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For TGT & PGT ENGLISH by S K Yadav
-: ENGLISH LITERATURE ONE-LINERS :-
01. The Old English Period ( = Anglo-Saxon Period) - 450 to 1066.
02. Athelstan was the first and Harold was the last king of Anglo-Saxons.
03. Beowulf is the most important epic (or, oldest poem) of Anglo-Saxon Period.
04. The story of Beowulf is based on a monster (Grendel) and a king (Hrothgar).
05. St. Venerable Bede is the father of English learning or history.
06. 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People' has been written by Bede.
07. 'The Ecclesiastical History of the English People' was translated into English by King Alfred.
08. Geoffrey Chaucer is the father of English poetry told by John Dryden.
09. Chaucer is 'the well of English undefiled' told by Edmund Spenser.
10. Chaucer was the first to use Heroic Couplet.
11. In The Canterbury Tales, Chaucer's pilgrims go on pilgrimage in April & Total pilgrims were 29.
12. The Pilgrims stayed at Tabard Inn whose host was Harry Bailey.
13. Chaucer is also called the 'morning Star of Renaissance' and John Wycliff is called the 'morning
Star of Reformation'.
14. Wycliff was the first author to translate the Bible into English.
15. Lollards were the followers of Wycliff.
16. William Caxton first introduced a printing press into England in 1476.
17. Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce sonnets into English Literature.
18. 'Ralph Roister Doister' is the first comedy of English written by Nicholas Uddal.
19. Gorboduc (Ferrex and Porrex) is the first tragedy of English written by Sackville & Norton.
20. 'Amoretti' is a collection of 89 sonnets of Edmund Spenser written in 16th century.
21. The preface of Faerie Queene was addressed to Sir Walter Raleigh.
22. The hero of Faerie Queene is Prince Arthur.
23. The heroine of Faerie Queene is Gloriana (Elizabeth I of England)
24. Spenserian stanza was first used in Faerie Queene.
25. Faerie Queene was planned to write in 12 books but written only in six books.
26. Faerie Queene is a moral allegory inspired by Aristotle.
27. Ben Jonson said “Spenser writes no language”
28. Charles Lamb called Spenser a poets’ poet.
29. The first theatre/playhouse of England was 'The Theatre' built in London in 1576.
30. The Globe Theatre was built in 1599 on bank of Thames. It was associated with Shakespeare.
31. Theatre was banned in 1642 at the outbreak of the English Civil War.
32. Theatres were reopened in 1660 after Commonwealth Period or the Restoration of Charles II.
33. Spenser wrote an elegy titled ‘Astrophel’ at the death of Sir Philip Sidney.
34. Sidney’s Apology for Poetry (The Defence of Poesy) written in 1580 but published in 1595.
35. Christopher Marlow wrote only Tragedies. He is the father of English tragedy.
36. Marlow was the first to use blank verse in English drama.
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38. Bacon is the father of English essay and his essays were inspired by Montaigne of France.
39. The first edition (1597) of Bacon’s essays had 10 essays and second (1612) had 38 essays but
last edition (1625) had 58 essays.
40. Jacobean Age refers to the reign of James I & Caroline Age refers to the reign of Charles I.
41. After the death of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell reigned over England.
42. The poets who took side of king Charles-I were called Cavalier or Caroline poets.
43. 'Samson Agonistes' (Greek- Samson the Athlete/Wrestler) is a tragedy written by John Milton.
44. 'Paradise Lost' had 10 books in 1667 edition but it has 12 books (in 1674 second edition).
45. 'Areopagitica' (by Milton) was written to defend the freedom of speech and expression.
46. Milton became blind at the age of 44. He married 3 times in his life.
47. 'Lycidas' is a pastoral elegy written by Milton on the death of his college mate, Edward King.
48. The term “Metaphysical school of poets” was first used for John Donne and his followers by Dr.
Samuel Johnson.
49. An Essay on Dramatic Poesy was written by John Dryden, it is structured as a dialogue among
four friends- Eugenius, Crites, Lisideius and Neander.
50. Dryden’s All for Love is inspired by Antony & Cleopatras.
51. Dryden is called the father of English Criticism by Dr. Jonson. John Dryden was appointed Poet
Laureate in 1668 by Charles II.
52. ''Here is God’s plenty'' has been said by Dryden for Chaucer's characters .
53. Nahum Tate gave a happy ending to King Lear.
54. The Medal is a personal satire of Dryden on Shaftesbury.
55. Eighteenth century was called the Age of prose & reason by Mathew Arnold.
56. ''The proper study of mankind, is man'' told by Alexander Pope.
57. Homer's Iliad & Odyssey, Greek epic poems, translated into English by Pope.
58. The hero of Iliad- Achilles & The hero of Odyssey- Odysseus.
59. The Iliad tells the story of Trojan War, while The Odyssey tells the story of Odysseus's journey
home after the war is over.
60. 'Riders to the Sea' is a famous play by John Synge.
61. The four wheels of Novel are Fielding, Richardson, Sterne, and Smollett.
62. 'Moll Flanders' is a novel by Daniel Defoe (writer of Robinson Crusoe).
63. 'Lives of Poets' is a work by Johnson. It is the biographies of 52 poets of 18th Century.
64. 'The Decline & Fall of Roman Empire' has been written by Edward Gibbon .
65. 'Political Justice' has been written by William Godwin.
66. 'The Castle of Otranto', the first known Gothic novel written by Horace Walpole.
67. Picaresque novels are fictional stories that focus on a rogue character.
68. Shelley was expelled from Oxford University in 1811 after publishing The Necessity of Atheism.
69. In the first edition (1798) of Lyrical Ballads had 23 poems.
70. In Lyrical Ballads, 19 poems written by Wordsworth 4 poems by Coleridge.
71. Of Lyrical Ballads, the first poem is The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and the last poem is
Tintern Abbey.
72. 'Biographia Literaria' is a critical autobiography by Coleridge
73. Elia is the pen name/pseudonym of Charles Lamb.
74. A Defence of Poetry, is an unfinished essay by Percy Bysshe Shelley.
75. Suspension of disbelief or willing suspension of disbelief is a term coined in 1817 by S. T.
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76. Keats said 'my name was writ (written) in water'.

