🔹 Charles Lamb wrote Tales from Shakespeare with his sister Mary Lamb.
🔹 Adonais is a pastoral elegy written by P. B. Shelley (not Keats) on the death of John Keats.
🔹 John Keats said, "My name is writ in water."
🔹 Shelley's death was caused by drowning in a storm near Italy.
🔹 William Collins’ poem "In yonder grave a Druid lies" is an elegy for James Thomson.
🔹 "A thing of beauty is a joy forever" — first line of Keats’s Endymion.
🔹 Thomas Gray wrote Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard.
🔹 Samuel Richardson’s Pamela is considered the first epistolary novel.
🔹 "Beauty is truth, truth beauty" — from Keats’s Ode on a Grecian Urn.
🔹 Kubla Khan was composed by Coleridge after an opium dream.
🔹 The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope is a mock-epic poem.
🔹 Dr. Faustus by Marlowe is based on the Faust legend.
🔹 T.S. Eliot called Hamlet an "artistic failure."
🔹 Virginia Woolf developed stream of consciousness in Mrs Dalloway.
🔹 Jonathan Swift used savage satire in A Modest Proposal.
🔹 Wordsworth called poetry “the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.”
🔹 Spenser’s The Faerie Queene is written in Spenserian stanza.
🔹 "Man is the measure of all things" — a Humanist idea revived in the Renaissance.
🔹 Poetics by Aristotle discusses tragedy and catharsis.
🔹 Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett is part of Theatre of the Absurd.
🔹 Middlemarch by George Eliot is a Victorian realist novel.
🔹 The Waste Land (1922) begins with the line “April is the cruellest month”.
🔹 Robert Browning popularized the dramatic monologue form.
🔹 Jane Austen’s novels reflect the world of genteel society and manners.
🔹 Areopagitica by Milton defends freedom of the press.
🔹 The Battle of Books was written by Jonathan Swift.
🔹 The Duchess of Malfi was written by John Webster, a Jacobean dramatist.
🔹 Harold Pinter is associated with Pinteresque pauses in Modern Drama.
🔹 The Second Coming by W. B. Yeats reflects modernist chaos and change.
🔹 She walks in beauty is a famous poem by Lord Byron.
🔹 "Poetry is the criticism of life" — said by Matthew Arnold.
🔹 Dryden was known as the father of English criticism.
🔹 To His Coy Mistress is a carpe diem poem by Andrew Marvell.
🔹 Philip Sidney wrote Astrophel and Stella, the first English sonnet sequence.
🔹 The Rivals by Richard Sheridan introduced the character Mrs. Malaprop, known for malapropisms.
🔹 Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is a classic picaresque novel.
🔹 William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and of Experience presents contrary states of the human soul.
🔹 The Tyger and The Lamb are companion poems by William Blake.
🔹 The Prelude by Wordsworth is a spiritual autobiography in blank verse.
🔹 Christabel and The Rime of the Ancient Mariner are narrative poems by Coleridge.
🔹 Jane Eyre was written by Charlotte Brontë; Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë.
🔹 Robert Frost is known for poems set in New England and use of colloquial language.
🔹 Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller is a modern tragedy.
🔹 The Importance of Being Earnest is a satire by Oscar Wilde.
🔹 Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence is an example of psychological realism.
🔹 Ezra Pound said, "Make it new", a motto of Modernist poetry.
🔹 Howards End and A Passage to India were written by E. M. Forster.
🔹 Ulysses by James Joyce parallels Homer’s Odyssey in modern Dublin.
🔹 Dylan Thomas is known for Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, a villanelle.
🔹 Seamus Heaney, an Irish poet, wrote Digging and won the Nobel Prize in 1995.
🔹 The Color Purple by Alice Walker is a powerful novel on race and gender.
🔹 Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart critiques colonialism in Africa.
🔹 The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy won the Booker Prize in 1997.
🔹 The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing is associated with feminist literature.
🔹 Beloved by Toni Morrison deals with slavery and trauma.
🔹 Look Back in Anger by John Osborne launched the Angry Young Men movement.
🔹 On the Origin of Species by Charles Darwin influenced Victorian literature with ideas of evolution.
🔹 The Flea is a metaphysical love poem by John Donne.
🔹 Beowulf is the earliest epic in Old English literature.
