. of visions he gets is 8)

Philip Sydney(1554-1586)

Renaissance man

Called mix of comedy and tragedy “Mongreal”

Arcade

Astrophel and Stella

An apology for Poetry ( reply to Stephen Gosson’s “school of abuse”)

Christopher Marlowe

“come live with me and be my love” (The passionate shepherd to his love)

Replied by Walter Relegh ‘Nymph reply to the shepherd’

Doctor Faustus (5 act play) (themes; Ambition, quest for knowledge, good and evil)

The jew of Malta (Machiavellain priniples in Baraba))

Tumberlaine

Edward IV (play)

University Wits

Coined by George Sainsbury

Christopher Marlowe, Robert Greene, Thomas Nashe (cambridge uni)

Thomas Lodge, George Peele, John Lyly (Oxford uni)

Thomas Kyd ( no uni)

Ben Johnson

1st to bring comedy of humour in english (inspired by plautus’ plot of gold)

4 diff hormones; Choleric, Melancholic, phelgum and blood (misbalance leads to comical behaviour)

• Every man in his humors(Knowell played by shakesperre)

• The Alchemist

• Walpole

• Episene the silent woman

• Poetesters ( satire on Thomas dekker and Jhon Marston ; reply by dekker “satiro Mastix” ) War of Theatres of 16th century

Bhishop’s Ban

1599 , no satires and comedy

Francis Bacon

Elisabeth called him “the little lord keeper”

Alexander Pope “ he is wisest, brightest and meanest of mankind”

Inspired by french writer Montaigne

Advancment of Learning ( request for funds for science edu)

Novum Organum(in latin)

New Atlantis ( utopian, King soloman donates land to build Library)

Total 58 essays

Samuel Johnson

“literacy Club” 1764

Coined the group “metaphysical school of poetry”

Life of Abraham cowley

Preface to shakespeare

1st Indian Novel

Bankim Chandra Chatopadhyay ( Raj Mohan’s wife)