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- Jane Eyre, novel by Charlotte Brontë, first published in 1847 as Jane Eyre: An Autobiography, with Currer Bell (Brontë’s pseudonym) listed as the editor.
Character List:
- Jane Eyre
- Edward Rochester
- St. John Rivers
- Helen Burns
- Mrs. Reed
Source: Britannica and SparkNotes
John Henry Cardinal Newman was a leader of 'Oxford Movement'.
His famous books are:
- The Idea of University,
- Loss and Gain.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Encyclopedia of Britannica.
Some famous quotations by William Blake:
- “What is now proved was once only imagined.”
- “It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.”
- “If a thing loves, it is infinite.”
- “Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.”
- “The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Source: goodreads
Robert Browning: Major English poet of the Victorian age, noted for his mastery of dramatic monologue and psychological portraiture.
His famous quotes:
- When the fight begins within himself, a man's worth something.
- Ignorance is not innocence but sin.
- So absolutely good is truth, truth never hurts the teller.
Among Browning’s important publications are:
- The Ring and the Book (1868–69),
- Pauline (1833),
- Bells and Pomegranates (1841–46),
- My Last Duchess,
- Men and Women (1855),
- Dramatis Personae (1864),
- Asolando (1889).
Source: britannica and goodreads
- William Hazlitt was a famous critic of the Romantic Period and an English writer best known for his humanistic essays.
His famous books are:
- The Spirit of Age,
- The Dramatic Literature of the Age of Elizabeth,
- On the Pleasure of Hating.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.
Lord Byron:
- British Romantic poet and satirist whose poetry and personality captured the imagination of Europe.
- Renowned as the “gloomy egoist” of his autobiographical poem Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage (1812–18) in the 19th century.
• His other famous Poems:
- The Vision of judgement,
- Hours of Idleness,
- Don Juan,
- Heaven and Earth.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.
- William Wordsworth is the pioneer of the Romantic Age.
- He is called Poet of Nature, Poet of Childhood, Lake poet.
His famous poems:
- The Daffodils,
- Poems in Two Volumes,
- Lyrical Ballad,
- The Excursion,
- The Prelude,
- Lucy Poem,
- Tintern Abbey,
- The Solitary Reaper,
- Ode to Duty,
- My Heart Leaps Up etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.
George Eliot: Her real name is Mary Ann Evans.
Famous Works:
- The Mill on the Floss,
- Scenes of Clerical Life,
- Adam Bede,
- Silas Marner,
- Romola,
- Middlemarch.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr. M Mofizar Rahman
Matthew Aronld (1822-88):
He was a poet and a critic, known for his strong moral voice.
Works:
- Essays in Criticism (1888)
- Culture and Anarchy (1867) and some poems.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr M Mofizar Rahman
- Emily Brontë, in full Emily Jane Brontë is a British writer.
- She is famous for her only novel 'Wuthering Heights'
- Important characters of this novel:
- Heathcliff,
- Lockwood,
- Catherine Earnshaw etc.
- The central character of 'Wuthering Heights' is Heathcliff.
Source: Britannica and British Library.
- Far from the Madding Crowd, novel by Thomas Hardy, published serially and anonymously in 1874 in The Cornhill Magazine and published in book form under Hardy's name the same year. It was his first popular success.
Characters:
- Gabriel Oak
- Bathsheba Everdene
- Sergeant Francis (Frank) Troy
- William Boldwood
- Fanny Robin
Source: Britannica and SparkNotes
Henry James (1843-1916): He is an American English writer.
His novels:
- Daisy Miller,
- The Portrait of a Lady,
- The Bostonians,
- The Ambassadors,
- The Wings of the Dove,
- The American,
- The Tragic Muse,
- The Spoils of Poyton.
Source: An ABC of English Literature and Live MCQ lecture; Britannica.
• George Robert Gissing: English novelist, noted for the unflinching realism of his novels about the lower middle class.
Notable works of George Robert Gissing:
- Born in Exile,
- The Nether World,
- Denzil Quarrier,
- The Odd Women,
- The Paying Guest,
- The Whirlpool,
- Charles Dickens: A Critical Study.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman.
William Makepeace Thackeray: English novelist whose reputation rests chiefly on Vanity Fair (1847–48), a novel of the Napoleonic period in England.
Other works:
- The History of Henry Esmond, Esq
- The Virginians
- Pendennis
- The Newcomes
- The Rose and the Ring
- Barry Lyndon
Source: britannica
Moby Dick, novel by Herman Melville, published in London in October 1851 as The Whale and a month later in New York City as Moby-Dick; or, The Whale. It is dedicated to Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Moby Dick is generally regarded as Melville’s magnum opus and one of the greatest American novels.
Herman Melville was an American Novelist, short-story writer and poet.
His famous novels are:
- Moby Dick,
- White Jacket,
- Bartleby, the Scrivener.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr. M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica
- Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert that was first published in 1856.
Character List:
- Emma Bovary
- Charles Bovary
- Monsieur Homais
Source: Britannica and SparkNotes
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde is a novella by Robert Louis Stevenson that was first published in 1886.
Character List:
- Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde
- Mr. Gabriel John Utterson
- Dr. Hastie Lanyon
Source: Britannica and SparkNotes
George Eliot: Her real name is Mary Ann Evans.
Some important quotations are:
- “No man can be wise on an empty stomach.”
- “It is never too late to be what you might have been.”
- “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.”
- “What loneliness is more lonely than distrust?”
Source: goodreads
- John Keats is called the Poet of Beauty.
- He is a famous Romantic Poet.
His famous works are:
- Endymion,
- Hyperion,
- Ode to a Nightingale,
- Lamia,
- Ode to Autumn,
- Ode to Psyche,
- A part of Lovers,
- Bright Star,
- A daughter of Sunshine,
- The eve of St. Agnes etc.
Source: Britannica.com
Lord Alfred Tennyson: English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry.
- His famous elegy is ''In Memoriam''.
His other famous poems:
- Oenone,
- Ulysses,
- Lotos Eaters,
- Locksley Hall,
- Tears, Idle Tears,
- Tithonus,
- The Lady of Shalott,
- Vision of Sin,
- Morte D'Arthur etc.
Famous play:
- The Falcon,
- Queen Mary,
- Harold.
On the other hand,
- A System of Logic is an essay of John Stuart Mill.
- Sense and Sensibility is a novel by Jane Austen.
- Madame Bovary is a novel by Gustave Flaubert.
Source: Poetryfoundation and Britannica
Charlotte Bronte is a Victorian novelist.
Famous Works:
- Jane Eyre,
- Shirley,
- Villette,
- The Professor etc.
Source: An ABC of English Literature - Dr. M Mofizar Rahman
Karl Marx: Revolutionary, sociologist, historian, and economist.
His famous books are:
- Das Kapital,
- Communist Manifesto,
- Holy Family,
- The Poverty of Philosophy.
Source: An ABC of English Literature, Dr M Mofizar Rahman and Britannica.