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Important Information about English Literature

English Literature       ============== Victorian : 1832-1901 Anglo Saxon : 450-1066 Elizabethan : 1558-1603 Renaissance : 1500-1660 Romantic age : 1798-1830 Romantic : 1798-1832 Modern : 1901-1939 Post Modern : 1939 Shakespeare: Elizabeth age (1564-1616) Churchill got Nobel: 1953 Novel award introduced in Literature: 1901 TS Eliot born : 1888 . ======================= Age/Period ======================= Golden age: Elizabeth I age Mid English Period: 1066-1500 Modern Poet: TS Eliot Oldest Period: Anglo Saxon Romantic Age Poet: J Keats, Wordsworth Romantic Period: 1798-1830 Shakespeare lived: Elizabeth Reign Victorian age Poet: Robert Browning Victorian period: 19th century . ======================= Types ======================= Shakespeare : Plays/Drama Bertrand Russel : Philosopher(UK) Charles Dickens : Novelist Goethe (Poet) : Germany O Henry famous : Short history Same period belong : ST Colidge + Wordworth Epic Poet :John Milton, Lord Tennyson William Hazlitit : Essay...

Writers of 100 English Literature

1):- Great Expectation, Oliver Twist → Charles Dickens 2):- Faerie Queen → Edmund Spenser 3):- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner → S.T Coloridge 4):- Das Capital → Karl Mark 5):- Riders To The Sea→ J.M Synge 6):- Dialogues → Plato 7):- You Never Can Tell → Christopher Marlowe 8):- Main Kemp → Ad loaf Hitler 9):- Murder In The Cathedral → T.S Eliot 10):- As You Like it → Shakespeare 11):- Paradise Lost → John Milton 12):-Tale of Two Cities → Charles Dickens 13):- Cancer Ward → A. Solzhenitsyn 14):- Pride and Prejudice → Jane Austen 15):- All’s Well that Ends Well → William Shakespeare 16):- Anna Karenina → Leo Tolstoy 17):- Origin of Species → Charles Darwin 18):- Discovery of India → Johor Lal Nehru 19):- Asian Drama → Gunner Myrdal 20):- The Old Man and The Sea → Earnest Hemingway 21):- Julius Caesar → William Shakespeare 22):- Man and Superman → G B Shaw 23):- War and Peace → Leo Tolstoy 24):- Gulliver’s Travels → Jonathan Swift 25):- Heaven and Earth → Lord Byron 26):- Blue Bird → Lor...

Nobel prizes in English Literature

Nobel Prizes in English literature Rudyard Kipling (1907): UK (born in British India) Rabindranath Tagore (1913): India W. B. Yeats (1923): Ireland George Bernard Shaw (1925): Ireland Sinclair Lewis (1930): US John Galsworthy (1932): UK Eugene O'Neill (1936): US Pearl S. Buck (1938): US T. S. Eliot (1948): UK (born in the US) William Faulkner (1949): US Bertrand Russell (1950): UK Winston Churchill (1953): UK Ernest Hemingway (1954): US John Steinbeck (1962): US Samuel Beckett (1969): Ireland (lived in France much of his life) Patrick White (1973): Australia Saul Bellow (1976): US (born in Canada) Isaac Bashevis Singer (1978): US (born in Poland) William Golding (1983): UK Wole Soyinka (1986): Nigeria Joseph Brodsky (1987): US (born in Russia) Nadine Gordimer (1991): South Africa Derek Walcott (1992): St Lucia, West Indies Toni Morrison (1993): US Seamus Heaney (1995): Ireland V. S. Naipaul (2001): UK (born in Trinidad) J. M. Coetzee (2003): South Africa Harold Pinter (2005): UK Do...