British Literature
Chapter 1 Medieval Literature
Geoffrey Chaucer 1343--1400
Chapter 2 English Renaissance Literature
William Shakespeare 1564--1616
Francis Bacon1561--1626
John Milton 1608--1674
Chapter 3 Cavalier and Metaphysical Poetry
Ben Joon1572--1637
John Donne 1572--1631
Chapter 4 The Rise of the Novel
Daniel Defoe 1660--1731
Henry Fielding 1707--1754
Chapter 5 Neo-Classicist Literature
Jonathan Swift 1667--1745
Alexander Pope1688--1744
Chapter 6 Romantic Poetry
William Blake 1757--1827
William Wordsworth 1770--1850
George Gordon Byron 1788--1824
Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792--1822
John Keats 1795--1821
Chapter 7 Women''s Literature in the 19th Century
Jane Austen 1775--1817
Chapter 8 Realistic Novels
Charles Dicke 1812--1870
Thomas Hardy 1840--1928
Chapter 9 Victorian Poetry
Alfred Tennyson 1809--1892
Robert Browning 1812--1889
Matthew Arnold 1822--1888
Chapter 10 English Drama at the Turn of the 20th Century
Oscar Wilde 1854--1900
George Bernard Shaw 1856--1950
Chapter 11 Modernist Novels
Joseph Conrad 1857--1924
James Joyce 1882--1941
Virginia Woolf 1882--1941
D. H. Lawrence 1885--1930
Chapter 12 The 20th-Century Poetry
William Butler Yeats 1865--1939
T. S. Eliot 1888--1965
W. H. Auden 1907--1973
Dylan Thomas 1914--1953
Philip Larkin 1922--1985
Ted Hughes 1930--1998
Chapter 13 Novels in the Postmodern Period
William Golding 1911--1993
Doris Lessing1919--
John Fowles 1926--2005
American Literature
Chapter 1 Romantic Novels
Washington Irving 1783--1859
Herman Melville 1819--1891
Chapter 2 Tracendentalist Essays
Ralph Waldo Emeon1803--1882
Henry David Thoreau 1817--1862
Chapter 3 Dark Romanticist Literature
Edgar Allan Poe 1809--1849
Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804--1864
Chapter 4 American Romantic Poetry
Walt Whitman1819--1892
Emily Dickion1830--1886
Chapter 5 Realistic and Naturalistic Novels
Mark Twain 1835--1910
Theodore Dreiser1871--1945
Chapter 6 American Modern Novels
Henry James 1843--1916
Stephen Crane 1871--1900
Chapter 7 The Rise of Women Literature
Kate Chopin1851--1904
Edith Newbold Wharton1862--1937
Chapter 8 The Lost Generation Literature
Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald 1896--1940
Ernest Hemingway 1899--1961
Chapter 9 American Modern Poetry
Ezra Pound 1885--1973
William Carlos Williams 1883--1963
Robert Frost 1874--1963
Chapter 10 Southern Literature
William Faulkner 1897--1962
Robert Penn Warren 1905--1989
Chapter 11 American Drama
Eugene O''Neill 1888--1953
Chapter 12 Postmodern Literature
Joseph Heller 1923--1999
Allen Giberg 1926--1997
Sylvia Plath 1932--1963
Chapter 13 Ethnic Literature
Langston Hughes 1902--1967
Saul Bellow 1915--2005
Toni Morrison1931--
Maxine Hong Kingston1940--