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77. 'A thing of beauty is a joy for ever' is an opening line from Keat’s Endymion.
78. 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold' is a line from W. B. Yeats' The Second Coming.
79. 'Tales from Shakespeare' is a book by the siblings Charles and Mary Lamb.
80. The novels of Sir Walter Scott are called Waverly novels.
81. D.G. Rossetti was leader of Pre-Raphaelite movement.
82. Art for art's sake is one of the features of Pre-Raphaelite movement
83. 'Vanity Fair' (by W M Thackeray) is a novel without hero.
84. Wessex (Casterbridge) is the fictional city/town of Thomas Hardy’s novels.
85. Malgudi is the fictional city/town of R. K. Narayan’s novels.
86. Bulashah is the fictional city/town of Mulk Raj Anand’s novel, Untouchable.
87. The Mystery of Edwin Drood is an unfinished novel of Dickens.
88. 'David Copperfield' is an autobiographical novel of Dickens.
89. A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens refers London & Paris.
90. Tennyson's 'In Memoriam' is an elegy on the death of his friend, Arthur Hallam.
91. Arnold wrote 'Thyrsis' on the death of his friend, Arthur Hugh Clough.
92. Arnold defines poetry as the criticism of life.
93. Henry Fielding referred to the novel as a "comic epic poem in prose".
94. Henry Fielding's famous novels- Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones, Amelia etc.
95. Joseph Aadrews, a novel by Fielding is a reaction against Pamela, a novel by Samuel
Richardson.
96. East is East and West is West is a line said by Rudyard Kipling.
97. T. S. Eliot dedicated The Waste Land (1922) to Ezra Pound.
98. The Waste Land has 5 sections/parts which are 'The Burial of the Dead,' 'A Game of Chess,' 'The
Fire Sermon,' 'Death by Water' and 'What the Thunder Said.
99. Shantih, Shantih, Shantih are ending lines of The Waste Land.
100. 'My great religion is a belief in the blood.. is said by D. H. Lawrence in a letter to Ernest
Collings.
101. Sons and Lovers is an autobiographical novel of D.H. Lawrence.
102. Man & Superman is a play by G. B. Shaw written in 1903.
103. 'The two contrary states of the human soul are Innocence and Experience written by William
Blake.
104. 'Mrs. Warren's profession' is a play based on prostitution by Shaw.
105. Most of the novels of Joseph Conrad are set in sea.
106. Heart of Darkness is a most famous novella by Conrad.
107. Hopkins invented sprung rhythm (an irregular system of prosody).
109. Stream of consciousness was first used by William James in The Principles of Psychology.
110. T. S. Eliot called Hamlet an artistic failure.
111. Eliot used the objective correlative in Hamlet and His Problems
112. 'Seven Types of Ambiguity' is a book by William Empson.
113. Bloomsbury group was founded by Virginia Woolf.
114. George Orwell's '1984' is a prophetic novel.
115. Hamartia is a tragic flaw according to Aristotle.
116. 'God make country and man made town' is a line given by William Cowper.
117. Robert Greene called Shakespeare 'An Upstart Crow'.
118. 'Hell is a city much like London' is a line given by P B Shelley.
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120. Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821) is a work of Thomas De Quincey.
121. In 'Othello', Shakespeare describes jealousy as 'the green-eyed monster'.
122. 'Two Cheers for Democracy' is a book by E.M. Forster.
123. Banquo is a character of Macbeth by Shakespeare.
124. Denouement is the end of a Comedy & Catastrophe is the end of a Tragedy.
125. Peripeteia is change of hero's fortune from good to bad.
126. "Ars Poetica", or "The Art of Poetry" is a poem by Horace.
127. Longinus provides 5 sources of sublimity- great thoughts, noble diction, dignified word arrangement,
strong emotions and particular figures of speech or thoughts.
128. Stephen Gosson wrote “School of Abuse”
129. Timber (Discoveries) is a critical work of Ben Jonson.
130. Wordsworth says that there is no difference between language of prose and metrical
composition.
131. Fancy and Imagination was defined by Coleridge.
132. Shelley says poets are unacknowledged legislators of The world.
133. 'Something is rotten in the state of Denmark' said by Marcellus in Hamlet.
134. John Crowe Ransom is a pioneer/founder of the New Criticism.
