First,the Old English period of English Literature (499-1066)
1,Beowulf
2,Alfred the Great:Father of British prose
Second,the Middle English period of English literature
1,allegory is very popular body
2,Romance began to rise to a certain height
3,Willian Langlaud "Pierce's phantom farmers"
4,Thomas Marlowe ceremony,"The Death of King Arthur."
Third,the Renaissance English Literature (Elizabethan) (14-16 century)
1,Thomas Moore,"Utopia"
2,Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard introduced sonnet
3,Philips Sidney "The defense of Poesie"
"Arcadia" to describe rural life; pioneer of the modern novel
4,Spencer "Cassiopeia," the poet of poets; Spencer poetry section;
5,Shakespeare:
Long narrative poem:"Venus and Adonis," "Lucy Cox humiliated in mind."
Four Tragedies:Hamlet,King Lear,Othello,Macbeth
Fourth,the Enlightenment (18th century)
1,John Milton:"Paradise Lost","to argue for the British people."
2,John Bunyan:"Pilgrim" religious allegory
3,John Dryden:British outstanding representative of neoclassicism,the poet laureate;
"On the dramatic poetry."
Fifth,Victorian English Literature (19th Century)
1,William Wordsworth:Poet Laureate; "Wandering alone," "lonely woman Reaper"
"Lyric Songbook" the most outstanding poems;
"Overture";
2,Coleridge:"Yong Ancient Mariner" "Kublai Khan","Chris Bell"
3,show competition:Poet Laureate; "Thalaba the destroyer" is the show's long epic game one of the most important; one of the "Granma's curse"
4,George Gordon,Lord Byron:"Don Juan"
5,Shelley:"A Duoni" in tribute to Keats,the United Kingdom in the history of one of the most outstanding elegy;
"West Wind Song," "liberated Prometheus," "To the Skylark," "Poetry Debate" (A defence of poetry);
Sixth,the 20th century English literature
1,the angry youth:Kingsley,Amis (lucky Jim); Allen,West off (Saturday night and Sunday morning); John Osborne (angry review);
2,Yeats:Irish people "reed wind" "Kurt wild swans" "towards Byzantium"
