Compact Guide for Quick Revision

CONTENTS

Section One: Literary History

1.    14th & 15th Centuries
  
2.    16th Century: The Elizabethan Age

3.    17th Century  
   
4.    18th Century: The Age of Prose & Reason

5.    19th Century: The Romantic Period  
 
6.    19th Century: The Victorian Age   

7.    20th Century

Section Two: British Literary Texts and Authors

 
1.    Francis Bacon’s Essays

2.    John Donne’s Poetry

3.    Hamlet

4.    The Tempest

5.    Shakespeare’s Sonnets

6.    Paradise Lost

7.    Pilgrim’s Progress

8.    Robinson Crusoe

9.    The School for Scandal

10.    Charles Lamb’s Essays

11.    Tennyson’s Poetry

12.    Great Expectations

13.    Tess of the D’Urbervilles

14.    W. B. Yeats’ Poetry

15.    The Importance of Being Earnest

16.    The Heart of Darkness

17.    The Waste Land

18.    The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

19.    Mrs. Dalloway

20.    Sons and Lovers

21.    A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

22.    W. H. Auden’s Poetry

23.    Philip Larkin’s Poetry

24.    Lucky Jim

25.    Pygmalion

26.    Waiting for Godot 

27.    Lord of the Flies

28.    Animal Farm

29.    Look Back in Anger
 

Section Three: Criticism and Theory
1.    Classicism & Romanticism

2.    Plato & Aristotle   

3.    Horace

4.    Longinus

5.    Philip Sidney

6.    John Dryden

7.    Samuel Johnson

8.    William Wordsworth

9.    Samuel Taylor Coleridge

10.    Matthew Arnold

11.    T. S. Eliot

12.    Literary Theory: An Introduction

13.    Structuralism & Poststructuralism

14.    Modernism & Postmodernism

15.    Marxist Literary Criticism

16.    Psychoanalytic Criticism

17.    Feminism

18.    Postcolonialism

19.    New Historicism

20.    Reader Response Theory
 

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