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English Literature

Titles of important writers

Periods of english literature

A list of dramatists, poets, novelists, essayists, woman writers and critics

T. S Eliot

The old english period (450-1066)

Caedmon (ক্যাডমন) (657-680)

Saint Venerable Bede (673-735)

Cynewulf (770-840)

King Alfred the Great (849-899)

The middle english period (1066-1500)

Dante (1265-1321)

Sir John Mandeville (1300-1372)

John Wycliffe (1324-1438)

John Gower (1330-1408)

William Langland (1332-1386)

Geoffrey Chaucer (1340-1400)

John Lydgate (1370-1451)

Sir Thomas Malory (1415-1471)

William Dunbar (born 1459 or 1460 - died 1530)

The Renaissance (1500-1660)

Preparation for Renaissance (1500-1558)

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535)

Sir David Lindsey (1490-1555)

Bishop Bale (1495-1563)

John Heywood (1447-1540)

Nicholas Udall (1504-1556)

Henry Howard, the Earl of Surrey (1517-1547)

Sir Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542)

William Stevenson (1530-1575)

The Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)

Thomas Norton (1532-1584) & Thomas Sackville (1536-1608)

Miguel de Cervantes (1547-1616)

Edmund Spenser(1552-1599)

Sir Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Richard Hooker (1554-1600)

Lohn Lyly (1554-1606)

Robert Greene (1558-1592)

Thomas Kyd (1558-1594)

George Peele (1558-1598)

Thomas Lodge (1558-1625)

George Chapman (1559-1634)

Francis Bacon (1561-1626)

Samuel Daniel (1562-1619)

Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

Thomas Nashe (1567-1601)

The Jacobean Period (1603-1625)

John Donne (1572-1631)

Ben Jonson (1572-1637)

Cyril Tourneur (1575-1626)

John Webster (1578-1626)

The Caroline Period (1625-1649))

Robert Herrick (1591-1674)

George Herbert (1593-1633)

The Commonwealth Period (1659-1660)

Thomas Hobbies (1588-1679)

John Milton (1608-1674)

Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667)

Andrew Marvel (1621-1678)

Henry Vaughan (1621-1695)

The Neoclassical Period (1660-1798)

The Restoration Period (1660-1700)

Samuel Butler (1612-1680)

John Bunyan (1628-1688)

John Dryden (1631-1700)

John Locke (1632-1704)

William Wycherley (1640-1716)

Thomas Otway (1652-1685)

Nathaniel (1653-1692)

George Farquhar (1678-1707)

The Augustan Period : (1700-1745)

Daniel Defoe (1660-1731)

Sir Vanbrugh (1664-1726)

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

William Congreve (1670-1729)

Richard Steele (1672-1729)

Joseph Addison (1672-1719)

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

Samuel Richardson (1689-1761)

James Thomson (1700-1748)

The Age of Sensibility (1745-1785/98)

Benjamin Franklin (1706-1790)

Henry Fielding (1707-1754)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

Tomas Gray (1716-1771)

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774)

Edmund Burke (1729-1797)

Lindley Murray (1745-1826)

William Blake (1757-1827)

The Romantic Period (1798-1832)

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Important Information (Wordsworth)

Well-known works of Wordsworth

Some Quotes of Wordsworth

Summary of Famous Texts Daffodils

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

Charles Lamb (1775-1834)

Jane Austen (1775-1817)

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

John Keats (1795-1821)

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

The Victorian Period (1832-1901)

Alexander Duman (1802-1870)

John Stuart Mill (1806-1861)

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

Lord Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892)

Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849)

Gladstone (1809-1898)

William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863)

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

Charles Dickens (1812-1870)

Charlotte Bronte (1816-1855)

Emily Bronte (1818-1848)

Karl Marx (1818-1883)

George Eliot (1819-1880)

Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-1890)

Mathew Arnold (1822-1868)

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Christina Rossetti (1830-1894)

Samuel Butler (1835-1902)

Mark Twain (1835-1910)

Thomas Hardy (1840-1928) (টমাস হার্ডি)

Gerard Manley Hopkin (1844-1889)

Robert Louis Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)

Oscar wilde (1856-1900)

Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle (1859-1930)

Maxim Gorky (1868-1936)

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864)

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (1821-1881)

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

The Modern Period (1901-1939)

The Edwardian Period (1901-1910)

Jules Verne (1828-1905)

Henrik Ibsen (1828-1906)

Henry James (1843-1916)

Robert Bridges (1844-1930)

A.C. Bradley (1851-1935)

George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

Sigmund Freud (1856-1939)

Joseph Conrad (1857-1924)

David Emile Durkheim (1858-1917)

O’Henry (1862-1910)

Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936)

William Butler Yeats (1865-1939)

H.G Wells (1866-1946)

Arnold Bennet (1867-1931)

