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English Literature for 41th BCS Preli Preparation

English Literature for 41th BCS Preli Preparation

Names of Writers of literary pieces from Elizabethan Period to the 21st Century

• Sir Thomas More :  famous essayist    

Works:

1. Utopia

• Edmund Spencer :  Poet of poets

Works:

1. The Faerie Queene

2. The Shephard's Calender

3. The Ruins of time

4. The Amoretti (Sonnets)

• Christopher Marlowe : The greatest Dramatist before Shakespeare

Works:

1. Doctor Faustus

2. Tambularine the great

3. The Jew of Malta

4. Edward-II

• Nicholas Udall :

Works:

1. Ralph Roister Doister - The 1st English Comedy

• Thomas Kyd : A University Wit

Works:

1. The Spanish Tragedy - The 1st revenge tragedy

• Ben Johnson :

Works:

1. The Alchemist (comedy)

2. Every Man in his Humour (comedy)

3. Every Man out of his Humour (comedy)

4. Epicoene or the Silent Women (comedy)

5. Volpone (comedy)

• Francis Becon : famous essayist

Works:

1. Advancement of learning

2. Novum Orgum

3. Essays

• Robert Herrick : Lyric poet and Cleric

Works:

1. To Daffodils

2. Hesperides

3. Delight in disorder

• William Shakespeare (23rd April, 1564-1616) : The greatest Dramatist of English literature. He is called "Bard of Avon".

Works:

• Plays-37
• Sonnets-154
• Narrative Poems-3

Narrative Poems:

1. Venus and Adonis

2. The Rape of Lucretia

3. The Passionate Pilgrime

Drama: Comedy

1. The Tempest

2. All's well that Ends well

3. As you like it

4. The Merchant of Venice

5. Comedy of Errors

6. Much Ado about Nothing

7. Twelfth Night

8. The Merry Wives of Windsor

9. The Two Gentleman of Verona

10. A Midsummer Night's Dream

11. The Taming of the Shrew

Drama: Tragedy

1. Titus Andronicus

2. Othello

3. Macbeth

4. Hamlet

5. King Lear

6. Romeo and Juliet

Historical:

1. Julius Caesar

2. Cariolanus

3. King John

4. Richard II

5. Richard III

• John Milton : Epic poet

Works:

1. Paradise Lost

2. Paradise Regained

3. Samson Agonistes (Closet Drama)

• John Dryden : Father of Modern English Criticism

Works: 

Plays:

1. All for love

2. The Conquest of Granada

Satires:

1. Mac Fleckonoe

2. The Medal

2. Absalom and Achitophel

Prose:

1. An Essay of Dramatic Poesy

• Alexander Pope :

Works:

1. The Rape of the Lock

2. The Dunciad

3. An Essay on Criticism

4. Essay on Man

• Jonathon Swift : Famous satirist

Works:

1. Gulliver's Travels

2. The Battle of the Books

3. A Tale of a Tub

• Samuel Richardson : 1st Novel writer in English Literature

Works:

1. Pamela or Virtue Rewarded - 1st novel

• Henry Fielding : Father of English Novel

Works:

1. Tom Jones

2. Joseph Andrews

3. Jonathon Wilde

4. Amelia

• Dr. Samuel Johnson :

1. Compiled the first English Dictionary (1755)

2. Established a literary club in English (1764)

• Oliver Goldsmith :

Works:

1. The Deserted Village

2. The Citizen of the World

3. She stops to conquer

4. The good nature Man

• Jules Verne :

Works:

1. Around the World in Eighty Days

2. Journey to the Center of the Earth

3. The Mysterious Island

• William Blake : Was both Poet and Painter

Works:

1. The Poetical Sketches

2. Marriage of Heaven and Hell

3. Songs of Innocence (poem)

4. Songs of Experience (poem)

• William Wordsworth : He is called - Poet of Nature, Poet of Childhood, Poet of Laureat

Works:

1. Lyrical Ballads - a collection of romantic poems (with S.T. Coleridge)

2. Tintern Abbey

3. The Prelude

4. Michael

5. The Excursion

6. The Solitary Reaper

7. The Daffodils

• S.T. Coleridge :Poet of super naturalism

Works:

1. Lyrical Ballads - a collection of romantic poems (with William Wordsworth)

2. The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

3. Kubla Khan

4. Christabel

5. An ode on Dejection

6. Literaria Biographia

• Lord Byron :

Works:

