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12/20/2022

ENGLISH LITERATURE
FOR JOB SEEKERS
CADRES’ PRELIMINARY GUIDELINE

About the instructor

Mahir Dyan Amin


B.A (Hons.), M.A, English, DU
Assistant Commissioner & Executive Magistrate (40th BCS )
Former Assistant Director, Prime Minister’s Office

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WHAT WE HAVE HERE TODAY


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ANALYSIS HISTORY OF ENG LIT.
English Lit. Syllabus & Periods & Sub-periods
Question Pattern of English Literature

03 04 05
Major figures Old & middle english chaucer
Literary Figures A Brief Glimpse into The First Master of
from English and Two Literary Periods English Literature
around the World

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Analysis 101
Analyzing Syllabus & Question Pattern

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Syllabus (Total Mark : 15)

❑ Names of writers of literary pieces


from Elizabethan period to the 21st
Century.

❑ Quotations from drama/poetry


of different ages

Types of Questions
About literary figures
Biography:
Who was both a poet and a painter? (43rd)
Who is not an Irish writer? (43rd)
William Shakespeare was born in ___? (40th)

Periods they belong:


The most famous romantic poet is __? (43rd)
Who is not a Victorian poet? (38th)

Works and Titles:


Which play is the swan song of Shakespeare? (41st)
Who wrote an epic poem? (38th)
Who is the known as “the poet of nature”?

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Types of Questions
About Literary Works
Genres
No Second Troy is a--- ? (43rd)
Which one is a Tragicomedy? (36th)

Characters:
The Character ‘Alfred Doolittle’ is from Shaw’s play titled- (41st)
Shakespeare’s play Hamlet, Hamlet was prince of –(41st)

Plots & Settings:


Where is the setting of the play ‘Hamlet’? (43rd)

Types of Questions
For God’s sake hold your tongue, and let me love.”
QUOtation This line is written by – (38th)

“Alone, alone, all, all alone, Alone on a wide,k wide sea ……”
is from which poem? (38th)

- ‘Climax’ of a plot is what happens - at the height (35th)


Literary terms- A funny poem of five lines called? —– Limerick.(37th)
- Euphemism means—offensive expression. (38th)

- “The golden age of English literature? (38th)


periodization - The Jecobean Period refers to —1603-1625 (38th )

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Different Periods of
02 english literature

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There are 08 major periods & many sub-periods


in the history of English literature.

- The Anglo-Saxon or Old English Period (450–1066)


- The Anglo-Norman or Middle English period (1066–1500)
- The Renaissance Period (1500–1660)
- The Neoclassical Period (1660–1798)
- The Romantic Period (1798–1832)
- The Victorian Period (1832–1901)
- The Modern Period (1901-1939)
- The Postmodern/Contemporary Period (1945–Today)

Periods in detail
Old English Period
450–1066 No Sub-Periods
(Anglo-Saxon Period)

Middle English Period 1066 - 1500

Anglo Norman age of chaucer Barren age


1066-1340 1340-1400 1400 - 1500

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The renaissance (1500 – 1660)


PreparatIon Jacobean Commonwealth
1500 – 1558 1603-1625 1649-1660: The
The Preparation The Jacobean Commonwealth
for Renaissance Period Period

1558 – 1603 1625-1649:


The Elizabethan The Caroline
Period Period

elIzabethan CAROLINE

The 1660-1700:
Restoration Period
Neo-Classical
Period 1700-1745:
Augustan Period
1660 - 1798
1745-1798:
Age of Sensibility

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Victorian
Romantic Period
period
1832 – 1901;
1798 – 1832; No Sub-Period
No Sub-Period

The 1901 -1914:


Edwardian Period
Modern
1901 - 1939
Period 1914 -1939:
Gregorian Period

The
Post-Modern 1939 - Ongoing
Period

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Major literary figures 03


Which authors/poets/playwrights are most important?

✔ William Shakespeare ✔ John Keats


✔ George Bernard Shaw ✔ P B Shelley
✔ Earnest Hemingway

✔ Ben Jonson ✔ John Milton


✔ Jonathan Swift
✔ D.H. Lawrence

✔ Christopher Marlowe ✔ Alexander Pope


✔ William Wordsworth ✔ T.S. Eliot
✔ S T Coleridge ✔ W.B. Yeats
✔ Thomas Gray ✔ Robert Browning
✔ William Blake ✔ Charles Dickens
✔ Alfred Lord Tennyson

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Be careful

British
British american
nationality
irish Anglo - indian

Poet? Novelist?
What type?
Essayist? Playwright?

British Writers
Charles Dickens, D. H. Lawrence, Doris
Novelist
Lessing, Emily Bronte

Playwright Harold Pinter

Robert Herrick, William Wordsworth,


Poet
William Blake etc.

