Important Books of Various Writers of English Literature

The Middle English Period (1066-1500)
important Writers
⇨ Geofrey Chaucher
⇨ Sir Thomas Moore
⇨ John Wycliff
⇨ Thomas Sackville
⇨ Thomas Norton

Geoffrey Chaucher
Books
⇨ The Book of Duchess
⇨ Troilus and Criseyde
⇨ Anelida and Arcite
⇨ The Story of Griselda
⇨ The Nun's Priest's Tale
⇨ The House of Fame
⇨ The Parliament of Fowls
⇨ The Legend of Good Women

Sir Thomas More
Books
⇨ The Utopia

John Wycliffe
Books
⇨ On the Truth of Holy Scripture
⇨ On Simony

Thomas Sackville & Thomas Norton
Plays
⇨ Gorboduc

The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
Edmund Spenser
Books
⇨ The Shepherd's Calender
⇨ The Faerie Queen
⇨ Four Hymns
⇨ Amoretti
⇨ Astrophel

Sir Philip Sydney
Books
⇨ Arcadia
⇨ An Apology for Poetry
⇨ Astrophel And Stella

John Lyly
Books
⇨ Campaspe
⇨ Sapho and Pha
⇨ King Midas
⇨ Euphues

Robert Greene
Books
⇨ Friar Bacon and Friar Bangay
⇨ James-IV
⇨ Alphossus
⇨ The Looking Glass for London And England
⇨ Orlando

Thomas Kyd
Play
⇨ The Spanish Tragedy

Francis Bacon
Essays
⇨ Of Truth
⇨ Of Death
⇨ Of Revenge
⇨ Of Adversity
⇨ Of Parents and Children
⇨ Of Marriage and Single Life
⇨ Of Envy
⇨ Of Love
⇨ Of Great Place
⇨ Novum Organum
⇨ History Of Life and Death
⇨ The New Atlantis
⇨ Of Study

Christopher Marlowe
Plays
⇨ Tamburlaine the Great
⇨ The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus
⇨ Edward II
⇨ The Massacre of Paris
⇨ The Jew of Malta
⇨ The Passionate Shepherd to His Love

William Shakespeare
Tragedy Plays
1. Antony and Cleopatra
2. Coriolanus
3. Cymbeline
4. Hamlet
5. Julius Caesar
6. King Lear
7. Macbeth
8. Othello
9. Romeo and Juliet
10. Timon of Athens
11. Titus Andronicus
12. Troilus and Cressida

Comedy Plays:
1. All's Well that ends well
2. As you like it
3. A Midsummer Night's Dream
4. Comedy of errors
5. Love's Labour's Lost
6. Measure for Measure
7. Merry wives of windsor
8. Much Ado About Nothing
9. Pericles, Prince of Tyre
10. The Merchant of Venice
11. The Taming of the Shrew
12. The Tempest
13. The Winter's Tale
14. Twelfth Night
15. Two Gentlemen of Verona

Narrative Poems:
⇨ A Lover's Compliant
⇨ The Rape of Lucrece
⇨ Venus and Adonis

Lost plays:
⇨ Love's Labour's Won 
⇨ The History of Cardenio

Unpublished Plays
⇨ Timon of Athens

Other Poems
⇨ The Passionate Pilgrim (Collection of 20 poems)
⇨ The Phoenix and the Turtle

The Jacobian Period (1603-1625)
John Donne
Poems:
⇨ The Canonoization
⇨ The Good Morrow
⇨ The Sun Rising
⇨ A Valediction
⇨ Loves Growth
⇨ The Ecstasy
⇨ Twicknam Garden

Ben Jonson
Plays:
⇨ A tale of tub
⇨ Everyman in his humour
⇨ Everyman out of his humour
⇨ Volpone
⇨ The Silent woman
⇨ The alchemist
⇨ The isle of dogs
⇨ The case is Altered
⇨ Bartholomew fair
⇨ The new Inn or The Light Heart

