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English literature
Name of the period Duration (Year)
1. The old English period/The Anglo-Saxon period 450-1066
2. The middle English period/the age of Chaucer
a. Anglo-Norman period -1066-1340 (Dark age)
b. The age of Chaucer -1340-1400
c. Barren age -1400-1485
1066-1500
3. The Renaissance period
a. Elizabethan age -1558-103
b. Jacobean age-1603-1625
c. Caroline age-1625-1649
d. Common wealth period-1649-1660
e. Or Puritan period-1620-1660
1500-1660
4. The Neoclassical period (Satirical period)
a. Restoration period – 1660-1700
b. The Augustan/ Pope- period – 1700-1745
c. The age of sensibility or the age of Jhonson-1745-1785
1660-1785
5. The Romantic period 1798-1832
6. The Victorian period 1832-1901
7. The modern period 1901-1939
8. The post-modern period 1939-till date
1. The old English period/The Anxlo-Saxgon period 450-1066
Major works:
- Beowulf-the earliest epic (Anonymus)
- The Anglo-Saxon chronicle –the earliest prose
2. The Middle English period 1066-1500
Major works:
- Columbus discovered the America in 1492
- Vasco the Gama reached India in 1498
Writer name Criterion
Jhon Wycliffe (1320-1384) - The father of English prose
- The morning star of Renaissance
- Translation of the Bible into English –(prose)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400) - The father of English
language/literature/poetry
- The first great English story-teller

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- The first great modernist
- The Canterbery Tales-1400){was first printed
in1478}
- The Nun’s priest Tale
Sir Thomas Malory - Morte D’ Arthur (1485,Prose)
Dante (Italian poet) - The father of the Italian language
- La Divina Comedy
The Renaissance Period (rebirth, revival of learning) 1500-1660
Humanism, Individualism, nationalism, a new sprit to know the unknown to see the unseen, breaking
the old thoughts-all were found in this age. The Renaissance was the idea of the Divine rights of the
kings to rule. At first renaissance was began at1453
a. The Elizabethan age -1558-1603:
- The most glorious age of English literature
- The golden age of English literature
- Political chaos and religious conflict came to an end, stability was attained and political
prosperity began.
- এ যুগে University Wits (Marlowe, Kyd, Nashe, Greene, Lyly & Peele, because they were the
witty(উম্নাধনা) students of Cambridge and Oxford University) দের খুগে পাওয়া যায়।
Major writers Works
Thomas More (1478-1535) - Utopia –novel
Nicholas Udall - Ralph Roister Doister-the first English comedy
Norton and Sackville - Gorboduc –the first English tragedy
Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)
- Contemporary of William
Shakespeare
- Also called poets poet and court
poet
- Also as Divine Master/Principle
Poet/The Prince of Poet
- The child of Renaissance and
Reformation
- Astrophel: a pastoral elegy upon the death of
sir Philip Sidney (1595)
- The shepherd’s calendar -1579(রাখালিয়া
বারমাস্যা)– dedicated to Sir Philip Sidney
- The faerie Queen-allegorical (রুপক) romance
(also an epic)-charecters: The red cross knight,
Una, The Dwarf, Acrhimago, Morpheus,
Fedessa (or Deussa)
- Collection of 89 sonnets-Amorette
Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)
- A famous critic of Elizabethan age
- An apology for poetry (1595) –a critical
treatise
- Astrophel and Stella (sonnet)
- Arcadia (1590) – a book that bears the embryo
of English novel.
