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===Medieval===
===Medieval===
Drama
Drama
* The York Cycle


Poetry
Poetry
Geoffrey Chaucer: ''The Canterbury Tales'', ''Troilus and Criseyde''
* Geoffrey Chaucer: ''The Canterbury Tales'', ''Troilus and Criseyde''
* Pearl Poet: ''Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'', ''Pearl''


Prose
Prose
* William Langland: ''Piers Plowman''


===Renaissance===
===Renaissance===
Drama
Drama
* William Shakespeare


Poetry
Poetry
* John Donne
* George Herbert
* Thomas Malory: ''Morte D'Arthur''
* William Shakespeare
* Philip Sidney: ''Arcadia''


Prose
Prose
* Francis Bacon: ''New Atlantis''
* Thomas More: ''Utopia''
* Thomas Nashe: ''The Unfortunate Traveller''
* Henry Neville: ''The Isle of Pines''



===Civil War and Restoration===
===Civil War and Restoration===
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Poetry
Poetry
* Richard Crashaw
* Andrew Marvell
* John Milton


Prose
Prose
* Aphra Behn: ''Oroonoko''
* Aphra Behn: ''Oroonoko''
* John Bunyan: ''The Pilgrim's Progress''


===Georgian===
===Georgian===
Drama
Drama
* Henry Fielding: ''The Modern Husband''
* David Garrick and George Colman: ''The Clandestine Marriage';
* John Gay: ''The Beggar's Opera''
* John Gay: ''The Beggar's Opera''
* Oliver Goldsmith: ''She Stoops to Conquer''
* John O'Keeffe: ''Wild Oats''
* Percy Shelley: ''The Cenci'', ''Prometheus Unbound''
* Percy Shelley: ''The Cenci'', ''Prometheus Unbound''


Poetry
Poetry
* William Blake: ''Songs of Innocence'', ''Songs of Experience'', ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'', ''Jerusalem''
* William Blake: ''Songs of Innocence'', ''Songs of Experience'', ''The Marriage of Heaven and Hell'', ''Jerusalem''
* George Gordon Byron: ''Don Juan''
* George Gordon Byron: ''Don Juan'', ''Child Harold's Pilgrimage''
* Samuel Coleridge: ''The Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner'', ''Kubla Khan''
* Samuel Coleridge: ''The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'', ''Kubla Khan'', ''Cristabel''
* Thomas Gray: ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard''
* Thomas Gray: ''Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard''
* John Keats: ''Sleep and Poetry'', ''Lamia'', ''Hyperion'', Odes, ''Fall of Hyperion''
* John Keats: ''Sleep and Poetry'', ''Lamia'', ''Hyperion'', Odes, ''Fall of Hyperion''
* Samuel Johnson: ''The Vanity of Human Wishes''
* Samuel Johnson: ''The Vanity of Human Wishes''
* Alexander Pope: ''Dunciad'', ''Rape of the Lock''
* Alexander Pope: ''Dunciad'', ''Rape of the Lock''
* Percy Shelley: ''Mont Blanc'', ''The Cloud'', ''Ozymandius''
* Percy Shelley: ''Mont Blanc'', ''The Cloud'', ''Ozymandius'', ''Adonais''
* Christopher Smart: ''A Song to David''
* Christopher Smart: ''A Song to David''
* William Wordsworth: ''The Prelude'', "Lucy" poems, "Matthew" poems, ''Tintern Abbey''
* William Wordsworth: ''The Prelude'', "Lucy" poems, "Matthew" poems, ''Tintern Abbey''