🔹 The Norman Conquest (1066) introduced French influence into English vocabulary and culture.
🔹 George Herbert's poetry is known for religious themes and shape poems like The Altar.
🔹 John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, a famous Christian allegory.
🔹 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf is a key feminist text.
🔹 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus was written by Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare.
🔹 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith is a comedy of manners.
🔹 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was written by John Dryden.
🔹 The School for Scandal is a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan satirizing hypocrisy in society.
🔹 Tintern Abbey is a reflective poem by William Wordsworth.
🔹 Hyperion and Lamia are unfinished epic poems by John Keats.
🔹 Thomas Carlyle wrote Sartor Resartus, mixing fiction and philosophy.
🔹 The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning critiques child labor.
🔹 The Charge of the Light Brigade is a patriotic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
🔹 My Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.
🔹 The Blessed Damozel is a mystical, medieval-style poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
🔹 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti deals with sisterhood and temptation.
🔹 The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by Oscar Wilde.
🔹 Gerard Manley Hopkins used sprung rhythm and coined inscape and instress.
🔹 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a famous psychological ghost story.
🔹 Stephen Dedalus is the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
🔹 To the Lighthouse is a stream of consciousness novel by Virginia Woolf.
🔹 The Cantos is a long experimental poem by Ezra Pound.
🔹 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an early modernist poem by T. S. Eliot.
🔹 W. H. Auden wrote Musee des Beaux Arts, inspired by Brueghel’s painting.
🔹 Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores human savagery in children.
🔹 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess uses invented slang called Nadsat.
🔹 The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles is a postmodern historical novel.
🔹 Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a parody of Hamlet.
🔹 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber retells fairy tales from a feminist perspective.
🔹 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers.
🔹 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008.
🔹 George Herbert's poetry is known for religious themes and shape poems like The Altar.
🔹 John Bunyan wrote The Pilgrim’s Progress, a famous Christian allegory.
🔹 A Room of One’s Own by Virginia Woolf is a key feminist text.
🔹 The Tragical History of Doctor Faustus was written by Christopher Marlowe, not Shakespeare.
🔹 She Stoops to Conquer by Oliver Goldsmith is a comedy of manners.
🔹 An Essay of Dramatic Poesy was written by John Dryden.
🔹 The School for Scandal is a play by Richard Brinsley Sheridan satirizing hypocrisy in society.
🔹 Tintern Abbey is a reflective poem by William Wordsworth.
🔹 Hyperion and Lamia are unfinished epic poems by John Keats.
🔹 Thomas Carlyle wrote Sartor Resartus, mixing fiction and philosophy.
🔹 The Cry of the Children by Elizabeth Barrett Browning critiques child labor.
🔹 The Charge of the Light Brigade is a patriotic poem by Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
🔹 My Last Duchess is a dramatic monologue by Robert Browning.
🔹 The Blessed Damozel is a mystical, medieval-style poem by Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
🔹 Goblin Market by Christina Rossetti deals with sisterhood and temptation.
🔹 The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only novel by Oscar Wilde.
🔹 Gerard Manley Hopkins used sprung rhythm and coined inscape and instress.
🔹 The Turn of the Screw by Henry James is a famous psychological ghost story.
🔹 Stephen Dedalus is the protagonist in James Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.
🔹 To the Lighthouse is a stream of consciousness novel by Virginia Woolf.
🔹 The Cantos is a long experimental poem by Ezra Pound.
🔹 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an early modernist poem by T. S. Eliot.
🔹 W. H. Auden wrote Musee des Beaux Arts, inspired by Brueghel’s painting.
🔹 Lord of the Flies by William Golding explores human savagery in children.
🔹 A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess uses invented slang called Nadsat.
🔹 The French Lieutenant’s Woman by John Fowles is a postmodern historical novel.
🔹 Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead is a parody of Hamlet.
🔹 Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber retells fairy tales from a feminist perspective.
🔹 Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie won the Booker of Bookers.
🔹 The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga won the Booker Prize in 2008.
🔹 Animal Farm by George Orwell is a satire on the Russian Revolution and Stalinist regime.
🔹 1984 by George Orwell presents a dystopian future under totalitarian surveillance.
🔹 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray reflects pre-Romantic melancholy and rural life.
🔹 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway captures the "Lost Generation" after World War I.