Francis Bacon (1561-1626) –Philosopher
and Essayist
- Father of the English essay
- He was the member of parliament
- The great instauration (Novum Organum) –
(latin)
- The new Atlantis –novel
- Of marriage and single life, Of love, Of truth,

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(MP)
- Alexander pope honoured Bacon
by the comment of-“the wisest,
brightest,
Of studies, Of great place, Of Revenge
(quotation-Revenge is a kind of wild justice)
- Essays(1597)
Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) {only29}
- Father of the English tragedy (play
writer)
- Predecessors/contemporary of
Shakespeare
- True founder of English drama
- The tragical history of doctor Faustus (1588)
- Jew of malta
- Timur’s life is reflected in the play-
Tamburlaine the great
- His only one poem-Hero and leander
William Shakespeare (26 April 1564-23
April 1616)
- Was born at Startford-upon-Avone
- Greatest English dramatist
- Known as Bird of Avon/ Father of
English drama
- He wrote 37 plays, 154 sonnets
and 2 long narrative poems
- He was also an actor
- He acted in Ben Jonson’s play “Every man in
his Humour”
- His wife was Anne Hathewey
- তার পড়া-দিখা স্ম্পগকে দতমন লকছু োনা যায় না। his real
teacher were Men, Wo mwn a n d
Na t u r e
Shakespeare poem’s:
- Venous and Adonis-first poem
- The rape of Lucrece
Tragedies of Shakespeare’s:
a. Romeo and Juilet-1592
b. Julius Ceaser-1601
- “Cowards die many times before
their death; The valiant
(স্াহস্ী)never taste of death but
once”
c. Hamlet-1602
- “ To be, or not to be: that is the
question”
- “Frailty thy name of women”- this
is the first soliloquy (স্বেগতালি) of
Hamlet
- “Brevity is the soul of wit”
- “When sorrows come, they come
not single spices, but in battalions”
- “A little more than kin, and less
than kind”
- “ There is nothing either good or
bad, but thinking makes it so”
d. Othello-1604
- “ T’ is neither here nor there”
e. Machbeth-1605
- “Fair is foul, and foul is fair”
- “ L ook like the innocent flower
Comedies of Shakespeare’s:
a. Love’s labours’s lost-1590
b. The comedy of errors-1591
c. The two gentlemen of Verona-1592
d. A midsummer night’s dream-1594
- “ My heart is true as steel”
e. All’s well that ends well-1595
f. The Merchant of venice-1597
- It is about of Jew ( ইহুলে)
- “All that glittes is not gold”
- “It is a wise father that knows his own child”
g. As you like -1599
- “ Under the greenwood tree
Who loves to lie with me?”
- “Sweet are the uses of adversity”
h. Twelfth night-1600
- “If music be the food of love, play on”
- “ Some are born great, some achieve
greatness, and some have greatness thrust
upon them”
- “ Virtue is beauty, but the beauteous evil”
i. Measure for measure-1604
- “Some rise by sin, some by virtue fall”
j. The winter’s tale-1611
k. The tempest-1611 ( last successful drama)

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but be the serpent under it”
- “ All the perfumes of Arabia will
not sweeten this little hand”
f. King lear-1606
- “ Nothing will come nothing”
- “ My love’s more richer than
tongue”
g. Timon of Athens-1607
Histories of Shakespeare’s:
- Henry-4,5,6,7
- King Henry V-“Men of few words are the best
men”
- Richard –II, III
- King John
Ben Jonson:
- First great new-classical author
- Shakespeare was an actor of his
play Every Man in His Humor
- Every Man in His Humor-1616
- Every Man in Out of His Humor-1600
- Volpone-1607 ( Comedy of humor/ abeast
fable-characters-Volpone, Mosca, Voltore,
Corbaccio, Corvineo, Celia, Bonario)
- A tale tub-1640 ; Silent Women-1616
b. Jacobean age-1603-1625:
John Donne (1572-1631):
- Father/innovator of Metaphysical poetry
- Known as-the poet of love
- The Flea by John Donne is a religious
poem
His well-known poems:
- The sun rising
- The good Morrow
Robert Herrick(1591-1674):
- 17th
century English poet
- Ne’er to be found again-was the last line
of “To Daffodil”
His well-known poems:
- Hesperides
- To Daffodils- the central idea is-(life is
short, so live to fullest and here human
being is compared with “Morning’s Dew”)
George Herbert (1593-1633):
- English metaphysical poet
- Most important religious poet
- Both a poet and Priest ( পুরলহত)
His well-known poems:
- Easter wings
- The collar
John Webster - The white Devil
- The Duchess of Malfi
Metaphysical poetry: “Meta” means beyond and “physic” means science of concrete
existence. So, Metaphysics means a subject that deals with which do not have concrete shapes. It mainly
deals with the concept of God, love, soul, death, faith which don’t have concrete existence. In the
beginning of the 17th
century, a group of poets started a new school of poetry which is known as
Metaphysical poetry. John Donne was the father of Metaphysical poetry.