Prose
Prose
* Jane Austen
* Frances Burney: ''Evelina''
* Frances Burney: ''Evelina''
* Jane Collier:
* Jane Collier:
* Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Moll Flanders''
* Daniel Defoe: ''Robinson Crusoe'', ''Moll Flanders''
* De Quincey: ''Confessions of an English Opium-Eater''
* Maria Edgeworth: ''Belinda''
* Henry Fielding: ''Joseph Andrews'', ''Tom Jones''
* Henry Fielding: ''Joseph Andrews'', ''Tom Jones''
* Charlotte Lennox: ''The Female Quixote''
* Charlotte Lennox: ''The Female Quixote''
* Samuel Richardson: ''Pamela'', ''
* Matthew Lewis: ''The Monk''
* Henry Mackenzie: ''The Man of Feeling''
* Ann Radcliffe
* Samuel Richardson: ''Pamela'', ''Clarissa''
* Walter Scott: ''Waverly''
* Mary Shelley: ''Frankenstein''
* Mary Shelley: ''Frankenstein''
* Tobias Smollet: ''Humphrey Clinker''
* Tobias Smollet: ''Humphrey Clinker''
* Lawrence Sterne: ''Tristam Shandy'', ''Sentimental Journey''
* Lawrence Sterne: ''Tristam Shandy'', ''Sentimental Journey''
* Jonathan Swift: ''Gulliver's Travels''
* Jonathan Swift: ''Gulliver's Travels''
* Horace Walpole: ''The Castle of Otranto''


Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding
Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding
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===Victorian===
===Victorian===
Drama
Drama
* Oscar Wilde: ''The Importance of Being Earnest''


Poetry
Poetry
* Elizabeth Barrett Browning
* Thomas Carlyle
* Lewis Carroll: ''Jabberwocky'', ''The Hunting of the Snark''
* Gerard Manley Hopkins
* A. E. Housman: ''Shropshire Lad''
* Christina Rosetti: ''Goblin Market''
* Algernon Charles Swinburne
* Alfred, Lord Tennyson: ''Ulysses'', ''Idylls of the King'', ''In Memoriam A. H. H.'', ''The Lady of Shalott''


Prose
Prose
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon: ''Lady Audley's Secret''
* Charlotte Brontë
* Emily Brontë
* Wilkie Collins
* Charles Dickens
* Benjamin Disraeli: ''Sybil''
* Elizabeth Gaskell: ''Mary Barton'', ''North and South''
* Thomas Hardy
* Henry James
* Margaret Oliphant: ''Miss Marjoribanks''
* William Makepeace Thackery: ''Vanity Fair''
* Mark Twain
* Oscar Wilde: ''The Picture of Dorian Gray'''
* Ellen Wood: ''East Lynne''


===20th century===
===20th century===
Drama
Drama
* Samuel Becket


Poetry
Poetry
* W. H. Auden
* Ruper Brooke
* Dylan Thomas
* William Butler Yeats


Prose
Prose
* Joseph Conrad
* Rudyard Kipling
* D. H. Lawrence
* George Orwell


==Other canons==
==Other canons==
===Great Books===
===Great Books===


===Developing novels==
===Developing novels===
Novel development

Adventure novels

Historic novels
* Walter Scott: ''Waverly'' (1814)
* Walter Scott: ''Rob Roy'' (1817)
* Walter Scott: ''Ivanhoe'' (1819)
* R. D. Blackmore: ''Lorna Doone'' (1869)

Gothic novels
* Horace Walpole: ''The Castle of Otranto'' (1764)
* Ann Radcliffe: ''The Mysteries of Udolpho'' (1794)
* Matthew Lewis: ''The Monk'' (1796)
* Ann Radcliffe: ''The Italian'' (1796)
* Jane Austen: ''Northanger Abbey''

Sensation novels
* Wilkie Collins: ''The Woman in White'' (1860)
* Ellen Wood: ''East Lynne'' (1861)
* Mary Elizabeth Braddon: ''Lady Audley's Secret'' (1862)
* Wilkie Collins: ''Armadale'' (1866)
* Wilkie Collins: ''The Moonstone'' (1868)

Sentimental novels
* Henry Mackenzie: ''The Man of Feeling'' (1771)


===Major plays===
===Major plays===

Revision as of 16:04, 21 November 2008

This is not so much a class, but a guide to the major works of the evolving literary canon. This canon is not modeled off of one particular literary canon, but based on a variety of opinions and canons that pick the major authors of the various English literary movements and their major works.

