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A Brief Introduction of English Literature 1. Literature before the 20th century in England: Part One: The Anglo-Saxon Period (449-1066) Beowulf Part Two: The Anglo-Norman Period (1066-1350) Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Part Three: Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) The Canterbury Tales Popular Ballads Robin Hood and Allin Dale Part Four: Renaissance (Humanism) 16th Century William Shakespeare Hamlet The Merchant of Venice Sonnet 18, 19, 106 Francis Bacon Of truth Of Studies Part Five: 17th Century Revolution and Restoration John Donne Song A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning Sonnet: Death be not proud John Milton “Paradise Lost” “Paradise Regained” Sonnet: On His Blindness Sonnet: On his Deceased Wife John Bunyan The Pilgrim’s Progress Part Five: The Age of Enlightenment 18th Century Rationalism Pope Neo-classicism Realism Daniel Defoe Robinson Crusoe Jonathan Swift Gulliver’s Travels A Modest Proposal Henry Fielding Tom Jones Richard Brinsley Sheridan The School for Scandal William Black London The Tiger The Chimney Sweeper Robert Burns My Heart’s in the Highlands John Anderson, My Jo A Red, Red Rose To a Mouse 19th Century Romantic Period William Wordsworth S.T. Coleridge Byron Shelley Scott Victorian Period Charles Dickens The Brontees Broaning 2. A New Age a. Victorian Age Social stability, industrial progress, advances in Science and philosophy, a splendid body of literature, supremacy of the world. b. 1920s’ England Snobbish class structure, hypocritical. c. 1920s’ Literature Writers paid little attention to the reforming the structure o