John Galsworthy (1867-1933)

Bertrand Arthur William Russell (1872-1970)

The Georgian Period (1910-1936)

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

William Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Sir Winston Churchill (1874-1965)

John Masefield (1878-1967)

Edward Morgan Forster (1879-1970)

John Drinkwater (1882-1937)

James Joyce (1882-1941)

Virginia Woolf (1882-1941)

D.H. Lawrence (1885-1930)

Ezra pound (1885-1972)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

James Bridie (1888-1951)

Eugene Gladstone O’Neill (1888-1953)

T.S Eliot (1888-1965)

Boris Pasternak (1890-1960)

Pearl S. Buck (1892-1973)

Richard Aldington (1892-1962)

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien (1892-1973)

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

J.B. Priestley (1894-1984)

William Cuthbert Faulkner (1897-1962)

Gunnar Myrdal (1898-1987)

Earnest Hemingway(1899-1961)

Noel Coward (1899-1973)

George Orwell (1903-1950)

Evlin Waugh (1903-1966)

Graham Green (1904-1991)

Tean Paul Sartre (1905-1980)

C.P. Snow (1905-1980)

Samuel Barclay Beckett (1906-1989)

R. K. Narayan (1906-2001)

Wystan Hugh Auden (1907-1973)

William Gerald Golding (1911-1993)

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984)

Dylan Marlais Thomas (1914-1953)

Saul Bellow (1915-2005)

Arthur Miller (1915-2005)

Nelson Mandela (1918-2013)

Doris Lessing (1919-2013)

Jimmy Carter (1924----)

Gabriel Garcia Marquez (1927-2014)

Gunter Grass (1927-2015)

Noam Chomsky (1928- )

The Post Modern Period (1939-Present)

John Osborne (1929-1994)

Ted Hughes (1930-1998)

Harold Pinter (1930-2008)

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013)

Toni Morrison (February 18, 1931)

Alice Ann Munro (born 10 July 1931)

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963)

Wole Soyinka (1934- )

Anita Desai (1937- )

Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013)

Salman Rushdi (1947- )

Kaiser Hamidul Haq (1950- )

Orhan Pamuk (1952- )

Amitav Ghosh (1956- )

Arundhuty Roy(1961 - )

Dan Brown (1964 - )

J.K. Rowling (born 31 July 1965)

Jhumpa Lahiri (1967 – )

Monika Ali (1967 – )

Kiran Desai (1971-)

Aravind Adiga 1974 - )

Tahmima Anam (1975 - )

Famous books of different writers

verse

novel

the rainbow

Awards in literature (Noble & Booker Prize)

Nicknames of various writers

Poet Laureate

বিভিন্ন দেশের জাতীয় কবি

Elaboration of the name of some writers

ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত মহাকাব্য (Epics)

ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত শোককাব্য

ইংরেজি সাহিত্যে বিখ্যাত বিভিন্ন চরিত্র

ভিন্ন ভিন্ন লেখকের সমজাতীয় সাহিত্য

সরকার কর্তৃক নিষিদ্ধকৃত গ্রন্থসমূহ

ইংরেজি গল্পের বাংলা অনুবাদ

বাংলা গল্পের ইংরেজি অনুবাদ

Bangladesh writers in english

pedagogy

Indian writers in english

Italian writers in english(Translation)

