https://ideawaza.com/index.php?action=history&feed=atom&title=English_literary_canon English literary canon - Revision history 2026-10-01T04:20:45Z Revision history for this page on the wiki MediaWiki 1.46.0 https://ideawaza.com/index.php?title=English_literary_canon&diff=69987&oldid=prev wikademia>Eme at 05:35, 14 July 2011 2011-07-14T05:35:41Z <p></p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw-interface=""> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 05:35, 14 July 2011</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l258">Line 258:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 258:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>African American Literature</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>African American Literature</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Major plays===</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:English]]</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">===Major plays===</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Category:Literature]]</ins></div></td></tr> </table> wikademia>Eme https://ideawaza.com/index.php?title=English_literary_canon&diff=69986&oldid=prev wikademia>Eme: Created page with '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…' 2010-12-18T19:11:20Z <p>Created page with &#039;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…&#039;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>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.<br /> <br /> ==Comprehensive canon==<br /> <br /> ===Medieval===<br /> Drama<br /> * The York Cycle<br /> * Everyman<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * &#039;&#039;Beowulf&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Brunanburh&#039;&#039;<br /> * Cædmon: &#039;&#039;Cædmon&#039;s Hymn&#039;&#039;<br /> * Geoffrey Chaucer: &#039;&#039;The Canterbury Tales&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Troilus and Criseyde&#039;&#039;<br /> * William Langland: &#039;&#039;Piers Plowman&#039;&#039;<br /> * Cynewulf: &#039;&#039;The Ascension&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Deor&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Discourse of the Soul to its Body&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Dream of the Rood&#039;&#039;<br /> * Pearl Poet: &#039;&#039;Sir Gawain and the Green Knight&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Pearl&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Battle of Maldon&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Seafarer&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;The Wanderer&#039;&#039;<br /> * &#039;&#039;Widsith&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> <br /> ===Renaissance===<br /> Drama<br /> * Frances Beaumont and John Fletcher: &#039;&#039;Philaster&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Dekker: &#039;&#039;The Shoemaker&#039;s Holiday&#039;&#039;<br /> * Robert Greene: &#039;&#039;Friar Bacon and Friar Bungay&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;James the Fourth&#039;&#039;<br /> * John Lyly: &#039;&#039;Endimion&#039;&#039;<br /> * Ben Jonson: &#039;&#039;The Alchemist&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Bartholomew Fair: A Comedy&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Volpone&#039;&#039;<br /> * Christopher Marlowe: &#039;&#039;The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus&#039;&#039;<br /> * Philip Massinger: &#039;&#039;A New Way to Pay Old Debts&#039;&#039;<br /> * George Peele: &#039;&#039;The Old Wives&#039; Tale&#039;&#039;<br /> * William Shakespeare<br /> * Nicholas Udall: &#039;&#039;Ralph Roister Doister&#039;&#039;<br /> * John Webster: &#039;&#039;The Duchess of Malfi&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * John Donne<br /> * George Herbert: &#039;&#039;The Temple&#039;&#039;<br /> * William Shakespeare<br /> * Philip Sidney: &#039;&#039;Arcadia&#039;&#039;<br /> * Edmund Spenser: &#039;&#039;The Fairie Queen&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> * Francis Bacon: &#039;&#039;New Atlantis&#039;&#039;<br /> * Robert Burton: &#039;&#039;The Anatomy of Melancholy&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Deloney: &#039;&#039;Jack of Newbury&#039;&#039;<br /> * George Gascoigne: &#039;&#039;The Adventures of Master F. J.