: Every era is examined through its socio-political and cultural backdrop to explain why certain literary styles emerged. ✨ Student-Focused Features
Here is a breakdown of why this book remains a staple and what it covers: 1. The Scope history of english literature by t singh
| Period | Key Topics from T. Singh | |--------|--------------------------| | Old English | Beowulf , Caedmon, Cynewulf, elegies, alliterative verse | | Middle English | Chaucer ( Canterbury Tales ), Langland, Gower, Malory | | Renaissance (16th c.) | Wyatt, Surrey, Sidney, Spenser ( Faerie Queene ), Elizabethan sonnet | | Elizabethan Drama | Kyd, Marlowe, Shakespeare, Jonson, revenge tragedy | | 17th C. Poetry | Donne (Metaphysical), Herrick, Marvell, Milton ( Paradise Lost ) | | Restoration | Dryden (satire, heroic couplet), Congreve, Wycherley, Pepys | | 18th C. (Augustan) | Pope, Addison & Steele, Swift, Defoe, Fielding, Johnson, Boswell, Gray | | Romantic Age | Wordsworth (Preface to Lyrical Ballads ), Coleridge, Keats, Shelley, Byron, Lamb, Hazlitt | | Victorian Age | Tennyson, Browning, Arnold, Carlyle, Ruskin, Dickens, Thackeray, G. Eliot, Brontës, Hardy (late Victorian) | | Modern Age | Shaw, Yeats, Conrad, Lawrence, Joyce, Woolf, Eliot, Auden, Beckett | | Contemporary | Larkin, Hughes, Heaney, Pinter, Rushdie, Ishiguro | : Every era is examined through its socio-political
