Old English P.
Beowulf Manuscript, Exeter Book(10) (elegiac poetry, riddles), Vercelli Book (the dream of the rood), Junius Manuscript
Elegiac poetry: Deor's lament, The Ruin, Wulf & Eadwacer, The wife's Complaint, The husband's Message, The wanderer, The Seafarer
Religious poetry: Caedmon(C's Hymn, Biblical paraphrases), Cynewulf (9)(Christ, Saints' Lives) The Dream of the Rood(10)
Prose: King Alfred (9) Pastoral Care, The Consolation of Philosophy, Ecclesiastical History of the Eng Ppl, History against the Pagans, The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle) Aelfric (10-11)Catholic Homilies, Lives of Saints, Latin Grammar, The Colloquy
Wulfstan- Sermo Lupi ad Anglos - The Sermon of the Wulf to the English
Middle English P. 1066-1485
Chaucer (14): The Romaunt of the Rose, The Book of the Duchess, The House of Fame, The Parl. Of Fowls, Troilus & Criseyde- historical romance, The Legend of Good Women. Canterbury Tales:
The Franklin's Tale - Breton lay, The Miller's Tale - fabliaux, Pardoner's Tale- exemplum, The Monk's Tale- tragedies.
Medieval Romance: chansons de geste, Marie de France's lais, Chrtien de Troyes's chivalric romances (Lancelot&Perceval, Erec&Eneide, Cliges, Yvain), Early Eng romances: King Horn, Floris&Blancheflour, Havelok the Dane. Bevis of Hampton, Guy of Warwick, Sir Orfeo; Sir Gawain&The Green Knight(14), Chaucer's romances: The Knight's Tale, Troilus&Criseyde, Sir Thomas Malory's Morte d'Arthur(15)
Concatenation- overlapping repetition
Medieval Drama 1.Liturgical drama (10-14),Quem Queritis?- the earliest trope, Visitatio Sepulchri 2.Mystery Plays (Cycles) (14-16)divided into individual pageants: of York 48, Chester 25, Coventry 42, Wakefield 32- the best 2nd Shepherd's Play 3. Morality plays (14-16)- Everyman, The Castle of Perseverance, Mankind, Wisdom, The Pride of Life; place-and-scaffold staging
4.Miracle Plays(10-16) 42 plays of a famous cycle in French: The Miracles of Notre `Dame, Play of St Nicholas; English: Conversion of St Paul, Mary Magdalene
The Renaissance
Tottel's Miscellany - poetry volume of Sir Thomas Wyatt (They flee from me, Whoso list to hunt) and Henry Howard Earl of Surrey(Love that Doth Reign & Live Within My Thought); Sir Philip Sidney Arcadia, Astrophel & Stella, Edmund Spenser The Shepheardes Calender, The Faerie Queene- pastoralism, Ch.Marlowe The Passionate Shepherd to His Love, Sir Walter Raleigh (Answer to Marlowe)
comedies by Lyly and Shakespeare
Civil Wars (Daniel), England's Heroicall Epistles (Drayton), The Faerie Queene (the greatest - Spencer) - patriotic writings
The Cavalier poets - B. Jonson, R. Herrick, T. Carew, Sir J. Suckling, R. Lovelace
Metaphysical poets - J. Donne, G. Herbert, H. Vaughan, R. Crashaw, A. Marvell
John Milton - last Christian humanist: Eikonoklastes (replay to Eikon Basilike), L'Allegro and Il Penseroso, The Doctrine of Divorce, Areopagitica - pamphlet; Paradise Lost, Samson Agonistes (betrayal) theodicea
Hamlet - revenge play
Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus - Christopher Marlowe, tragedies in blank verse
Francis Bacon- essays-> Montaigne, The Advancement of Learning- emds&means, utilitarianism; New Atlantis- progressive optimistic idea, enlightened mind
Restoration: J. Dryden (17) Absalom & Architophel (polit.satire) Marriage a la Mode, The Hind & The Panther (rel.satire) An Essay on Dramatick Poesy-lit. crit., In Praise of St Cecilia- ode
Augustan Age: (18): William Congreve The Way to the World, George Etherge, W. Wycherely- anti-puritan comedies, friv.
Samuel Pepys- Diary, John Locke: A Letter Concerning Toleration, A Treatise on Government; D. Defoe Robinson Crusoe (self-made man, homo economicus), Moll Flanders- picaresque. Jonathan Swift, satires, A Modest Proposal, The Battle of The Books, The Tale of a Tub(critic of T.Hobbes's Leviathan->Erastianism)Gull.
NOVELISTS: Samuel Richardson Pamela, Clarissa, Tobias Smolett Humphry Clinker, Laurence Sterne The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy Henry Fielding Tom Jones a Foundling, Jonathan Wild the Great, The Adventures of Joseph Andrews (comic epic)
CRITICS: Joseph Addison & Sir Richard Steele, “the Tatler” & “The Spectator”; Anthony Ashley Cooper the 3rd Earl of Shaftsbury, Characteristics of Men, Manners, Opinions & Times Samuel Johnson- Dictionary of the English Lg, The Lives of the Poets, “The Rambler”. His biography: James Boswell, “Life of S.J”
The Scribblerus Club: J. Swift, A. Pope (Esay on Criticism, E. on Man, The rape of the Locke, The Dunciad=Anatomy of Stupidity <against Lewis Theobald> John Arbuthnot Adventures of John Bull, H. Bolingbroke The Idea of a Patriot King John Gay- The Beggars' Opera<Berthold Brecht- Opera za 3 grosze>rogues & rascals
Thomas Paine: Common Sense(Am.R), Rights of Men(Fr.R), The Age of Reason(deism) Edmund Burke On American Taxation, On Conciliation With The Colonies, Reflections On The Rev. in France ,An Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs
Beowulf: physical prowess, spiritual strength, unflinching courage, high sense of honour, duty to revenge, loyalty, devotion to his overlord (Hygelac), generosity & responsibility towards his subjects, `thirst for fame', ready to meet his fate performing heroic deeds
Courtly love- voluntary & ennobling service of a knight to a lady of chic choice, for whose he's ready to suffer all kinds of humiliation & discomfort & who guided his actions and thoughts, the knight was the lady's vassal, she was superior, liege lady. He must prove his devotion by all kinds of service. Usually- unfulfilled love. Idealized woman.
Chivalric romance: hero followed the code of chivalry- virtues as courage, honour, courtesy, showing mercy& protection of the poor, weak, civilised behaviour, 3 masters: God, lord & lady, crusader