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Selected English-language writers: Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Mark Twain, Virginia Woolf, T. S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie.
This article is focused on English-language literature rather than being limited merely to the literature of England, so that it includes writers from Scotland, the whole of Ireland, and Wales, as well as literature in English from former British colonies, including the US. However, until the early 19th century, it deals with the literature written in English in Britain and Ireland.
English literature is generally seen as beginning with the epic poem Beowulf, the most famous work in Old English, which was written in England some time between the 8th and the early 11th century.[1] Despite being set in Scandinavia, Beowulf has become a national epic of England. The next landmark was the work of the poet Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1343?1400), especially The Canterbury Tales. During the Renaissance, especially the late 16th and early 17th centuries, major drama and poetry was written by Edmund Spenser, William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, John Donne and others. Another great poet, from later in the 17th century, was John Milton (1608?74), author of the epic poem Paradise Lost (1667). The late 17th and the early 18th centuries are particularly associated with satire, especially in the poetry of John Dryden and Alexander Pope, and the prose works of Jonathan Swift. The 18th century also saw the first British novels in the works of Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, and Henry Fielding, while the late 18th and early 19th centuries were the period of the Romantic poets, such as Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley and Keats.
It was in the Victorian era (1837?1901) that the novel became the leading literary genre in English,[2] dominated especially by Charles Dickens, but there were ma

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■ 영문학 (English Literature)
초판 Cover & story
ENGLISH LITERATURE
PREFACE
CONTENTS
FULL-PAGE ILLUSTRATIONS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I  INTRODUCTION--THE MEANING OF LITERATURE
CHAPTER II  THE ANGLO-SAXON OR OLD-ENGLISH PERIOD (450-1050)
CHAPTER III  THE ANGLO-NORMAN PERIOD (1066-1350)
CHAPTER IV  THE AGE OF CHAUCER (1350-1400)
CHAPTER V  THE REVIVAL OF LEARNING (1400-1550)
CHAPTER VI  THE AGE OF ELIZABETH (1550-1620)
CHAPTER VII  THE PURITAN AGE (1620-1660)
CHAPTER VIII  PERIOD OF THE RESTORATION (1660-1700)
CHAPTER IX  EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LITERATURE (1700-1800)
CHAPTER X  THE AGE OF ROMANTICISM (1800-1850)
CHAPTER XI  THE VICTORIAN AGE (1850-1900)
GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX
저자 사진 및 프로필
원서로 읽는 세계 명작 시리즈
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