The major poets of this school were Donne, Herbert, Marvel, Henry Vaughan and Richard.
N.B: Metaphysical poetry, the term was used first in 17th
century by an important critic Dr. Samuel
Johnson.
c. Caroline age-1625-1649:

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John Milton (1608-1674)
- Great epic poet who was born in London
- Was the master of Blank verse
- Excels in Dramatic Monologue
- Areopagitica-1644 is phamplet যা লিখা হগয়লছগিা
দিখক, প্রকাশক ও প্রকাশনা স্ংস্তার স্বাধীনতার েনয।
- His friend was-Andrew Marvel who wrote
“the definition of love”
- Paradise lost-1667-(epic)-was his
masterpiece-the perfect use of Blank
Verse was found here. –justifies ways of
God to Man–“ Better to reign in Hell than
in Heaven-Characters: Adam, Eve, Satan,
Beelzebub, Mammom)
- Paradise regained-1671-(epic)
- Samson Agonistes-1668-drama (tragedy)
- Lycidas-1637-দশাকেীলত
Andrew Marvell:
- Was the friend/ follower of John Milton
His well-known poems:
- To His Coy Mistress
- The Definition of Love
The Neoclassical period (Satirical period) 1660-1785
a. Restoration period – 1660-1700:
Milton তার দুলি epics-Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained এই যুগে লিগখগছন
Writers Major works
John Dryden - All for love
- Absalom and Achitophel
William Congreve (1670-1729)
- Famous play writer of this age
- The way of the word (masterpiece)-
comedy of the manner
- The old bachelor, Love for Love
- The double dealer, The Mourning
Bridge
b. The Augustan/ Pope- period – 1700-1745:
Writers Major works
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
- Famous Mock-heroic poet
- “to err is human, to forgive is devine”
- The rape of the lock
- The Dunciad
- The Essay on Man –(Poem)
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745):
- Master of the English satire
- A tale of a Tub -1704-novel
- Gulliver’s Travel-1726-novel
- A voyage of Lilliput
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
Henry fielding :
- one of the best Novelist in this age
- is considered as the father of the
English novel
- Joseph Andrews (Picarseque novel),
Tom Jones, Amelia
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Writers Major works
Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
- Superior poet to others in this age
- Famous for his elegies
- Wrote-“Where ignorance is bliss, it is folly
to be wise”
তার লবখযাত দুলি কলবতা-
- Elegy written in a country churchyard (এলি
তাগক ইলতহাগস্ লবখুয়াত কগর দরগখগছ)
- Ode on the Death of a favourite Cat
William Blake (1757-1827):
- Precursor of Romanticism (but not
a Romantic poet)
- Greatest visionary poet and A fine
artist/engraver/ painter
- Songs of Innocence and of Experience
- The Gates of Paradise
Edmund Burk (18th
century):
- MP, Author, Orator, Political
Theorist and Philosopher
- The founding father of modern
conservatism philosophy
- Speech on East India Bill
- Speech on Conciliation(আগপাস্) with America
- On American Texation
Samuel Johnson (lexicographer-অলিধান স্ংকিক) - Wrote first English Dictionary
The Romantic period 1798-1832
- The age of Revolution /romantic revival/the golden age of Lyrics
- This age began after the publication of Lyrical Ballads
- Features: High Imagination, Love of Nature, Emotional appeal, Nostalgia
(েৃহকাতরতা/অতীতলবধুরতা), Spirituality, Subjectivity etc.