Russian writers in english

Irish writers in english

Scottish writers in english

American writers in english

Prominent Greek writers and their works

Prominent Roman writers and their works

Literary terms and genres

Epic

Simile

Metaphor

alliteration

Climax

Personification

Hyperbole

Limerick

Soliloquy

Blank Verse

Elegy

Sonnet

Comedy Play

Tragedy play

Melodrama play

Protagonist

Homonyms

Homophones

Monologue

Diction

Free verse

Satire

tragedy

Revenge Tragedy

Machiavellian Character

Digression

Eulogy

Onomatopoeia

Allegory

Euphemism

Paradox

Oxymoron

Pun

Epilogue

Important Quotations from different disciplines

theme of some important literary pieces

Ancient Mariner

Miscellaneous

English Grammar

Parts of Speech

The Noun

Proper Noun

Common Noun

Collective Noun

Material Noun

Abstract Noun

Countable Noun

Uncountable Noun

Compound noun

The Determiner

The Gender

The Number

The Pronoun

Personal Pronouns

Possessive Pronouns

Reflexive Pronouns

Intensive Pronouns

Relative Pronouns

Demonstrative Pronouns

Interrogative Pronouns

Indefinite Pronouns

Object Pronouns

Distributive Pronoun

Reciprocal Pronoun

The Verb

Finite Verb

Principal Verb

Transitive Verb

Intransitive Verb

Auxiliary Verb

Primary/ Principal Auxiliary

Modal/ Secondary Auxiliary

Non-finite Verb

Participles

Present Participle

Past Participle

Perfect Participle

Infinitives

Gerund

Linking Verb

Phrasal Verb

Modals

State/Stative verb

Event/Action/Dynamic verb

Semi-modals

Cognate Verb

Causative Verb

Factitive Verb

Quasi-passive

Reciprocal Verb

Reflexive verb

Impersonal verb

Inchoative verb

Marginal verb

Operator

Regular/Weak Verb

Irregular/Strong Verb

Weak Verb

Strong Verb

Ergative Verb

Lexical Verb

Delexical Verb

Non-continuous Verb

Group verb

The Adjective

Descriptive Adjectives

Quantitative Adjectives

Proper Adjectives

Demonstrative Adjectives

Possessive Adjectives

Interrogative Adjectives

Indefinite Adjectives

Articles

Compound Adjectives

Distributive Adjectives

The Adverb

Simple Adverb

Adverb of Manner

Adverb of Time

Adverb of Place

Adverb of Frequency/Number

Adverb of Degree Quantity

Adverb of Reason (Cause & Effect)

Adverb of Order

Adverb of Assertion & Negation

Interrogative Adverb

Relative Adverb

The Preposition

Simple Preposition

Double Preposition

Compound Preposition

Participle Preposition

Disguised Preposition

Detached Preposition

Prepositions of Time

Prepositions of Place and Direction

Prepositions of Agents or Things

Phrasal Prepositions

Prepositions of Spatial Relationships

Appropriate Preposition

The Conjunction

Coordinating Conjunctions

Correlative Conjunctions

Subordinating Conjunctions

Compound Conjunction

Adverbial Conjunction

The Interjection

Primary Interjection

Secondary Interjection

Mild Interjection

Strong Interjection

Volitive Interjection

Emotive Interjection

Cognitive Interjection

Idioms & Phrases

phrase

Noun Phrase

Adjective Phrase

Verbal Phrase

Adverbial Phrase

Prepositional Phrase

Conjunctional Phrase

Interjectional Phrase

Infinitive phrase

Participle phrase

Absolute Phrase

Appositive Phrase

Gerund Phrase

Foreign Phrases

Idiom

The Clauses

Principal clause

Subordinate clause

Noun clause

Adjective clause/ Relative clause

Defining/Restrictive relative clause

Non-Defining/Non-Restrictive relative clause

Adverbial clause

Adverbial clause of Time

Adverbial clause of Place

Adverbial clause of Reason

Adverbial clause of Effect

Adverbial clause of Purpose

Adverbial clause of condition

Adverbial clause of manner

Adverbial clause of Comparison

Adverbial clause of Concession

Co-ordinate clause

Corrections

Subject-Verb Agreement

The Number-Correction

The Tense (Corrections)

The Verb (Corrections)

Complement of Verb

The Determiner (Corrections)

Conditional Sentence (Corrections)

Punctuation (Corrections)

Parallelism (Corrections)

Sentences & Transformations

Sentence and Kind of Sentences

Assertive Sentence

Interrogative Sentence

Imperative Sentence

Optative Sentence

Exclamatory Sentence

Simple Sentence

Complex Sentence

Compound Sentence

Negative Sentence

Transformation of sentences

Affirmative Sentence

Negative Sentence

Voice

Passive voice

Active Voice

Degree of Comparison

Superlative Degree

Comparative Degree

Positive Degree

Question Tags

Narration

Translation

words

Synonyms

Antonyms

Spellings

Usage of Words as Various Part of Speech

Dame Words as Various Parts of Speech

Transformation of Parts of Speech

Formation of New Words by Adding Prefixes and Suffixes

Prefix

Suffix

Meanings of Word

Substitutions

Expressions

Definition of Words

Tense

Present Tense

Present Indefinite Tense

Present Continuous Tense

Present Perfect Tense

Present Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Tense

Past Indefinite Tense

Past Continuous Tense

Past Perfect Tense

Past Perfect Continuous Tense

Future Tense

Future Indefinite Tense

Future Continuous Tense

Future Perfect Tense

Future Perfect Continuous Tense

Past Form

Right Form of Verbs

Sentence Completion

Narrations: Direct and Indirect

Tag Questions

Inversion

Affirmative and Negative Agreement

Affirmative Agreement

Negative Agreement

Modifiers

Conditional Sentences

First Conditional

Second Conditional

Third Conditional

Zero Conditional

Pin Point Error

Redundancy

Foreign Words and Expressions

Analogy

Translation

Proverbs

Embedded Questions

Pair of Words

Reading Comprehension

Parallelism

Miscellaneous

Consonent

vowel

Uses of Since and For

Synonym and Antonym

Subjunctive

Uses of After and Before

Distributive Pronoun

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