🔹 A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway is set during World War I.
🔹 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot reflects the spiritual desolation after World War I.
🔹 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer is set during a pilgrimage to Canterbury and reveals 14th-century English society.
🔹 Ode to the West Wind by Shelley is both a nature poem and a political call for change.
🔹 Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare begins with “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
🔹 Shakespeare’s sonnets are 154 in number and follow the ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme.
🔹 The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd influenced Shakespearean revenge tragedy.
🔹 Volpone by Ben Jonson is a satire on greed and corruption in Venetian society.
🔹 The Alchemist by Ben Jonson satirizes con artists and gullibility.
🔹 The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is an early science fiction utopia.
🔹 Utopia by Thomas More coined the word “utopia” and describes an ideal society.
🔹 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (though Italian) influenced English political thought in Renaissance literature.
🔹 The Spectator essays by Addison and Steele reflect 18th-century London society.
🔹 The Dunciad by Alexander Pope is a mock-epic attacking mediocrity in literature.
🔹 The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is set in 18th-century England and is a classic picaresque novel.
🔹 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith portrays domestic life and moral lessons.
🔹 Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of English Romanticism.
🔹 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was written during the “year without a summer” (1816) in Geneva.
🔹 In Memoriam A.H.H. by Tennyson is an elegy on the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
🔹 Hard Times by Charles Dickens critiques utilitarianism and industrial society.
🔹 A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens is set during the French Revolution.
🔹 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot explores gender roles and family conflict.
🔹 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is considered the first sensation novel.
🔹 The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin influenced Victorian literature’s focus on science and progress.
🔹 The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats refers to chaos after World War I and foretells modern crisis.
🔹 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock reflects modern urban anxiety.
🔹 Church Going by Philip Larkin deals with loss of religious faith in modern England.
🔹 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore reflects the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
🔹 1984 by George Orwell presents a dystopian future under totalitarian surveillance.
🔹 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray reflects pre-Romantic melancholy and rural life.
🔹 The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway captures the "Lost Generation" after World War I.
🔹 A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway is set during World War I.
🔹 The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot reflects the spiritual desolation after World War I.
🔹 The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer is set during a pilgrimage to Canterbury and reveals 14th-century English society.
🔹 Ode to the West Wind by Shelley is both a nature poem and a political call for change.
🔹 Sonnet 18 by Shakespeare begins with “Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
🔹 Shakespeare’s sonnets are 154 in number and follow the ababcdcdefefgg rhyme scheme.
🔹 The Spanish Tragedy by Thomas Kyd influenced Shakespearean revenge tragedy.
🔹 Volpone by Ben Jonson is a satire on greed and corruption in Venetian society.
🔹 The Alchemist by Ben Jonson satirizes con artists and gullibility.
🔹 The Blazing World by Margaret Cavendish is an early science fiction utopia.
🔹 Utopia by Thomas More coined the word “utopia” and describes an ideal society.
🔹 The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli (though Italian) influenced English political thought in Renaissance literature.
🔹 The Spectator essays by Addison and Steele reflect 18th-century London society.
🔹 The Dunciad by Alexander Pope is a mock-epic attacking mediocrity in literature.
🔹 The History of Tom Jones by Henry Fielding is set in 18th-century England and is a classic picaresque novel.
🔹 The Vicar of Wakefield by Oliver Goldsmith portrays domestic life and moral lessons.
🔹 Lyrical Ballads (1798) by Wordsworth and Coleridge marked the beginning of English Romanticism.
🔹 Frankenstein by Mary Shelley was written during the “year without a summer” (1816) in Geneva.
🔹 In Memoriam A.H.H. by Tennyson is an elegy on the death of his friend Arthur Hallam.
🔹 Hard Times by Charles Dickens critiques utilitarianism and industrial society.
🔹 A Tale of Two Cities by Dickens is set during the French Revolution.
🔹 The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot explores gender roles and family conflict.
🔹 The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins is considered the first sensation novel.
🔹 The Origin of Species (1859) by Charles Darwin influenced Victorian literature’s focus on science and progress.
🔹 The Second Coming by W.B. Yeats refers to chaos after World War I and foretells modern crisis.
🔹 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock reflects modern urban anxiety.