- It is inspired by the French Revolution
- a great change in literature was brought by the publication of The Lyrical Ballads
- Pioneer of this age are Wordsworth and Coleridge
Major writers Major works
William Wordworth (1770-1850): (poet & critic)
- The founder of romantic era/ pure
lover of nature/ the nature poet
- Pioneer of Romanticism
- Lake poet/Poet of childhood
- Close friend of S.T. Coleridge
- His birth place: Cocker mouth,
Cumberland Hill in Lake district in
England.
- Interested in the relationship between
nature and human being
- His belief in the presence of Divine
- The Prelude book-I & II
(autobiographical poem)
- The Lyrical Ballads-1798 (a great
change in literature was brought by it)-
contains 19 poems. (is the volume of
25’s poems-W;s-19 and C’s-6-the
famous poem is-“Tintern Abbey”-by
which his life was reflected
- “I wandered Lonely as a cloud”-the
another name is “Daffodils”-agreat
deal of pleasure
- His literary Citicism-Preface to the
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power is known as –Pantheism
- He was honoured by the Oxford
University with the degree of-“the
Doctor of Civil Law”
- He was appointed as the –Poet
Laureate in 1843
Quotations from Preface to the lyrical Ballads:
- {{{A poet is a man who speaking to
men
- A poet thins and feels in the spirit of
human passions
- A poet feels more deeply than ordinary
man
- A poet has an strong sensibility than a
man
- Every great poet is a teacher
- Tintern Abbey, Michael, the recluse,
the thorn, Simon lee, the Idiot boy,
Nutting are written by Wordsworth.
- Michael’s house is known as –“The
Evening Star”
- Poetry is the image of man and nature
- Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of
powerful feelings
- Poetry and science are
complementary}}}
- Nature never did betray, that heart
that loved her-Tintern Abbey
- Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and Dancing in the breeze-
Daffodils
Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)
- Lake District/Lake poet
- Also known as Romantic poet
- Also known as Supernaturalism
- Collaborator(asst.) of W.Wordsworth
- Was addicted to Opium
- He was appointed as public secretory
general of Malta
Quotations from Biographia Literatia:
- Imagination is the soul of poetic
genious
- Poetry is the first and last knowledge-
it is as immortal as the heart of man
His drama:
- Remorse –a tragedy in blank verse
- Zapolya- a romantic tragedy-an
imitation of Shakespeare’s Winter’s
Tale
His literary criticism:- Biographia Literatia-1817
His Famous poems:
- TRAM-the rime of the ancient
Quotations: [alone, alone, all, alone,
Alone on a wide, wide sea!
And never a saint took pity on
My soul is agony]
Water, water, every where….
- Mariner-is the famous poem of Lyrical
Ballads
- Kubla Khan
- Christadel
- Love and Hope
- Miscellaneous
- Frost and Midnight
George Gordon Lord Byron (1788-1824):
- Rebel poet of England and a Byronic
Hero and national poet of Greek
- He inherited the family title and estate-
at the age of 10
- He received his M.A degree from
Trinity college, Cambridge
- Hours of Idleness (at the age of
nineteen- at first name-Juvenilla)
- The vision of Judgement (1822)-the
best satires in English
- Heaven and Earth (unfinished)-drama
- Don Juan –epic –[characters: Don Jaun,
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- He took part in the war of the –
Independence in Greece
- Byron’s greatest contribution to
Romantic Poetry is his-elements of
Subjectivity
Donna Inez]
- He is compared with our national poet
Kazi Nazrul Islam
Percy Bysshe Shelly (1792-1822):
- Romantic poet/Lyrical poet/a Pessimist
and Optimist
- Poet of Hope and Regeneration
- Poet of “Skylark and Winds”-িারত পক্ষী ও
স্মীকরগের কলব)
- He calls the West Wind as-Destroyer
and Preserver
- He is a revolutionary poet
- Rebelled against all conventional
values
- He was expelled from Oxford
University-for writing the pamphlet-
The Necessity of Atheism
His well-known works:
- Cenci (1820)- a realistic tragedy
- Prometheus Unbound (1820)- a Lyric
Tragedy
- Defence of Poetry- Shelley;s
uncompleted prose.