133. Alexandrine is a line of six iambic hexameter.
134. A Rhyme Royal is a stanza of seven lines in iambic pentameter.
135. Ottava Rima is eight line stanza in iambic pentameter.
136. Spenserian stanza consists of nine lines: eight lines in iambic pentameter followed by a single
'alexandrine' line in iambic hexameter.
137. Metaphor is the comparison between two unlike things that actually have something in
common..
138. 'All that glitters is not gold' is a line from The Marchant of Venice.
139. Strophe (turn), Antistrophe(Counter-turn) and the Epode (stand) are components of a Pindaric
Ode.
140. Alexander Barclay invented Eclogue (Pastoral poem)
141. The beginning of English drama took place form religious liturgical stories of church.
142. Thomas Wyatt was the first to introduce the Italian sonnet to the English language.
143. Blank Verse was first used by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey in his translation of the Aeneid.
144. The creator of picaresque novel is Thomas Nashe.
145. King Alfred is called the founder of English prose.
146. Dr. Johnson is called the father of biographical criticism.
147. Longinus is called the first Romantic critic by Scott James.
148. Aristotle is called the first scientific critic.
149. Dr. Johnson defined poetry as a metrical composition.
150. Paradise Lost is written in Blank verse.
151. Coleridge describes poetry as that species of composition, which is opposed to works of science,
by proposing for its immediate object pleasure, not truth.
152. Edgar Allan Poe defined poetry as rhythmical creation of beauty.
153. Pathetic Fallacy is a term given by Victorian era critic, John Ruskin.
154. Epistolary novel is a novel written in the form of letters.
155. 'Paradise Regained' by Milton has 4 books and 2065 lines.
156. Chorus was the part of Classical Greek drama.
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158. Crisis is natural outcome of what was happened before.
159. Irony is basically three types- dramatic, situational & verbal irony.
160. Aristophanes is considered as the master of Greek comedy.
161. The three great Greek tragedians are Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides.
162. Milton's Lycidas and Arnold's Thyrsis are examples of Pastoral elegies.
163. Dionysus was the Greek god of fertility.
164. Tragic actors were high-soled boots known as buskins.
165. In Greek tragedies 'Destiny is Character' that means destiny drives or guides the hero.
166. Bacon is the inventor of deductive logic / reasoning.
167. Wordsworth is called the highest priest of nature by Mathew Arnold.
168. The English word 'essay' means 'trial' or 'attempt'.
169. Imaginative characters were first used in essays of Joseph Addison and Richard Steele.
170. Moral choice is everything in works of Dickens.
171. Wordsworth, Coleridge, Southey are called Lake Poets.
172. Sensuousness is the chief feature of Keats's Poetry.
173. Pride and Prejudice is a novel by Jane Austen, its heroine is Emma.
174. Lady Chatterley’s Lover was banned for its sexual freedom.
175. Lucy poems resemble the character of Dorothy (Wordsworth's sister).
176. Fate plays an important role in Hardy’s novels.
177. Samuel Beckett belonged to the theatre of absurd, his famous play is Waiting for Godot.
178. 'Tradition & The Individual Talent' is a critical essay of T. S. Eliot.
179. Twelfth Night is a classic example of a Shakespearean Comedy.
180. Hellenism is a love of Greek art and culture in Keats' Poetry.
181. 'Beauty is truth, truth is beauty' is a line from 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' by Keats
182. 'Metaphysical Poets' is a critical essay by T. S. Eliot.
183. Sailing to Byzantium and The Second Coming are two famous poem of W.B. Yeats.
184. 'Vers libre' is the French name of free verse.
185. W. Faulkner (American) got novel prize in 1949.
186. W. Faulkner won the Pulitzer Prizes two times.
187. Galsworthy said literature has its own reward.
188. Silver Box is the first play of Galsworthy.
189. The theme of Paradise Lost is to justify ways of God to Men.
190. Poem “London 1802” is addressed to Milton.
191. In The Globe theatre red flag was flown for a history play, white for a comedy play and black
for a tragedy play.