🔹 Church Going by Philip Larkin deals with loss of religious faith in modern England.
🔹 The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore reflects the Swadeshi movement in colonial India.
🔹 The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope satirizes upper-class vanity using the mock-epic style.
🔹 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake contrasts childlike purity with societal corruption.
🔹 Lycidas by John Milton is a pastoral elegy written on the death of Edward King.
🔹 Paradise Lost by Milton deals with the Fall of Man and is written in blank verse.
🔹 John Milton supported Puritanism and the Commonwealth under Cromwell.
🔹 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge features supernatural elements and Christian redemption.
🔹 Kubla Khan by Coleridge describes Xanadu, an imaginary palace of the Mongol emperor.
🔹 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell presents industrial conflict in Victorian England.
🔹 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores Puritanism and sin in 17th-century America.
🔹 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman celebrates individualism and democracy.
🔹 Moby Dick by Herman Melville is set on a whaling ship and explores obsession and fate.
🔹 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a major role in fueling abolitionism in the U.S.
🔹 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is set during the American Civil War.
🔹 The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway is set in Cuba and won him the Pulitzer Prize.
🔹 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton explores racial injustice in South Africa.
🔹 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is set in the Congo and critiques European imperialism.
🔹 The Plague by Albert Camus is a philosophical novel about existentialism and absurdity.
🔹 The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Camus features Meursault, a character embodying absurdism.
🔹 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad explores colonial guilt and heroism.
🔹 Native Son by Richard Wright addresses racism and poverty in America.
🔹 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston explores Black female identity in the American South.
🔹 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical novel exploring mental illness.
🔹 Daddy and Lady Lazarus are confessional poems by Sylvia Plath.
🔹 Howl by Allen Ginsberg became a landmark poem of the Beat Generation.
🔹 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is set in New York City and reflects teenage alienation.
🔹 On the Road by Jack Kerouac became a counterculture classic.
🔹 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald critiques the American Dream in the Jazz Age.
🔹 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in the Great Depression era and deals with racial injustice.
🔹 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner uses stream of consciousness to explore Southern decay.
🔹 Songs of Innocence and of Experience by William Blake contrasts childlike purity with societal corruption.
🔹 Lycidas by John Milton is a pastoral elegy written on the death of Edward King.
🔹 Paradise Lost by Milton deals with the Fall of Man and is written in blank verse.
🔹 John Milton supported Puritanism and the Commonwealth under Cromwell.
🔹 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge features supernatural elements and Christian redemption.
🔹 Kubla Khan by Coleridge describes Xanadu, an imaginary palace of the Mongol emperor.
🔹 North and South by Elizabeth Gaskell presents industrial conflict in Victorian England.
🔹 The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne explores Puritanism and sin in 17th-century America.
🔹 Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman celebrates individualism and democracy.
🔹 Moby Dick by Herman Melville is set on a whaling ship and explores obsession and fate.
🔹 Uncle Tom’s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe had a major role in fueling abolitionism in the U.S.
🔹 Little Women by Louisa May Alcott is set during the American Civil War.
🔹 The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway is set in Cuba and won him the Pulitzer Prize.
🔹 Cry, the Beloved Country by Alan Paton explores racial injustice in South Africa.
🔹 Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad is set in the Congo and critiques European imperialism.
🔹 The Plague by Albert Camus is a philosophical novel about existentialism and absurdity.
🔹 The Outsider (L’Étranger) by Camus features Meursault, a character embodying absurdism.
🔹 Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad explores colonial guilt and heroism.
🔹 Native Son by Richard Wright addresses racism and poverty in America.
🔹 Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston explores Black female identity in the American South.
🔹 The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath is a semi-autobiographical novel exploring mental illness.
🔹 Daddy and Lady Lazarus are confessional poems by Sylvia Plath.
🔹 Howl by Allen Ginsberg became a landmark poem of the Beat Generation.
🔹 The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger is set in New York City and reflects teenage alienation.
🔹 On the Road by Jack Kerouac became a counterculture classic.
🔹 The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald critiques the American Dream in the Jazz Age.
🔹 To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee is set in the Great Depression era and deals with racial injustice.
🔹 The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner uses stream of consciousness to explore Southern decay.
🔹 Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe critiques colonialism and reflects Igbo culture.
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