Major poems:
- Queen Mab-the first long poem
- Allaster
- The Revolt of Islam-1818
- Rosalind and Helen -1819
- Hellas -1822
- Ode to the west-wind-1820
- The Cloud
- The triumph of life
- Ozymandias –[sonnet based-greek story
(ozymandias was the name of a king of ancient
egypt); in ozymandias who saw the statue of
ozymandias in a desert—a traveller; who tells
the poet about ozymandias—a traveller; in the
poem of ozymandias who tells the king of
kings—ozymandias himself; Trunkless legs—
legs without body;the central idea is-all things
both great and small will perish]
- To a Skylark
- To night
- Adonias, an elegy on the death of
Keats-1821
John Keats (1795-1821):
- Romantic Poet who was born in
London
- The poet of sensusness/ poet of beauty
- Keats এর কালবযক েেত (only 5 years) িাগক
লবলশস্টালয়ত করা যায়-sensusness, Hellenism,
negative capability, aestheticism,
escapicism, sense of beaty.
- Negative capabilility means the ability
to keep one aloof from one’s poetry
- Keats was addicted to Opium
- Was a man/poet of –Death haunted
- Was a physician/man of Medicine
- Keats’poetry reflects-a trend of
escapism
Major poems:
- Endymion –the first line is-“ A things of
beauty is joy for ever”
- Isabella
- Hyperion –“The first in beauty should
be first in might”
- Ode to a Grecian Urn- a famous lines
“Beauty is truth, truth is beauty”
“Heard melodies are sweet but those
are unheared are sweeter”
- Ode to a nightingale
- Ode to Autumn
He claimed himself that he had-the negative
capability
He died of Consumption/T.B

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মৃতুয হগে লনচক “ A short Sleep”-Keats
Jane Austen (1775-1817): (মলহিা উপনযালস্ক)
- She was an anti-romantic novelist in
the romantic age.
- She was famous for her romantic
fiction
- Pride and Prejudice -1797-novel
- Sense and Sensibility-1797-1796-a
novel
- Emma-novel
The Victorian period 1832-1901
- This age is named after Queen Victoria who reigned over England from 1837-1901
- The main features of this age are medievalism, symbolism, sensuousness, truthfulness
and simplicity.
- This age is the golden age of novel.
- Conflict between science and religion after the publishing Dawrin’s The Origin of Species
- The first Reformation Act-1832, the second Reformation Act-1867 and the third
Reformation Act in1884 gave the voting right every male.