<br /> * John Lyly: &#039;&#039;Euphues: The Anatomy of Wit<br /> * Thomas Malory: &#039;&#039;Morte D&#039;Arthur&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas More: &#039;&#039;Utopia&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Nashe: &#039;&#039;The Unfortunate Traveller&#039;&#039;<br /> * Henry Neville: &#039;&#039;The Isle of Pines&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> ===English Civil War and Restoration===<br /> Drama<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * Thomas Carew: &#039;&#039;The Rapture&#039;&#039;<br /> * John Cleveland: &#039;&#039;The Rebel Scot&#039;&#039;<br /> * Abraham Cowley: &#039;&#039;The Mistress&#039;&#039;<br /> * Richard Crashaw: &#039;&#039;&#039;Delights ofthe Muses&#039;&#039; <br /> * John Denham: &#039;&#039;Cooper&#039;s Hill&#039;&#039;<br /> * John Dryden<br /> * Robert Herrick: &#039;&#039;Hesperides&#039;&#039;<br /> * Andrew Marvell<br /> * John Milton<br /> * Francis Quarles: &#039;&#039;Emblems&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Traherne: &#039;&#039;The Wonder&#039;&#039;<br /> * Henry Vaughan: &#039;&#039;Silex Scintillans&#039;&#039;<br /> * Edmund Waller: &#039;&#039;The Bud, Go, lovely Rose&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;On a Girdle&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> * Richard Baxter: &#039;&#039;Saints&#039; Everlasting Rest&#039;&#039;<br /> * Aphra Behn: &#039;&#039;Oroonoko&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Browne<br /> * John Bunyan: &#039;&#039;The Pilgrim&#039;s Progress&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Fuller: &#039;&#039;The Worthies of England&#039;&#039;<br /> * Jeremy Taylor: &#039;&#039;Holy Living&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Holy Dying&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Urquhart<br /> * Izaak Walton: &#039;&#039;The Compleat Angler&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> ===Georgian===<br /> Drama<br /> * Henry Fielding: &#039;&#039;The Modern Husband&#039;&#039;<br /> * David Garrick and George Colman: &#039;&#039;The Clandestine Marriage&#039;;<br /> * John Gay: &#039;&#039;The Beggar&#039;s Opera&#039;&#039;<br /> * Oliver Goldsmith: &#039;&#039;She Stoops to Conquer&#039;&#039;<br /> * John O&#039;Keeffe: &#039;&#039;Wild Oats&#039;&#039;<br /> * Percy Shelley: &#039;&#039;The Cenci&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Prometheus Unbound&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * William Blake: &#039;&#039;Songs of Innocence&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Songs of Experience&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Marriage of Heaven and Hell&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Jerusalem&#039;&#039;<br /> * Robert Burns<br /> * George Gordon Byron: &#039;&#039;Don Juan&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Child Harold&#039;s Pilgrimage&#039;&#039;<br /> * Samuel Coleridge: &#039;&#039;The Rime of the Ancient Mariner&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Kubla Khan&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Cristabel&#039;&#039;<br /> * William Collins<br /> * William Cowper<br /> * Thomas Gray: &#039;&#039;Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard&#039;&#039;<br /> * Leigh Hunt<br /> * John Keats: &#039;&#039;Sleep and Poetry&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Lamia&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Hyperion&#039;&#039;, Odes, &#039;&#039;Fall of Hyperion&#039;&#039;<br /> * Samuel Johnson: &#039;&#039;The Vanity of Human Wishes&#039;&#039;<br /> * Charles Lamb<br /> * Alexander Pope: &#039;&#039;Dunciad&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Rape of the Lock&#039;&#039;<br /> * Walter Scott<br /> * Percy Shelley: &#039;&#039;Mont Blanc&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Cloud&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Ozymandius&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Adonais&#039;&#039;<br /> * Christopher Smart: &#039;&#039;A Song to David&#039;&#039;<br /> * James Thomson<br /> * William Wordsworth: &#039;&#039;The Prelude&#039;&#039;, &quot;Lucy&quot; poems, &quot;Matthew&quot; poems, &#039;&#039;Tintern Abbey&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> * Jane Austen<br /> * Frances Burney: &#039;&#039;Evelina&#039;&#039;<br /> * Jane Collier: <br /> * James Fenimore Cooper<br /> * Daniel Defoe: &#039;&#039;Robinson Crusoe&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Moll Flanders&#039;&#039;<br /> * De Quincey: &#039;&#039;Confessions of an English Opium-Eater&#039;&#039;<br /> * Maria Edgeworth: &#039;&#039;Belinda&#039;&#039;<br /> * Henry Fielding: &#039;&#039;Joseph Andrews&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Tom Jones&#039;&#039;<br /> * Charlotte Lennox: &#039;&#039;The Female Quixote&#039;&#039;<br /> * Matthew Lewis: &#039;&#039;The Monk&#039;&#039;<br /> * Henry Mackenzie: &#039;&#039;The Man of Feeling&#039;&#039;<br /> * Ann Radcliffe<br /> * Samuel Richardson: &#039;&#039;Pamela&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Clarissa&#039;&#039;<br /> * Walter Scott: &#039;&#039;Waverly&#039;&#039;<br /> * Mary Shelley: &#039;&#039;Frankenstein&#039;&#039;<br /> * Tobias Smollet: &#039;&#039;Humphrey Clinker&#039;&#039;<br /> * Lawrence Sterne: &#039;&#039;Tristam Shandy&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Sentimental Journey&#039;&#039;<br /> * Jonathan Swift: &#039;&#039;Gulliver&#039;s Travels&#039;&#039;<br /> * Horace Walpole: &#039;&#039;The Castle of Otranto&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Sarah Scott, Sarah Fielding<br /> <br /> ===Victorian===<br /> Drama<br /> * Gilbert and Sullivan<br /> * George Bernard Shaw (continuing into 20th Century)<br /> * Oscar Wilde: &#039;&#039;The Importance of Being Earnest&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * Matthew Arnold<br /> * Elizabeth Barrett Browning<br /> * Robert Browning<br /> * Thomas Carlyle<br /> * Lewis Carroll: &#039;&#039;Jabberwocky&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Hunting of the Snark&#039;&#039;<br /> * Emily Dickinson<br /> * Gerard Manley Hopkins<br /> * A. E. Housman: &#039;&#039;Shropshire Lad&#039;&#039;<br /> * Henry Wadsworth Longfellow<br /> * Edgar Allan Poe<br /> * Christina Rosetti: &#039;&#039;Goblin Market&#039;&#039;<br /> * Algernon Charles Swinburne<br /> * Alfred, Lord Tennyson: &#039;&#039;Ulysses&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Idylls of the King&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;In Memoriam A. H. H.