British Literature Through History

Title Page
Licensing
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 Old English Literature
	1.1 Development of the English Language
	1.2 “Caedmon’s Hymn” and the Venerable Bede
	1.3 “The Dream of the Rood”
	1.4 Beowulf
Chapter 2 Middle English Literature
	2.1 Introduction to Middle English Literature: The Medieval World
	2.2 William Caxton and Printing in England
	2.3 Medieval Drama
	2.4 Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
	2.5 Geoffrey Chaucer (1343–1400)
	2.6 Julian of Norwich (1342–1416)
Chapter 3 The Sixteenth Century
	3.1 The Sixteenth Century
	3.2 Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586)
	3.3 William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—The Sonnets
	3.4 Christopher Marlowe (1564–1593)
	3.5 Sir Walter Ralegh (1552–1618)
	3.6 Elizabeth I (1533–1603)
	3.7 William Shakespeare (1564–1616)—The Plays
	3.8 I Henry IV
	3.9 Much Ado About Nothing
	3.10 Twelfth Night
Chapter 4 The Early 17th Century
	4.1 The Early Seventeenth Century
	4.2 John Donne (1572–1631)
	4.3 Andrew Marvell (1621–1678)
	4.4 Robert Herrick (1591–1674)
	4.5 John Milton (1608–1674)
Chapter 5 The Restoration and Eighteenth Century
	5.1 The Restoration and 18th Century
	5.2 Jonathan Swift (1667–1745)
	5.3 Alexander Pope (1688–1744)
	5.4 Frances Burney [Madame D’Arblay] (1752–1840)
	5.5 Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)
	5.6 Thomas Gray (1716–1771)
Chapter 6 The Romantic Period
	6.1 The Romantic Period (1798–1832)
	6.2 Charlotte Turner Smith (1749–1806)
	6.3 William Blake (1757–1827)
	6.4 Robert Burns (1759–1796)
	6.5 Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797)
	6.6 William Wordsworth (1770–1850)
	6.7 Dorothy Wordsworth (1771–1855)
	6.8 Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)
	6.9 Jane Austen (1775–1817)
	6.10 George Gordon, Lord Byron (1788–1924)
	6.11 Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)
	6.12 John Keats (1795–1821)
Chapter 7 The Victorian Era
	7.1 The Victorian Era (1832–1901)
	7.2 Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
	7.3 Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
	7.4 Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806–1861)
	7.5 Robert Browning (1812–1889)
	7.6 Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892)
	7.7 Matthew Arnold (1822–1888)
	7.8 Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)
Chapter 8 The Twentieth Century
	8.1 The Twentieth Century
	8.2 Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)
	8.3 Joseph Conrad (1857–1924)
	8.4 The War Poets
	8.5 Virginia Woolf (1882–1941)
	8.6 T.S. Eliot (1888–1965)
	8.7 Philip Larkin (1922–1985)
	8.8 Carol Ann Duffy (1955–)