Cyril Tourneur
Plays:
⇨ The Revenger's Tragedy
⇨ The Atheist's Tragedy

John Webster
Plays:
⇨ The white Devil
⇨ The Devil's Law case
⇨ The Duchess of Malfi

The Caroline Period (1625-1649)
Robert Herrick
Poems:
⇨ Hesperides
⇨ To Daffodils

George Herbert
Poems:
⇨ Easter wings
⇨ The Collar
⇨ The Temple
⇨ Of the Progress of the soul

The Commonwealth Period (1649-1660)
Thomas Hobbes
Books:
⇨ Leviathan

John Milton
Books:
⇨ Paradise Lost
⇨ Paradise Regained
⇨ Samson Agonists
⇨ Lycidas

Poems:
⇨ On Shakespeare
⇨ Pamphlet
⇨ Areopagitica
⇨ Sonnets
⇨ How Soon Hath Time

Jeremy Taylor
Prose:
⇨ Holy Living
⇨ Holy Dying

Andrew Marvell
Poems:
⇨ To his coy mistress
⇨ The garden
⇨ An Horatian ode upon Cromwell's Return from Ireland
⇨ The Mower's song
⇨ Upon Appleton House

The Restoration period (1660-1700)
Samuel Butler
Idyl:
⇨ Hudibars

John Bunyan
Story:
⇨ The Pilgrim's Progress

John Dryden
Books:
⇨ All for Love (Play)
⇨ The Indian Emperor (Play)
⇨ Aurge-Zebe (Drama)
⇨ Absalom and Achitophel (Poem)
⇨ Mac Elecknoe (Verse)
⇨ The Essay on Dramatic Poesie (Essay)

The Augustan Period (1700-1745)
Daniel Defoe
Novels:
⇨ Robinson Crusoe
⇨ The Father Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
⇨ Captain Singleton
⇨ Colonel Jack
⇨ Roxana

Jonathan Swift
Novels:
⇨ Gulliver's Travels
⇨ A Tale of a Tub
⇨ A Modest Proposal
⇨ A Voyage of Lilliput
⇨ Drapier's Letters
⇨ The Battle of the Book

William Congreve
Dramas:
⇨The Way of the world
⇨ Love for Love (Comedy)
⇨ The old Bachelor
⇨ The Double Dealer
⇨ The mourning Bride

Alexander Pope
Poems:
⇨ An Essay on Man
⇨ Essay on Criticism
⇨The Duncan
⇨ The Iliad of Homer
⇨ Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot

Samuel Richardson
Novels:
⇨ Pamela
⇨ The Virtue of Rewarded
⇨ Clarissa
⇨ The History Of Sir Charles Grandison

The Age Of Sensibility (1745-1785/98)
Henry Fielding
Novels:
⇨ An Apology for the Life of Mrs. Shamela Andrews
⇨ Joseph Andrews
⇨ Tom Jones
⇨ Top Secret

Samuel Johnson
Books:
⇨ A Voyage to Abyssinia
⇨ Preface to Shakespeare
⇨ The False alarms
⇨ London: A Poem
⇨ The Tragedy Of Irene

Pamphlet:
⇨ The Patriot

Thomas Gray
Poems:
⇨ Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
⇨ Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat
⇨ The Paths of Glory
⇨ Celestial Fire
⇨ Far from the Madding Crowed
⇨ Kindred spirit

William Blake
Books:
⇨ Songs of Innocence
⇨ Songs of Experience
⇨ The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
⇨ The Four Zoas
⇨ Milton a poem

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)
William Wordsworth
Poems:
⇨ Daffodils
⇨ Goody Blake
⇨ Lucy
⇨ Michael
⇨ Ode to Duty
⇨ The Excursion
⇨ The Idiot boy
⇨ The Preclude
⇨ The Recluse
⇨ The Solitary Reaper
⇨ The Thorn
⇨ Tintern Abbey
⇨ To the Cuckoo
⇨ Written in March
⇨ Poetry book
⇨ Lyrical Ballads ( With S.T Coleridge)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (S.T. Coleridge)
Poems:
⇨ Biographia Literaria
⇨ Dejection: An Ode
⇨ Fears in Solitude
⇨ Ode to Departing Years
⇨ The Day Dream
⇨ The Destiny of Nations
⇨ The Devils Though
⇨ The Nightingale
⇨ The Religious musings
⇨ The Rime of Ancient Mariner
⇨ The Suicide Arguments
⇨ The Wanderings Of Chain