&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Lady of Shalott&#039;&#039;<br /> * Walt Whitman <br /> * Joanne Slack &quot; A man and his dog&quot;<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> * Mary Elizabeth Braddon: &#039;&#039;Lady Audley&#039;s Secret&#039;&#039;<br /> * Charlotte Brontë<br /> * Emily Brontë<br /> * Lewis Carroll<br /> * Wilkie Collins<br /> * Charles Dickens<br /> * Benjamin Disraeli: &#039;&#039;Sybil&#039;&#039;<br /> * George Eliot: &#039;&#039;Middlemarch&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;The Mill on the Floss&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Adam Bede&#039;&#039;<br /> * Elizabeth Gaskell: &#039;&#039;Mary Barton&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;North and South&#039;&#039;<br /> * George Gissing: &#039;&#039;The Odd Women&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;New Grub Street&#039;&#039;<br /> * Thomas Hardy<br /> * Nathaniel Hawthorne: &#039;&#039;The Scarlet Letter&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Young Goodman Brown&#039;&#039;<br /> * O. Henry<br /> * Washington Irving<br /> * Henry James<br /> * W. Somerset Maugham<br /> * Herman Melville: &#039;&#039;Moby Dick&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Israel Potter&#039;&#039;<br /> * Margaret Oliphant: &#039;&#039;Miss Marjoribanks&#039;&#039;<br /> * Robert Louis Stevenson<br /> * Bram Stoker: &#039;&#039;Dracula&#039;&#039;<br /> * William Makepeace Thackery: &#039;&#039;Vanity Fair&#039;&#039;<br /> * Mark Twain<br /> * H. G. Wells<br /> * Edith Wharton<br /> * Oscar Wilde: &#039;&#039;The Picture of Dorian Gray&#039;&#039;&#039;<br /> * Ellen Wood: &#039;&#039;East Lynne&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> ===20th century===<br /> Drama<br /> * Samuel Becket<br /> * J. M. Synge<br /> <br /> Poetry<br /> * W. H. Auden<br /> * Ruper Brooke<br /> * T. S. Eliot<br /> * Robert Frost<br /> * Dylan Thomas<br /> * William Butler Yeats<br /> <br /> Prose<br /> * Saul Bellow<br /> * Agatha Christie<br /> * Joseph Conrad<br /> * William Faulkner: &#039;&#039;The Sound and the Fury&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;As I Lay Dying&#039;&#039;<br /> * Felipe Fernadez-Armesto<br /> * F. Scott Fitzgerald<br /> * E. M. Forster: &#039;&#039;A Passage to India&#039;&#039;<br /> * Seamus Heaney<br /> * Ernest Hemingway<br /> * Aldous Huxley<br /> * James Joyce - &#039;&#039;Dubliners&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Ulysses&#039;&#039;<br /> * Rudyard Kipling<br /> * D. H. Lawrence<br /> * C. S. Lewis<br /> * George Orwell - &#039;&#039;Animal Farm&#039;&#039;, &#039;&#039;Nineteen Eighty-Four&#039;&#039;<br /> * John Steinbeck<br /> * J. R. R. Tolkien <br /> * Eudora Welty<br /> * Virginia Woolfe<br /> * Richard Wright<br /> <br /> ==Other canons==<br /> ===Great Books===<br /> <br /> ===Developing novels===<br /> Novel development<br /> <br /> Adventure novels<br /> <br /> Historic novels<br /> * Walter Scott: &#039;&#039;Waverly&#039;&#039; (1814)<br /> * Walter Scott: &#039;&#039;Rob Roy&#039;&#039; (1817)<br /> * Walter Scott: &#039;&#039;Ivanhoe&#039;&#039; (1819)<br /> * R. D. Blackmore: &#039;&#039;Lorna Doone&#039;&#039; (1869)<br /> <br /> Gothic novels<br /> * Horace Walpole: &#039;&#039;The Castle of Otranto&#039;&#039; (1764)<br /> * Ann Radcliffe: &#039;&#039;The Mysteries of Udolpho&#039;&#039; (1794)<br /> * Matthew Lewis: &#039;&#039;The Monk&#039;&#039; (1796)<br /> * Ann Radcliffe: &#039;&#039;The Italian&#039;&#039; (1796)<br /> * Jane Austen: &#039;&#039;Northanger Abbey&#039;&#039;<br /> <br /> Sensation novels<br /> * Wilkie Collins: &#039;&#039;The Woman in White&#039;&#039; (1860)<br /> * Ellen Wood: &#039;&#039;East Lynne&#039;&#039; (1861)<br /> * Mary Elizabeth Braddon: &#039;&#039;Lady Audley&#039;s Secret&#039;&#039; (1862)<br /> * Wilkie Collins: &#039;&#039;Armadale&#039;&#039; (1866)<br /> * Wilkie Collins: &#039;&#039;The Moonstone&#039;&#039; (1868)<br /> <br /> Sentimental novels<br /> * Henry Mackenzie: &#039;&#039;The Man of Feeling&#039;&#039; (1771)<br /> <br /> Women&#039;s Literature<br /> <br /> African American Literature<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> ===Major plays===</div> wikademia>Eme