192. Rosaline, Orlando, Oliver, Duke Fredrick are characters of As You Like It.
193. Milton is known as the Child of Renaissance and Reformation.
194. Novella is an Italian word for novel.
195. Walt Whitman is known as The Bard of Democracy.
196. Munoo, a 14-year old, is a character created by Mulk Raj Anand in Coolie.
197. Munoo is the hero of Coolie by Mulk Raj Anand.
198. 'Portrait of a Lady' is a dramatic monologue written by T S Eliot.
199. T S Eliot migrated to England from USA.
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201. Shakespeare was born on 23 April 1564 at Stratford-upon-Avon, England & baptized on 26 April
1564. He married Anne Hathaway in November 1582.
202. He has written 37 plays & 154 sonnets in English.
203. He started his education at the Stratford grammar school.
204. He has dedicated his first narrative poem, Venus & Adonais to Earl of Southampton.
205. The Globe Theatre & Blackfriars Theatre are associated to Shakespeare.
206. In 1613 fire broke out in The Globe Theatre when Henry VIII was being performed.
207. Out of 154 sonnets of Shakespeare, 126 sonnets are addressed to 'fair young man' while 28
sonnets are addressed to a 'dark lady'.
208. Generally Shakespeare divided his plays in 5 acts.
209. The Comedy of Errors is a shortest play of Shakespeare with 1770 lines while Hamlet is the
longest one.
210. Ben Jonson said Shakespeare knew small Latin and less Greek.
211. Titus Andronicus, Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, and Coriolanus are 4 Roman plays of
Shakespeare.
212. The First Folio of Shakespeare, published in 1623, is an extraordinary book about half of
Shakespeare's plays.
213. 'What a piece of work is a man' is the line of Hamlet by Shakespeare.
214. 'Frailty, thy name is woman' is the line occurs in Hamlet.
215. Procrastination is tragic flaw of Hamlet.
216. “If music be food of love play on” are words of Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night.
217. “Fair women are as roses” are words of Duke Orsino in Twelfth Night.
218. 'Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them' this
line spoken by Malvolio in Twelfth Night.
219. In Twelfth Night Shakespeare attacks the Puritans .
220. In Antony and Cleopatra the hero dies at the end of the 4th act, but the play continues to the
5th act.
221. In Romeo and Juliet both hero and heroine die together.
222. Sweet are the uses of adversity are words of Duke Senior in As You Like It.
223. 'False face must hide what false heart doth know' are words of Macbeth to Lady Macbeth.
224. 'Neither a borrower nor a lender be' are words of Polonius to his son Laertes in Hamlet.
225. 'The Tempest' was the last finished play of Shakespeare.
226. 'What's in a name ?' occurs in Romeo and Juliet by Shakespeare.
227. John Ruskin said Shakespeare has only heroines, no heroes.
228. Ben Jonson praises Shakespeare as Soul of the age ! The applause ! delight ! the wonder of
our stage !
229. Milton was born at Bread Street in London on 9 Dec. 1608 and studied at Cambridge University.
230. Milton and his first wife Mary Powell had four children. He married 3 times.
231. He went blind at the age of 44 & died of gout in 1674.
232. He was called as 'Lady of Christs', 'Lady of the Light' and 'Milton the Divorcer'.
233. He lived through The Carolin, Commonwealth and Restoration Ages.
234. He was the Latin Secretary during the Commonwealth Government.
235. Masque of Comus written in 1634 by Milton, and performed in 1634 also at Ludlow Castle.
236. Lycidas (1638) was written by Milton on the death of his collegemate, Edward King.
237. He wrote Paradise Lost & got it published in Ten Books in 1667. In 1674 edition it was expanded
in twelve books.
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239. The angel Michael leads Adam and Eve out of paradise.
240. Freedom of will / Free will is the chief doctrine in Paradise Lost.
241. He sold the copy right of Paradise Lost to Samud Simmon in 5 Pounds.
242. The Apple was the Forbidden Fruit in Paradise Lost.
243. "Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven" said by Satan (Lucifer) in Paradise Lost
244. Mulciber is the main architect of Pandemonium.
245. Milton was The Political Son of Spenser said by John Dryden.
246. Milton said 'The Spirit of LORD is upon me.