- 1833 স্াগি োস্ প্রথা লবিুপ্ত হয়।
- এ স্ময় Fabian Society েলিত হগয়লছি এবং G.B. Shaw লছগিন এর স্েস্য।
Major writers Major works
Alferd Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)
- He was the leading poet of this age
- He was also known as the
Representative poet /Founder and
symbol of –Hope and Aspiration
- He is best known for his melodious
language & got Doctor of law from
oxford university
- After the death of Wordsworth he was
selected as-Poet Laureate
- at Cambridge Tennyson wrote-
Timbuctoo –which brought
Chanceller’s Gold Medel
His major poems:
- Morte D’ Arthur –the legendary sword
of King Arthur is –Excaliber
- Ulysses
- Tithonus
- Locksley Hall
- Lotus Eaters
- In Memoriam-1850-an elegy
His drama:
- Queen Mary
Robert browning (1812-1889)
- Was victorian major poets, the
innovator/father of Dramatic
Monologue
- Men and Women –is famous for its
Blank verse and Dramatic Monologue
- “Italy was my University”-is told by-
Robert Browning
His major poems:
- Fra lippo lippi
- The last ride together
- A grammarian’s Funeral
- My last Duchess
- Prophyria’s lover
- Love among the ruins
Mathew Arnold (1822-1868): His poems:

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- For poetry composition he won-The
Newdigate Prize
- His literary criticism-The study of
poetry
- The Scholar Gipsy
- Rugby Chapel-an elegy on the death of
his father
- Thyrsis-on the death of Clough
- Memorial verse-an elegy on the death
of Gate Wordsworth & Byron
Charles Dickens(1812-1871): (Novelist)
- Dickens first book-Sketches by Boz
- Great Expectations (1860)-“Charity
begins at home and justice begins next
door”
His major novels:
- David Copperfield (1850)
- Bleak House (1853)
- Hard Times (1850)
- A Tale of two Cities (1859)
Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855): (female) - Jane Eyre-an autobiographical novel
George Eliot (1819-1880): (female novelist)
- George Eliot is the pen name of- Marry
Ann Evans
- The Spanish Gypsy –an epic
- Adam Bede
- Middle March
- Silas Marner – a famous novel
Thomas Hardy(1840-1928):
- Novelist, poet and short story writer
His famous poem:
- In time of the Breaking of Nations
Hardy’s novel:
- Far from madding crowd (1874)
- Tess of the D’Urberviles (1891)-“The
greater the sinner, the greater the
saint”
- Under The Greenwood tree (1872)
- Jude the Obscure (1895)
Alexander Dumas - Three musketeers-novel
The Modern Period 1901-1939
The Post Modern Period 1939-Onward
- Imperialism became a disturbing factor in the word
- Dominated by Novelists
- Stream of consciousness or The use of the interior monologue -এই দুলি লবষয় লছি
উপনযালস্কগের অস্ত্র।
Major writers Major works
Joseph Conrad (1857-1924):
- First novel was-Almayer’s Folly
- Heart of Darkness-novel
- The western eyes -novel
***George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950):
- Greatest British (Irish) Dramatist and
socilist next to only to Shakespeare
- Awarded novel prize in literature in
1925
- Caesar and Cleopatra
- The Man of Destiny
- The Doctor’s Dilema
- Arms and the Man[35th
BCS]-“Nine
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our duty to live as long as we can”
- Man and Superman-“There is no love
sincerer than the love of food”. “A
learned man is an idler who kills time
with study”. “youth, which is given
everything, forgives itself nothing”
- Candida [36th
BCS]
William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)
- English(Irish) poet dramatist and critic
- Famous for his use of symbolism and
mysticismctin
- wrote the introduction of Gitanjali for
Robindranath Tagore
- Novel prize in literature in 1923
His major poems:
- The lake Isle Of Innisfree[35th BCS]-poem
- Easter 1916-“All changed, changed
utterly, A terrible beauty is born”
- The second coming
- A prayer for my daughter
- The wild swans at coole
J o h n Millington Synge (1871-1909) - Riders to the sea (1904) [35th
BCS]
Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)
- Was a British Philosopher
- Awarded novel prize in literature in
1950
- Proposed Roads to Freedom
- Marriage and Morals
- Political Ideals
- Why I am not a Christian
- The Analysis of Mind
- History of the western philosophy
David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930):
- Famous modern novelist
- Sons and Lovers (1913) –