Poetry Books:
⇨ Lyrical Ballads ( With William Wordsworth)

Jane Austen
Novels:
⇨ Emma
⇨ Love and Friendship
⇨ Mansfield Park
⇨ Northanger Abbey
⇨ Persuasion
⇨ Pride and Prejudice
⇨ Sanditon
Sense and Sensibility
⇨ The History of England

Percy Bysshe Shelly
Poems:
⇨ Ode to the West Wind
⇨ Ode to a Skylark
⇨ Ozymandias
⇨ Queen Mab
⇨ The Cloud
⇨ The Revolt of Islam
⇨ Alastor; or the Spirit of Solitude

Poetry Books:
⇨ Adonais
⇨ Albrator
⇨ Queen Mab
⇨ The Revolt of Islam

Plays:
⇨ Cenci
⇨ Prometheus Unbound
⇨ The mask of Anarchy

Critic Books:
⇨ The Defense of Poetry
⇨ The Necessity of Atheism

John Keats
Poems
⇨ Endymion
⇨ Hyperion
⇨ Isabella
⇨ Lamia
⇨ Ode on a Grecian Urn
⇨ Ode on Melancholy
⇨ Ode to Autumn
⇨ Ode to Nightingale
⇨ Ode to Psyche
⇨ The Eve of St. Agnes

Sonnets:
⇨ On First Looking into Chapman's Homer

Idyll:
⇨ Imitation of Spenser
⇨ Poems

The victorian Period (1832-1901)
Lord Alfred Tennyson
Poems:
⇨ Oenone
⇨ Lotus Eaters
⇨ Locksley Hall
⇨ Tithonus
⇨ Morte D' Arthur
⇨ English Idyll
⇨ The Lady of Shallot
⇨ The Falcon
⇨ Tears Idle Tears

Plays:
⇨ Queen Mary

Idyll:
⇨ Poems by two brothers
⇨ Timbuctoo

Edgar Allan Poe
Poems
⇨ To Helen

Robert Browning
Idyll;
⇨ Men and Women
⇨ Dramatic Persona

Plays:
⇨ The Return of the Druses
⇨ Colombo's Birthday

Poems:
⇨ My last Duchess
⇨ The last Ride Together
⇨ A Grammarian's Funeral
⇨ Andrea Del Sarto
⇨ One Word More
⇨ The Pied Piper of Hamelin
⇨ Rabbi Ben Ezra
⇨ Porphyria's Love
⇨ Fra Lippo Lippi
⇨ Two in the Campagna
⇨ Love Among the Ruins
⇨ The Patriot

Charles Dickens
Books:
⇨ Sketches By Boz

Novels:
⇨ The Pickwick Papers
Oliver twist
⇨ Nicholas Nickleby
⇨ The Old Curiosity Shop
⇨ Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of 'Eighty'
⇨ A Christmas Carol
⇨ Martin Chuzztewit
⇨ The chimes
⇨ The Cricket on the hearth
⇨ Dombey and Son
⇨ The Haunted Man
David Copperfield
⇨ Bleak House
Hard times
⇨ Little Dorrit
A Tale of Two Cities
Great expectation
⇨ Our mutual friend
⇨ The signal man

Edwin Drood
Drama:
⇨ Joan of Arc

Charlotte Bronte
Novels:
⇨ Jane Eyre
⇨ The Professor

Emily Bronte
Novels:
⇨ Wuthering Heights

Karl Marx
Books:
⇨ Das Capital

George Eliot
Novels:
⇨ Adam Bede
⇨ The Mill on the Floss
⇨ Silas Marner
⇨ Romola
⇨ Felix Holt, the Radical
⇨ Middlemarch
⇨ Daniel Deronda
⇨ The Spanish Gypsy