247. 'Milton cuts us all out, and the ancients too' was said by Dryden.
248. 'Paradise Regained' is the story of Satan's temptation of Jesus Christ.
249. 'Milton was the Devil's party without knowing it' claimed by William Blake.
250. 'Thy soul was like a star, and dwelt apart' said by Wordsworth to Milton.
251. 'Before the greatness displayed in Milton's poem, all other greatness shrinks away' said by
Wordsworth to Milton's Paradise Lost.
252. 'Milton' is an epic poem by Blake.
253. Surdas is often called the Milton of India & father of Blind poetry.
254. Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 at Cockermouth, Cumberland, England.
255. He died on 23 April 1850 at Rydal Mount, Westmorland.
256. Wordsworth became poet laureate in 1843 after Robert Southey.
257. He had an affair with Annette Vallon, they also had a daughter, Caroline.
258. He got married with Hutchinson (Mary Wordsworth) in 1802.
259. The Prelude, autobiographical epic poem in blank verse by Wordsworth, published
posthumously in 1850. It has14 books / sections.
260. The subtitle of 'Prelude' is 'Growth of a Poet's Mind'.
261. 'OH there is blessing in this gentle breeze' is a opening line of the Prelude.
262. Descriptive Sketches, first poem collection by Wordsworth published in 1793.
263. Michael, a poem by Wordsworth in which Michael is also a protagonist. His son's name is Luke.
264. Michael’s cottage is called the Evening Star.
265. The still, sad music of humanity is a line of Tintern Abbey.
266. Byron calls Wordsworth “Moral Eunuch”.
267. John Keats calls Wordsworth “Egotistical Sublime”.
268. 'A lost leader' said by Browning to Wordsworth.
269. Wordsworth's beloved younger brother John died on a ship that sank in 1805.
270. Objective correlative, Dissociation of sensibility and Unification of sensibility are terms of T.S.
Eliot.
271. 'Upon Westminister Bridge' by Wordsworth was written about London when he was going to
France with Dorothy.
272. The only love sonnet of Wordsworth is 'Why art thou silent'.
273. Wordsworth said a poet is A Man Speaking To Man.
274. The Solitary Reaper, poem by Wordsworth in which young woman working alone in a field
singing a plaintive song in Gaelic.
275. Tintern Abbey is a dramatic monologue by Wordsworth.
276. Come live with me and be my love written by Christopher Marlowe in The Passionate Shepherd
to His Love.
277. Mother Hubberd's Tale is the second tittle of Prosopopoia by Spenser.
278. Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) by Samuel Richardson tells the story of a fifteen-year-old
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279. Jack Barthwick is the character of The Silver Box.
280. David Roberts is the leader of labourers (Men's Committee) in Strife by John Galsworthy.
281. Spenser's Faerie Queene was greatly influenced by foreign writers like, Ariosto, Tasso, Homer,
Virgil, Plato, Cicero, and Lucretius.
282. John Builder is a character of A Family Man by John Galsworthy.
283. The Forsyte Saga is a famous trilogy of Galsworthy.
284. Chaucer wrote The Book of the Duchess to commemorate the death of Blanche, Duchess of
Lancaster and wife of John of Gaunt.
285. Pride and Prejudice was first published under the tittle of First Impressions.
286. John Galsworthy became the first president of the PEN Club in 1921.
287. Galsworthy got Nobel Prize in 1932 and donated the prize money to PEN.
288. John Skelton is the narrator of Phyllyp Sparowe.
289. Whitman's collection of poems is called Leaves of Grass.
290. Bacon has written Essays in Aphoristic style.
291. R K Narayan is the first to receive the Sahitya Akadami Award in English writing. (The Guide.)
292. Nissim Ezekiel says Poetry is elusive, to write a poem is comparatively easy.
293. Shakespeare is known as 'The Bard of Avon'
294. Shakespeare is called the father of English Drama.
295. Chaucer is called the father of English Literature / Poetry.
296. Henry Fielding is called the father of English Novel by Sir Walter Scott.
297. William Tyndale is called the father of English Prose.
298. John Dryden is called the father of English Criticism.
299. Aristophanes is known as Father of Comedy (Greek) and the Prince of Ancient Comedy.
300. Aeschylus is called the father of Tragedy (Greek).

