A SYLLABUS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PART 1 old one

IN THE NAME OF GOD
A SYLLABUS FOR THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, PART 1
BY NIKKHOO
Week 1: Old English Literature – Beowulf, King Alfred

Week2: Medieval Period--William Langland, Sir Gawain and the Greene Knight;
Mystery, Miracle and Morality plays—Everyman, Geoffrey Chaucer

Week3: The Renaissance and its features and background

Week4: Edmund Spencer, Sir Philip Sidney, Sir Thomas More

Week5: Renaissance prose: Raphael Holinshed, Sir Thomas Brown
Robert Burton, Francis Bacon, Thomas North, John Lyly

Week6: Ben Jonson, William Shakespeare

Week7: Renaissance Tragedy-- Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Kyd, John Webster

Week8: Metaphysical Poets -- John Donne, Andrew Marvell, George Herbert

Week9: Mid-term exam.
Puritan Age: John Bunyan (The Pilgrim’s Progress), John Milton (Paradise Lost)

Week10: The Neo-Classical Period
• Restoration Period
• Augustan Age
• Age of Sensibility

Week11: Restoration Period-- John Dryden, George Etherege, William Congreve, William Wycherley

Week 12: NOVELISTS--Daniel Defoe, Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, Lawrence Stern

Week13: Augustan Age--Dr. Samuel Johnson, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift

Week14: PHILOSOPHERS--John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Isaac Newton

Week15: AGE OF SENSIBILITY--James Thomson, William Collins, Thomas Gray, William Cowper, Robert Burns