autobiographical novel
- The Rainbow (1915)-novel
- Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Virginia Woolf(1882-1941):
- English novelist
- The Voyage Out (1915)-first novel
- To The lighthouse (1927)
- A Room of One’s Own -1929-
eassy/prose
Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970):
- Was famous novelist
- His famous essay-My wood
- A Passage to India (1924)-“We may
hate one another, but we hate you
most”. “God has put us on eath to our
neighbours and to show it”
T.S Eliot (1888-1965):
- poet, dramatist and critic
- was famous for his Theory of Objective
Correlative
- awarded novel prize in literature in 1948
- was born in USA [13th
BCS]
- The Love Song J. Prufrock –poem-“I
have measured out of my life with
coffee spoons”. “I grow old..i grow old”
- The Waste Land-poem
- Murder in the Cathedrel-(1935)-play
- The Family Reunion (1939)-Play
- The Cocktail Party (1950)-Play

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George Orwell (1903-1950):
- Real name was Eric Arthur
- Was a police officer of British India
(ASP)
- Animal Farm (1945)-novel
- Shootingan Elephant –Prose
Leo Tolstoy (Russian novelist) - War and Peace-novel
Robert Frost (1874-1963):
- Major American Poet of legendary
fame
- National poet of American
- The Road not Taken
- Briches
- Mending wall
- Out out
- The death of a Hired Man
James Joyce - Ulysses –famous novel
William Sydney Porter:
- American famous short story writer
- His Pen Name was O’Henry
- The Gift of the Magi-short story
Walt Whitman
- Major American poet
- Nationalist/democratic poet
- Song of Myself-shows love for Man
and own country
Sir Winston Churchill:
- Was prime minister of UK
- Awarded novel prize in literature in
1953
- লতলনই একমাত্র বযলি লযলন হন a n honorary
citizenship of USA
- History of the Second World War
Harold Printer - The Birthday Party-a famous novel
American Literature:
Robert Frost (1874-1963):
Major American Poet of legendary fame
National poet of American
- The Road not Taken, Briches, Mending wall
- Out out , The death of a Hired Man
William Sydney Porter:
American famous short story writer
- The Gift of the Magi-short story
His Pen Name was O’Henry
Toni Morrison The Bluest Eye, Sula, Song of Solomon, Beloved
William Faulkner - Light in August, The Manison
Earnest Hemingway The Oldman and the Sea, A Farewell to arms
Mark Twain - Life on Mississippi, The innocents Abroad
French English Literature:
Victor Hugo Ninety-Three, Hans of island
African English Writers:

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Wole Soyinka - A Dance of the Forests
- The Lion and Jewel(রত্ন/মূিযবান পাথর)
Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Expert
Greek English Literature:
Plato The Republic, The Statesman, The Laws, Symposium
Homer (greek epic poet) The Odyssey, Homeric Hymns
Aristotle (greek philosopher) Poetics, Politics, Metaphysics
Aeschylus (father of greek tragedy) Agamemnon, the Persians, Promethus Bound
Indian English Writers:
V.S Naipaul - A House for Mr. Biswas
Amitav Gosh :
- The Calcutta Chromosome-1995
- The Glass Palace
- The Circle of Reason (his 1986 debut-
(first publication) novel
- The Shadow Lines (1988)
R.K. Narayan :
- The English Teacher (1945)
- Swami and Friends (1935)
- The Dark Poem (1935)
Arundhati Roy (feminist writer) - The God of Small Things -1997
Bangladeshi English writers:
Kaiser Hamidul Haq - Ode on the Lungi
- Poor man Eating
Tahmina Anam - A Golden Age
- The Good Muslim
Nilima Ibrahim (1921-2002):
- Bangladeshi educationist and social
worker
- Bangla academy award-1969
- Ekushey Padak-2000
- Independence Day award-2011
(posthumously)
- Sharat Pratibha-1960
- Begum Rokeya -1974
- Ek Path Dui Baank-1958
- Bish Sataker Meye-1958
- Ami Birangana Bolchi (As a War
Heroine, I Speak)-1994
[I mean who was i? I was nothing but an object, I had no
heart, no mind, no soul. I had just a body, A body that they
could fondle(হাত বুিান/আের করা) and Molest (উিি করা)and
torture, a body that they feasted on (তৃলপ্ত স্হকাগর উপগিাে করা),
a body that needed food for hungry, and water when it
was thirsty. A body that needed to rest to so that it could
serve later][My brother told me, “we will come and visit
you here, but you shouldn’t think of returning home. And
one more thing, you also should not write letters to us.