SOME POPULAR AUTHORS AND THEIR WORKS

Works of William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Story of two best friends, Proteus and Valentine)
The Merry Wives of Windsor (Sir John Falstaff)
Measure for Measure The Comedy of Errors
Love’s Labour’s Lost The Taming of the Shrew
All’s Well that Ends Well A Midsummer Night’s Dream
The Merchant of Venice Much Ado About Nothing
As You Like It (Rosalind & Duke Frederick) Twelfth Night (Viola Vs Malvolio)
Romeo and Juliet Macbeth
Hamlet King Lear
Othello Antony and Cleopatra
Julius Caesar Timon of Athens (Timon)
Coriolanus Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida King John
King Richard the Second King Henry IV - Part First (Sir John Falstaff)
King Henry IV - Second Part (Sir John Falstaff) King Henry V
King Henry VI - First Part King Henry VI - Second Part
King Henry VI - Third Part King Richard III
King Henry VIII Cymbeline
Pericles The Winter’s Tale
The Tempest (Prospero Vs Caliban)
*Venus and Adonis and Rape of Lucrece (Narrative Poems)

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Works of John Milton (1608-1674)
Paradise Lost (Twelve Books) Paradise Regained (Four Books)
Comus Lycidas (A pastoral elegy)
Samson Agonistes (A poetic play) L’Allegro
Ill Penseroso Areopagitica (Prose Work)
Ode on the Morning of Christ’s Nativity Sonnets (including) On His Blindness
Works of John Donne (1573-1631)
Songs and Sonnets Aires and Angels
A Valediction : Forbidding Mourning The Extasie
Devotions (Sermons in Prose) Of the Progress of the Soul
Death’s Duell