Philosopher/ Bertrand Russell, Charles Lamb, Francis


Essayist Bacon, William Hazlitt

Short story writer Somerset Maugham

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Irish Writers Famous Writers from


Different Countries

Oscar Wilde, Oliver Goldsmith,


Novelist James Joyce, Jonathan Swift,
Laurence Sterne, Robert Louis Stevenson

Poet W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney

Philosopher/ Essayist Edmund Burke (Irish-born British Politician)

Playwright Samuel Beckett, G.B. Shaw

American Writers Famous Writers from


Different Countries

Pearl S. Buck, Earnest Hemingway,


William Faulkner, Toni Morrison,
Novelist
Saul Bellow, Nathaniel Hawthorne,
Mark Twain

Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Walt Whitman, Allen


Poet Ginsberg, Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe, Emily
Dickinson, Langston Hughes, Ezra Pound

Playwright Sir Arthur Miller

Short story writer O’ Henry, Edgar Allan Poe

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Famous Writers from


• Henrik Ibsen > Norwegian Different Countries
• Franz Kafka > German/Austrian
• Bertolt Brecht > German
• Antoine de Saint-Exupery > French
• Baudelaire> French
• Albert Camus > Algerian French
• Marcel Proust > French
• Jean Molière > French
• Jules Verne > French
• Nirod C. Chowdhury Anglo-Indian
• Miguel de Cervantes Spanish
• Pablo Neruda Spanish
• Jhumpa Lahiri Anglo-Indian
• Mulk Raj Anand Anglo-Indian

Old and middle english

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Old English Period


(Anglo-Saxon Period)

Old English Period


Angles, Saxon & Jutes (German tribe)

Famous Authors :
Caedmon
First known poet of English Literature

Works: Hymn of Caedmon

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Old English Period


Beowulf
Cynewulf (poet) • The First English Epic/Heroic Poem,
Work: Juliana (poem) • The Earliest and Best Work of
English Literature. (আদি দিির্শি)
King Alfred the Great
Founder of English Prose
Work: Anglo-Saxon Chronicles

Venerable Bede
Father of English Learning.
First Historian of English Language.
Work: Ecclesiastical History of the English People

Middle English Period


(1066-1500)

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Middle English period

➢ The Anglo Norman Period


➢ The Age of Chaucer
➢ The Dark/Barren Period

Middle English period


Famous Authors
1) Geoffrey Chaucer
• Poet, Diplomat, Bureaucrat.
• The Father of English Language
• The Father of English Literature
• The Father of English Poetry
• The First Friend of English Language

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The Canterbury Tales

▪ Collection of 24 Stories,
▪ 17000 Lines,
▪ 32 Characters.

▪ A group of Pilgrims travels from London


to Canterbury and they tell story.
Setting: Tabard Inn

i) The Nun’s Priest’s Tale (poem)


ii) The Legend of Good Women (poem)
iii) The Romance of the Rose
iv) The Book of Duchess
v) Troilus and Criseyde (epic poem)
VI) The House of Fame

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Famous Writers from


Different Countries

Middle English period

Famous Authors
2) John Wycliff
• Morning Star of Reformation
• First Prose Writer in English
• First Bible Translator in English

John Wycliff
• Morning Star of Reformation
• First Prose Writer in English
• First Bible Translator in English

Sir Thomas Malory


Works : Le Morte d’Arthur ( Collection of Prose)
*** Morte d’Arthur (Poem) – Tennyson

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GKbR‡i Bs‡iwR mvwn‡Z¨i BwZnvm

650 - 1066 The Old English or Anglo- Saxon Period

1066 - 1340 Middle English or Anglo – Norman Period

1345 - 1400 The Age of Chaucer

1500 - 1660 The Renaissance

➢ Elizabethan Age (1558 – 1603)

➢ Jacobean Age (1603 – 1625)

➢ Caroline Age (1625 – 1649)

➢ Commonwealth Age (1649 – 1660)

1660 – 1798 The Neoclassical Period

➢ The Restoration Age (1660 – 1700)

➢ The Augustun Period (1700 – 1745)

➢ The Age of Sensibility (1745 – 1798)

1798 – 1832 The Romantic Period

1832 – 1901 The Victorian Period

➢ The Pre-Raphaelites (1848 – 1860)

➢ The Age of Decadence (1880 – 1901)

1901 - 1939 The Modern Period

1939 - The Postmodern Period


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1. A¨vs‡jv-m¨v·b hy‡Mi mvwnZ¨ (wLª÷vã 650 - 1066)

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bvix, wkï Avi †MvÎcwZ‡K| ZvB g„Zz¨ I welv` GB hy‡Mi mvwn‡Z¨i Ab¨Zg ˆewkó¨| The Seafarer, The Wanderer,
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GQvov †m mg‡q wLª÷ag© cÖPviKivI iPbv K‡i‡Qb mg„× mvwnZ¨| ag©welqK KweZvi †jLK‡`i g‡a¨ Caedmon,
Cynewulf, Bede D‡jøL‡hvM¨| Bede g~j GKRb HwZnvwmK wQ‡jb|

Caedmon

➢ Earliest English poet whose name is known.

