British Literature

The links of British Literature are categorized into seven periods- The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Period(449-1485); The English Renaissance(1485-1660); The Restoration and Englightment(1660-1798); The Flowering of Romanticism(1798-1832); The Victorians(1832-1901); Emerging Modernism(1901-1959); Contemporary Voices(1950-present).


The Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Period (449-1485)

Beowulf

Geoffrey Chaucer-the Canterbury Tales


The English Renaissance (1485-1660)

Sir Philip Sidney

Loving in Truth

Sonnet 31

Edmund Spenser

The Faerie Queene

Sonnet 26

Sonnet 75

Christopher Marlowe

The Passionate Shepherd to his Love

William Shakespeare(go to the dedicated page of SHAKESPEARE by clicking here)

Sir Francis Bacon

Essays

John Donne

Poetry

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

Andrew Marvell

To His Coy Mistress

John Milton

Paradise Lost

John Bunyan

The Pilgrim's Progress

John Dryden

 

An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

 


The Restoration and Enlightenment (1660-1798)

Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel Pepys

Daniel Defoe

An Academy for Women

A Journal of the Plague Year

Jonathan Swift

Gulliver's Travels

Alexander Pope

An Essay on Man

An Essay on Criticism

The Rape of the ;ock

Epigrams

Samuel Johnson

A Dictionary of the English Language

Robert Burns' Poetry

William Blake

Songs of Innocence

Songs of Experience


The Flowering of Romanticism (1798-1832)

http://www.muohio.edu/~anthol/apmajor.htm: The Main Anthologies of the Romantic Period
--Romantic Poetry and Prose
--Romantic Women Poets
--Romanticism
--English Romantic Writers

William Wordsworth

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

George Gorden, Lord Byron

Don Juan

Chile Harold's Pilgrimage

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

A Dirge

Ozymandias

John Keats

Ode to the Nightingale

Ode on a Grecian Urn

To Autumn

Jane Austen

http://www.songline.com/teachers/literature.html: Literature: Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Emily Dickenson, Mark Twain, T.S.Eliot, William Faulkner...

Pride and Prejudice

Mary Shelley

Frankenstein

 


The Victorians( 1832-1901)

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Ulysses

In Memoriam A.H.H.

Elizabeth Browning :

http://library.advanced.org/3247/cgibin/dispoem.cgi?poet=browning.elizabeth&poem=how-do-i-love-thee.html&frame=

This site contains Elizabeth Browning's biography, her poems, the analysis of symbolism and philosophy in her works, and other issues about Victorian poets- http://www.stg.brown.edu/projects/hypertext/landow/victorian/ebb/browningov.html

Poems of 1844-http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/BarrettBrowning/Poemsof1844/


Sonnets from the Portuguese: http://www.inform.umd.edu/EdRes/Topic/WomensStudies/ReadingRoom/Poetry/BarrettBrowning/SonnetsFromThePortuguese/

Robert Browning

A Collection of his Work- http://library.advanced.org/3247/cgi-bin/dispworks.cgi?poet=browning.robert&frame=

Charles Dickens

Oliver Twist 

Charlotte Bronte

Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte

Wuthering Heights

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Christina Rossetti

Lewis Carrol

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mathew Arnold

Dover Beach

Gerad Manley Hopkins

Spring and Fall

Thomas Hardy

The Man He Killed

Oscar Wilde

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A.E. Housman

When I Was One-and-Twenty

To an ATHELETE Dying Young

 


Emerging Modernism(1901-1950)

George Bernard Shaw

Pygmalion

William Butler Yeats

The Lake Isle of Innisfree

The Wild Swan at Coole

Sailing to Bazantium

T.S. Eliot

Prelude

The Wasteland

The Hollow Man

Katherine Mansfield

A Cup of Tea

D. H. Lawrence

Goose Fair

The Rocking-Horse Winner

James Joyce

James Joyce Resources :http://www.moorhead.msus.edu/~chenault/joyce.htm

A dedicated website to James Joyce's Work "http://www.2street.com/joyce/

Ulysses

Araby

Virginia Woolf

Mrs.Dalloway

George Orwell

Animal Farm

Frank O'Connor

Masculine Protest

Graham Greene

A Shocking Accident

W.H. Auden

Musee des Beaux Arts

Dylan Thomas

Do Not Go Gentle into That

Good Night

Fern Hill


Contemporary Voices(1950-present)

Doris Lessing

A Sunrise on the Veld

Magarate Atwood

Significant Moments in the Life of My Mother

Ted Hughes

The Horses

Harold Pinter

The Homecoming

The Caretaker