1. Childe Harold's Pilgrimage

2. Don Juan

3. The Vision of Judgement

4. Heaven and Earth

5. Prometheus

• P.B. Shelly : an atheist, Revolutionary poet, Poet of Hope and Regeneration

Works:

1. Adonais-elegy

2. Ode to the West Wind

3. To a skylark

4. Queen Mab

5. Helles

6. Prometheus Unbound

7. Ozymandias

• John Keats : The poet of Beauty

Works:

1. Ode to Autumn

2. Ode to a Nightingale

3. Ode to Psyche

4. Ode on a Grecian Urn

• Jane Austen :

Works:

Novels:

1. Emma

2. Pride and Prejudice

3. Sense and Sensibility

4. Mansfield Park

• Alfred Tennyson :

Works:

1. Ulysses

2. Dora

3. The Gardener's daughter

4. Locksley Hall

5. Tithonus

6. Lotus Eaters

7. Two Brother's

• Robert Browning :

Works:

1. The Patriot

2. Love among the Ruins

3. My Last Duchess

4. Andrea del Sarto

5. Memorabilia

6. Pied Piper of Hamelin

• Charles Dickens : greatest victorian Novelist

Works:

1. David Copperfield

2. The Old Curiosity Shop

3. A Tale of Two Cities

4. Oliver Twist

5. Great Expectation

• Thomas Hardy :

Works:

1. The Return of the Native

2. Far From the Madding Crowd

3. Tess of the D'Urbervilles

• W.M. Thackery :

Works:

1. Vanity Fair

2. Esmond

• R.L. Stevenson :

Works:

1. The Kidnappered

2. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

3. Treasure Island

4. The new Arabian Night

• Sir Walter Scott :

Works:

1. Ivanhoe

1. Patriotism

2. The Lay of the Last Minister

• Rudyard Kipling : Indian Journalist

Works:

1. The Jungle Book

2. Kim

3. Ballad of East and West

• H.G Wells : great science fiction writer

Works:

1. The Time Machine

2. The Invisible Man

3. The War of the World

• Joseph Conrad :

Works:

1. Lord Jim: A tale

2. Heart of Darkness

3. The Secret Agent

4. Under Western Eyes

5. The Rescue

6. The Nigger of the Narcissus

7. The Shadow Line

8. Victory

• E.M. Forster :

Works:

1. Where Angels Fear to Tread

2. A Passage to India

3. A Room with a view

4. The Longest Journey

• W. Somerset Maugham :

Works:

1. Of Human Bondage

2. The Razor's Edge

3. The Moon and Sixpence

• James Joyce :

Works:

1. Ulysses

2. Chamber Music

3. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

• D.H. Lawrence :

Works:

1. The Rainbow

2. Kangaroo

3. Lady Chatterly's Lover

4. Women in Love

5. Son's and Lovers

6. The White Peacock

• George Orwell : (Real name- Eric Blair)

Works:

1. The Animal Farm

2. Nineteen Eighty Four

3. Shooting an Elephant

• Agatha Christie :

Works:

1. The Mother

2. The Big Four

• W.B Yeats :

Works:

1. The Second Coming

2. A Full Moon in March

3. A Prayer for my Daughter

4. Land of Hearts Desire

• T.S. Eliot :

Works:

1. The West Land- a collection of poems

2. The Hollow Men

1. Ash Wednesday

2. The Family Reunion

3. Four Quarters

4. The Cocktail Party

5. Murder in the Cathedral

6. Poems

7. Selected Essays

• G.B. Shaw :

Works:

1. Man and Superman

2. Saint John

3. Arms and the Man

4. The Devis discipline

5. Pygmalion

6. The Apple Cart

7. Heart-Break House

8. Major Barbara

9. Doctor's Dilemma

10. Cardida

11. You Never can Tell

12. Caesar and Cleopatra

• Earnest M Hemingway :

Works:

1. The Sun Also Rises

2. A Farewell to Arms

3. The old Man and the Sea

4. For whom The Bell Toll

• Jean Paul Sartre :

Works:

1. Nausea

2. Being and Nothingness: An Essay on Phenomenological

3. Ontology

4. No Exit

5. The Roads to Freedom

• Salman Rushdie :

Works:

1. Midnight's Children

1. Shame

2. The Satanic Verses

• Mark Twain :

Works:

1. Life on Mississipi

2. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

3. The Adventures of Tom Sawyer

• O'Henry : (Real name- William Sydney Porter)

Works:

1. The Gift of the Magi
2. Sixes and Sevens
3. Road Destiny
4. Cabbage and Kings

Written by : Fatema Sharmin Rikta