➢ Live the life of monk (mbœ¨vmx)

➢ Composed vernacular (†`kx fvlv) verses, mostly in praise of Christ

Major Works:

➢ Caedmon’s Hymns

Cynewulf

Anglo-Saxon poet, famous for his religious compositions (ag©xq iPbv)

Major Works:

➢ The Fates of the Apostles,

➢ Juliana,

➢ Elene,
➢ Christ II

➢ The Dream of the Rod

Bede (672-673 AD- 735 AD):

➢ Referred to as Saint Bede or the Venerable Bede

➢ Monk and historian

➢ Known as The Father of English History

Major Works:

➢ Ecclesiastical History of the English People

➢ On Genesis
2. A¨vs‡jv-bg©vb ev wgWj Bswjk hy‡Mi mvwnZ¨ (wLª÷vã 1066 - 1340)

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RqRqKvi jÿ¨ Kiv hvq| Z‡e GKBm‡½ mvwn‡Z¨ †Rviv‡jv iƒc cvq wLª÷ a‡g©i cÖfveI|

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3. Pmv‡ii hyM (Avby: 1345 -1400)

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Pmv‡iii| divwm Ges BZvwj GB `yB †`‡ki mvwnwZK¨‡`i Øviv e¨vcKfv‡e cÖfvweZ wQ‡jY Pmvi| Zvi iPbvq cïcvwL‡K
gvby‡li f‚wgKv cvjb Ki‡Z †`Lv hvq| GK mivBLvbvq AvkÖq †bqv Zx_©hvÎx‡`i Kvwnbx wb‡q iwPZ The Canterbury
Tales- DcvL¨vb gvjvq cÖ_g †gŠwjK Pmvi‡K cvIqv hvq, we‡`kx †Kv‡bv cÖfve †hLv‡b Abycw¯’Z|

cÂ`k kZvãxi Bsj¨v‡Ûi Ab¨Zg ˆewkó¨ n‡jv Ballad, Morality Plays Ges Miracle Plays| e¨vjvW n‡jv `xN©
eY©bvg~jK KweZv hvvi cÖavb DcRxe¨ wQj wewfbœ hy×weMÖn Ges †cÖgKvwnbx| Ab¨w`‡K evB‡e‡ji wewfbœ Kvwnbx‡K wewfbœ
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Moral Plays| gvbyl wKfv‡e kqZv‡bi Øviv cÖjyä nq, †mUvB wQj Gi DcRxe¨|

1400 mv‡ji ci †_‡K AvbygvwbK 1485 mvj ch©šÍ †Kv‡bv weL¨vZ mvwn‡Z¨i wb`k©b †g‡jwb| ZvB GB hyM‡K HwZnvwmKiv
Barren Age ev k~Y¨ hyM e‡j _v‡Kb|
Geoffrey Chaucer (1343 – 1400)

➢ Author, Philosopher, and Astronomer

➢ Known as the father of English literature

➢ The greatest English poet of the middle Ages

➢ The first poet to be buried (mgvwnZ Kiv) in Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey

➢ Used the Middle English vernacular

Major Works:

➢ The Canterbury Tales (1389, a collection of 24 stories)

➢ The Book of the Duchess

➢ The House of Fame

➢ The Legend of Good Women

➢ Troilus and Criseyde

Sir Thomas Malory Writer, Le Morte d'Arthur (1485)

(1405 – 1471) Compiled of tales of Arthurian The Holy Grail


legends

William Langland Writer of dream vision Piers Plowman

(1332- 1386)

The Pearl Poet Anonymous poet, Sir Gawain and the Green
Knight
known for some famous Patience
dream vision poems Cleanness
Pearl
John Gower Middle English Poet The Tale of Seven Deadly
Sins
(1330-1408)
Confessio Amantis
John Wycliffe Philosopher, Theologian, On the Truth of Holy
Biblical translator Scripture
(1320-1384)
Translated Bible in the
vernacular

William Tyndale Translator of Bible in the


vernacular
(1494 – 1536)
Executed for the reformation
movement

William Caxton Writer, Diplomat, Merchant ➢ The Game and Playe


of the Chesse
(1422 – 1491) The English person to work as
a Printer, first English retailer ➢ Dialogues in French
of books and English

➢ Dictes and Sayings of


the Philosophers

Roger Bacon Philosopher and Writer ➢ Opus Majus

(1214 – 1292) ➢ The Mirror of


Alchemy

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