Edmund Spenser Charles Dickens

The Faerie Queene, The Shepheard Calender, Pickwick Papers, David Copperfield,
Amoretti, Epithalamion, Prothalamion, Astrophel. A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations.
Philip Sidney George Eliot
Arcadiaa, An Apologie for Poetrie, Silas Marner, Life of Jesus, Romola, Middlemarch.
Astrophel and Stella.
George Bernard Shaw
Dr. Samuel Johnson
Candida, Man and Superman, The Philanderer,
The Vanity of Human Wishes, The Lives of the
The Apple cart, Pygmalion, The Dark Lady of the
Poets, Preface to Shakespeare,
Dictionary of the English Language. Sonnets, The Millionaire, Heartbreak House.
William Wordsworth W. B. Yeats
The Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, The Excursion, The Countess Cathleen, Discoveries, Byzantium.
Tintern Abbey, To Milton, The Rainbow, John Galsworthy
The Daffodils, Early Spring. The Silver Box, Justice, The Inn of Tranquillity.
Walter Scott Joseph Conrad
Lives of the novelists, Life of Napoleon, Typhoon, Victory, Heart of Darkness.
The Monastery. T. S. Eliot (Thomas Steams Eliot)
P.B. Shalley The Waste Land, Murder in the Cathedral,
The Revolt of Islam, Adonais, Ode to the wind, The Family Reunion, The Cocktail Party.
Defence of Poetry. W. H. Auden (Wystan Hugh Auden)
John Keats Look Stranger, The Orators, Age of Anxiety,
Endymion, Lamia, Hyperion Isabella, Ode to a New Year Letter.
Nightingale, Ode to Autumn, On Melancholy, Rabindranath Tagore
Ode on a Grecian Urn. Gitanjali, The Home and The world,
Jane Austen The Postmaster, Fireflies, The Spirit of Freedom.
R K Narayan
Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice,
The Guide, Mr. Sampath, Swami and Friends,
Emma, Northanger Abbey. An Astrologer’s Day and Other Stories, The
Alfred Lord Tennyson English Teacher, My Dateless Diary, The Man-
The Princess, In Memoriam, Akbar’s Tomb, Eater of Malgudi, The World of Malgudi, The
Sweet-Vender, Waiting for the Mahatma, A Horse
Dora, The Falcon. Two Goats, Malgudi Days, The Dark Room.
Mathew Arnold Mulk Raj Anand
Scholar Gypsy, Essay in Criticism Culture and The Untouchable, The Coolie, Across the Black
Anarchy, God and the Bible. Waters, The Sword and the Sickle, The Private Life
of an Indian Prince, The Big Heart, Seven Summers.

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Kamla Dass 24. To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
Summer in Calcutta, The Descendants, My Story.
25. Lucasta Richard Lovelace
Nissim Ezekiel
Sixty Poems, The Unfinished Man, The Exact 26. Ode upon Cromwell’s Andrew Marvell
Name Three Plays, A Time to change. Return form Ireland
SOME IMPORTANT WORKS AND THEIR
27. The Mistress Abrahan Cowley
AUTHORS
1. Utopia Sir Thomas More 28. The Indian Emperor John Dryden

2. New Testament William Tyndale All for Love John Dryden

3. The Canterbury Tales Geoffrey Chaucer 29. Dancing Master William Wycherley

The Parliament of fouls Geoffrey Chaucer The Gentleman William Wycherley

4. An Epitaph Walter de la Mare 30. Love for Love William Congreve

5. To The Light House Virgina Woolf The old Bachelor William Congreve

6. Piers the Plowman William Langland 31. The Pilgrim’s Progress John Bunyan

7. The Bible Wycliffe The Holy war John Bunyan

8. Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 32. The Grave Robert Blair

9. Gorboduc Thomas Sackville & 33. The Deserted Village Oliver Goldsmith

Thomas Norton 34. Robinson Crusoe Daniel Defoe

10. The Alchemist Ben Jonson Mall Flanders Daniel Defoe

11. Delia Deniel 35. Schoolmaster Roger Ascham

12. Dr. Faustus Christopher Marlowe 36. Gulliver’s Travels Jonathan Swift

Edward II Christopher Marlowe 37. The Spectator Joseph Addison

13. The Wounds of Civil war Thomas Lodge The campaign Joseph Addison

Rosalynde Thomas Lodge 38. The Guardian Richard Steele

14. The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd. The Tender Husband Richard Steele

15. Endymion John Lyly 39. Decline and fall of the Edward Gibbon

16. Essays Francis Bacon Roman Empire

17. The Maid’s Tragedy John Fletcher 40. Pamela (Virtue Rewarded) Samuel Richardson

18. The Duchess of Malfi John Webster 41. Tom Jones Henrey Fielding

The White Devil John Webster Amelia Henrey Fielding

19. A Woman Killed with Thomas Heyweed 42. Romance of the forest Ann Radcliffe

Kindness 43. Song of Innocence William Blake

20. The Broken Heart John Ford Song of Experience William Blake

The Lover’s Melancholy John Ford 44. Elegy Written in Country Churchyard- Thomas Gray

21. Vulgar Errors Sir Thomas Browne 45. The Scholar Robert Southey

22. History of the World Sir Walter Raleigh 46. Biographia Literaria S. T. Coleridge

23. Discoveries of English Nation- Richard Hakluyt Table Talk S. T. Coleridge

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47. Essays of Elia Charles Lamb 76. The God of Small Things Arundhati Roy

