English literature

English literature

So, the aim of my research is to get general knowledge of the history of the English literature from the end of the VIIth century to the middle of the XXth century as well as to study the issue of influence of the English literature over the Russian one in different historical periods.

get to know about different periods of the English literature get acquainted with the most representative writers of each period to observe specific tendencies in the English literature within each period to observe the influence of the English literature over the Russian one in each historical period In order to reach this aim, I had to accomplish the following objectives:

The first major monuments of Anglo-Saxon literature - Latin monuments - belong to representatives of the clergy. The most remarkable monument of ancient English poetry is the poem of Beowulf.

The author of the famous "Canterbury Tales". He made common cause with his famous contemporary, John Wycliffe (1320-1384).

Lily [1554-1606] Robert Greene [1560-1592] Christopher Marlowe [1563-1593] Ben Johnson [1574-1637] Webster [1575-1624]

love ( "Romeo and Juliet") jealousy (Othello "," Winter's Tale "), ambition ( "Macbeth") vindictiveness and greed ( "The Merchant of Venice") tyranny, ingratitude remorse ( "King Lear") melancholy - thirst for justice ( "Hamlet")

Godwin [1756-1836] Robert Burns [1759-1796]

Mary Shelley, author of "Frankenstein"

Walter Scott [1771-1831] His novels portray the most dramatic moments of the Scottish and English national history.

Dickens [1812-1870] was one of the most famous realistic writers.

Thackeray [1811-1863] is more sarcastic and harsh in his criticism of the aristocratic-bourgeois society.

Disraeli [1805-1881] later known as famous Lord Beaconsfield. He considers the person to be a key to success.

Rudyard Kipling HG Wells

Conan Doyle

Greene, Graham Murdoch, Iris Golding, William N McEwan, Ian Barnes, Julian Burgess, Melvin Naipaul, Vidiadhar Suradzhprasad N Harold Pinter N Doris Lessing N Dystopia: Huxley, Aldous Orwell, George   Detective: Christie, Agatha   Science fiction: Arthur C. Clarke Douglas Adams   Fantasy: John Tolkien