Comprehensive canon

Medieval

Drama

  • The York Cycle

Poetry

  • Geoffrey Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde
  • Pearl Poet: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl

Prose

  • William Langland: Piers Plowman

Renaissance

Drama

  • William Shakespeare

Poetry

  • John Donne
  • George Herbert
  • Thomas Malory: Morte D'Arthur
  • William Shakespeare
  • Philip Sidney: Arcadia

Prose

  • Francis Bacon: New Atlantis
  • Thomas More: Utopia
  • Thomas Nashe: The Unfortunate Traveller
  • Henry Neville: The Isle of Pines


Civil War and Restoration

Drama

Poetry

  • Richard Crashaw
  • Andrew Marvell
  • John Milton

Prose

  • Aphra Behn: Oroonoko
  • John Bunyan: The Pilgrim's Progress

Georgian

Drama

  • Henry Fielding: The Modern Husband
  • David Garrick and George Colman: The Clandestine Marriage';
  • John Gay: The Beggar's Opera
  • Oliver Goldsmith: She Stoops to Conquer
  • John O'Keeffe: Wild Oats
  • Percy Shelley: The Cenci, Prometheus Unbound

Poetry

  • William Blake: Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Jerusalem
  • George Gordon Byron: Don Juan, Child Harold's Pilgrimage
  • Samuel Coleridge: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Cristabel
  • Thomas Gray: Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
  • John Keats: Sleep and Poetry, Lamia, Hyperion, Odes, Fall of Hyperion
  • Samuel Johnson: The Vanity of Human Wishes
  • Alexander Pope: Dunciad, Rape of the Lock
  • Percy Shelley: Mont Blanc, The Cloud, Ozymandius, Adonais
  • Christopher Smart: A Song to David
  • William Wordsworth: The Prelude, "Lucy" poems, "Matthew" poems, Tintern Abbey

Prose

  • Jane Austen
  • Frances Burney: Evelina
  • Jane Collier:
  • Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe, Moll Flanders
  • De Quincey: Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
  • Maria Edgeworth: Belinda
  • Henry Fielding: Joseph Andrews, Tom Jones
  • Charlotte Lennox: The Female Quixote
  • Matthew Lewis: The Monk
  • Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling
  • Ann Radcliffe
  • Samuel Richardson: Pamela, Clarissa
  • Walter Scott: Waverly
  • Mary Shelley: Frankenstein
  • Tobias Smollet: Humphrey Clinker
  • Lawrence Sterne: Tristam Shandy, Sentimental Journey
  • Jonathan Swift: Gulliver's Travels
  • Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto

Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding

Victorian

Drama

  • Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Earnest

Poetry

  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Thomas Carlyle
  • Lewis Carroll: Jabberwocky, The Hunting of the Snark
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
  • A. E. Housman: Shropshire Lad
  • Christina Rosetti: Goblin Market
  • Algernon Charles Swinburne
  • Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Ulysses, Idylls of the King, In Memoriam A. H. H., The Lady of Shalott

Prose

  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley's Secret
  • Charlotte Brontë
  • Emily Brontë
  • Wilkie Collins
  • Charles Dickens
  • Benjamin Disraeli: Sybil
  • Elizabeth Gaskell: Mary Barton, North and South
  • Thomas Hardy
  • Henry James
  • Margaret Oliphant: Miss Marjoribanks
  • William Makepeace Thackery: Vanity Fair
  • Mark Twain
  • Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray'
  • Ellen Wood: East Lynne

20th century

Drama

  • Samuel Becket

Poetry

  • W. H. Auden
  • Ruper Brooke
  • Dylan Thomas
  • William Butler Yeats

Prose

  • Joseph Conrad
  • Rudyard Kipling
  • D. H. Lawrence
  • George Orwell

Other canons

Great Books

Developing novels

Novel development

Adventure novels

Historic novels

  • Walter Scott: Waverly (1814)
  • Walter Scott: Rob Roy (1817)
  • Walter Scott: Ivanhoe (1819)
  • R. D. Blackmore: Lorna Doone (1869)

Gothic novels

  • Horace Walpole: The Castle of Otranto (1764)
  • Ann Radcliffe: The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794)
  • Matthew Lewis: The Monk (1796)
  • Ann Radcliffe: The Italian (1796)
  • Jane Austen: Northanger Abbey

Sensation novels

  • Wilkie Collins: The Woman in White (1860)
  • Ellen Wood: East Lynne (1861)
  • Mary Elizabeth Braddon: Lady Audley's Secret (1862)
  • Wilkie Collins: Armadale (1866)
  • Wilkie Collins: The Moonstone (1868)

Sentimental novels

  • Henry Mackenzie: The Man of Feeling (1771)

Major plays

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