Sir Richard Francis Burton
Translated Books:
⇨ The Arabian Nights
⇨ The Kama Sutra

Mathew Arnold
Criticism books:
⇨ The study of Poetry

Poems:
⇨ The Forsaken Merman
⇨ The Scholar Gipsy
⇨ Dover Beach
⇨ Rugby Chapel thyris

Leo Tolstoy
Novels:
⇨ War and Peace
⇨ Anna Karenina
⇨ A Confession

Samuel Butler
Novels:
⇨ Ere whom
⇨ The way of All flesh

Thomas Hardy
Novels:
⇨ The poor man and the lady
⇨ Desperate Remedies
⇨ Under the greenwood tree
⇨ Far from the madding crowd
⇨ The return of the native
⇨ The mayor of caster bridge
⇨ Tess of the D'urbervilles
⇨ Jude the obscure

Poems
⇨ In time of the breaking of nations

Maxim Gorky
Novels:
⇨ Mother
⇨ My childhood

Walt Whitman
Idyll:
⇨ Franklin Evans
⇨ Leaves of Grass
⇨ Drum-Taps
⇨ Memoranda During the War
⇨ Specimen Days
⇨ Democratic Vistas

Poems:
⇨ O captain! My captain!
⇨ Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
⇨ When Lilacs last at my Dooryard Bloomed

Emily Dickinson
Poems:
⇨ I taste Liquor Never Brewed
⇨ Wild nights - Wild nights
⇨ I felt a funeral in my Brain
⇨ Because I could not stop death

Saul Bellow
Novels:
⇨ The Adventures of Augie March
⇨ Henderson the Rain King
⇨ Herzog, Mr. Sammler's Planet
Seize the Day
⇨ Humboldt's Gift
⇨ Ravelstein
⇨ Dangling Man

Arthur Asher Miller
Plays:
⇨ All My Songs
⇨ Death of a Salesman

Nelson Mendela
Autobiography:
⇨ A Long Walk to Freedom
⇨ Conversation with myself

Post Modern Period (1939-Present)
Important Writers
⇨ Tony Morrison
⇨ Dan Brown
⇨ J.K Rowling

Tony Morrison
Novels:
⇨ The Bluest eye
⇨ Song of Solomon
⇨ Mercy
⇨ Sula
⇨ Beloved

Dan Brown
Novels:
⇨ Angels & Demons
⇨ The Da Vinci Code
⇨ Inferno
⇨ Origin

J.K Rowling
Novel:
⇨ Harry Potter

The Edwardian Period (1901-1910)
Important Writers
⇨ George Bernard Shaw
⇨ O' Henry
⇨ W.B Yeats

George Bernard Shaw
Novels:
⇨ Immaturity

Plays:
⇨ Caesar and Cleopatra
⇨ Man and Superman
⇨ Arms and The Man
⇨ Candida
⇨ The Doctor's Dilemma
⇨ Mrs. Warren's Profession

W.B Yeats
Poems:
⇨ The Lake Isle of Innisfree
⇨ Leda and Swan
⇨ Sailing to Byzantium
⇨ The Wild Swans at Coole
⇨ The Second Coming

The Georgian Period (1910-1939)
Earnest Hemingway
Novels:
⇨ The Old Man and the Sea
⇨ A Farewell to Arms
⇨ The Sun also Rises
⇨ For Whom the Bell Tolls
⇨ The Torrents of Spring
⇨ Indian Camp


T.S Eliot
Literary Works:
⇨ The Waste Land (Poem)
⇨ The Hollow Men (Poem)
⇨ Gerontion (Poem)
⇨ Murder in the Cathedral (Play)
⇨ The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (Poem)
⇨ Four Quartets

Salman Rushdie
⇨ Midnight's Children (Novel)
⇨ Shame (Novel)
⇨ Satanic Verses

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