Tales form Shakespeare Charles Lamb War Talk Arundhati Roy

48. Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays- Willia Hazlitt Power Politics Arundhati Roy

49. Men and Woman Robert Browning 77. The White Tiger Aravind Adiga

50. The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 78. The Room on the Roof Ruskin Bond

51. Lays of Ancient Rome T. B. Macaulay 79. Midnight’s Children Salman Rushdie

52. Vanity Fair William Thackeray Victory City Salman Rushdie

53. The Professor Charlotte Bronte 80. Train to Pakistan Khushwant Singh

54. Wuthering Heights Emily Bronte The Voice of God Khushwant Singh

55. The Mayor of Casterbridge- Thomas Hardy 81. Kanthapura Raja Rao

56. A modern Lover George Moore 82. Joothan Omprakash Valmiki

57. The Jungle Book Rudyard Kipling 83. Widowhood Pandit Ramabai

58. A Passage to India E. M. Forster 84. India: Our Motherland Swami Vivekanand

59. A Passage to England Nirad Chaudhuri 85. The Reawakening of India J L Nehru

60. Sons and Lovers D. H. Lawrence 86. Unity Amidst Diversity Rajendra Prasad

The White Peacock D. H. Lawrence 87. The Golden Gate Vikram Seth

61. The Animal Farm George Orwell A Suitable Boy Vikram Seth

62. Harry Potter J. K. Rowling 88. The Inheritance of Loss Kiran Desai

63. The Lord of the Rings J.R.R. Tolkien 89. The Shadow Lines Amitav Ghosh

64. A History of Adventure H. Rider Haggard 90. Hear Me Sanjay Shashi Deshpande

65. The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown 91. The Interpreter of Maladies- Jhumpa Lahiri

66. Think and Grow Rich Napoleon Hill Sexy Jhumpa Lahiri

67. The Alchemist Paulo Coelho 92. Steel Hawk Bhabani Bhattacharya

68. Black Beauty Anna Sewell 93. Nations, Nationalism and National Unity-

69. War and Peace Leo Tolstoy Jai Prakash Narayan

70. 1984 George Orwell 94. Woman's Role in National Movement- S. C. Bose

71. Beloved Toni Morrison 95. The Palace of Illusions C. B. Devakaruni

72. On the Origin of Species Charles Darwin 96. The Black Hill Mamang Dai

73. A Brief History of Time Stephen Hawking 97. Abhijanashakuntalam Kalidasa

74. My Experiments with Truth- Mahatma Gandhi 98. Marichhakatikam Shudraka

A Stain on India's Forehead- Mahatma Gandhi 99 Final Solutions Mahesh Dattani

75. Wings of fire A. P. J. Abdul Kalam 100. Half Girlfriend Chetan Bhagat

Ignited Minds A. P. J. Abdul Kalam The 3 Mistakes of My Life Chetan Bhagat

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LITERARY CRITICISM - BOOKS & WRITERS
01. Republic Plato (Greek)
02. Poetics Aristotle (Greek)
03. On the Subline Longinus (Greek)
04. Ars Poetica Horace (Roman)
05. Art Poetique (The Art of Poetry) Boileau (French)
06. The School of Abuse Stephen Gosson (English)
07. An Apologie for Poetrie Philip Sidney
08. An Essay of Drammatic poesy John Dryden
09. A Defence of Poetry, music and stage plays Thomas Lodge
10. Defence of Poetry P. B. Shelley
11. Lives of the Poets (52 poets) Dr. Samuel Johnson
12. Preface to Shakespeare Dr. Samuel Johnson
13. Preface to the Lyrical Ballads Wordsworth
14. Biographia Literaria S. T. Coleridge
15. Lectures on Shakespeare S. T. Coleridge
16. Essay on Criticism (in Verse) Alexander Pope
17. Essays in Criticism Matthew Arnold
18. Characters of Shakespeare’s plays William Hazlitt
19. The English Poets William Hazlitt
20. Principles of Literary Criticism I. A. Richards
21. Practical Criticism I. A. Richards
22. The Sacred Wood & Elizabethan Essays T. S. Eliot
23. Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered Samuel Butler
24. New Criticism David Daiches
25. Anatomy of Criticism Northrop Frye

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