You are doing fine here, anyway.”]
Jahanara Imam Ekatturer Dinguli (Those Days of 71)
Special titles some literary Persons:
Figures Titles/Pioneers

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Venerable Bede Father of English Learning/History
Alfred the Great The founder of English prose
Geoffrey Chaucer The father of English language/literature/poetry
The first great English story-teller/The first great modernist
John Wycliff The father of English prose/The morning star of Renaissance
Sir Thomas Wyatt The first English sonneteer in English Literature
Dante (Italian poet) The father of the Italian language
Edmund Spenser The Poet of Poet/ Divine Master/Principle Poet/The Prince of Poet
Christopher Marlowe Father of the English tragedy
William Shakespeare Bird of Avon/ Father of English drama
Francis Bacon Father of the English essay
Ben Jonson Father of English comedy
John Donne Poet of love/Father of Metaphysical poet
John Milton Epic poet/ the great master of Verse/ Blank verse
John Dryden Father of English criticism/First poet Laureate
Alexander poet Mock Heroic Poet
Jonathan swift Master of English Satire
Henry Fielding Father of English novel
Samuel Johnson Compiler of first English dictionary/father of English one-act play
William Blake Precursor of romantic poet/both poet and painter
Coleridge & Wordsworth Father of Romanticism
William Wordsworth Poet of Nature/Lake poet/Poet of children
S.T. Coleridge Poet of supernaturalism/opium Eater/Lake poet
Lord Byron Revel poet
P.B. Shelly Revolutionary poet/poet of Hope and Regeneration
John Keats Poet of beauty/poet of Sensuousness
Jane Austen Anti-romantic poet an romantic age
Tennyson A representative poet of the Victorian poet
Robert browning Father of dramatic Monologue
G.B. Shaw The greatest Modern Dramatist
Nicolas Udall The first English comedy writer
Norton and Sackville First writer of English tragedy
Lindley Murray Father of English Grammar
Jules Verne Father of science Fiction
Edger Allen Poe Father of English Mystery Play/father of English short story Writer.
Some writers and their notable elegies:
Writers Elegies For whom the elegies are written
Edmund Spenser Astrophel, Daohnaida Astrophel =on the death of sir Philip Sydney
Daohnaida =on the death of Gouglas Howard
John Milton Lycidas On the death of Milton’s Friend
Tennyson In Memoriam On the death of Tennyson’s Friend Arthur Henry Hallam
P.B Shelly Adonais On the death of John Keats

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Thomas Gray Elegy written in a churchyard On the death of fore Father
Mathew Arnold Thyrsis, Rugby Chapel,
Memorial Verse
Thyrsis=on the death of Arthur Hugs Clough ,
Rugby Chapel=on the death of Arnol’s Father,
Memorial Verse =on the death of Wordsworth, Byron ,Gate
John Dryden Heroic Stanzas on the death
of the Cromwell
On the death of the Cromwell
Pen name and real name:
Real name Pen name
William Sydney Porter O’ Henry
Marry Ann Evans George Eliot
Eric Arthur Blair George Orwell
G.B. Shaw Lee
Important work and their authors:
Works Types Authors
A Brief story of Time History Stephen W. Hawking
A kiss for Cinderella Play J.M. Barrie
Arabian Nights Fairy tales Sir Richard Burton
Prepared by
Md. Jamal Hossain
Dept. of Pharmacy, DU
Email: jamal.du.p48@gmail.com