- •1.Anglo-Saxon literature. Genre variety of Anglo-Saxon literature. Style and language peculiarities.
- •2. Anglo-Saxon literature. “Beowulf”, its plot and composition, the peculiarities of the language. Anglo-Saxon verse, alliteration. Beowulf as the national hero.
- •3.English literature of the Middle Ages and genre variety. English ballads. The peculiarities of the genre. Ballads of Robin Hood. Robin Hood and the national idea of justice.
- •5.The genre variety of “The Canterbury Tales” by g. Chaucer and the ideas of humanism.
- •7.W. Shakespeare’s tragedies .
- •8.W. Shakespeare’s comedies. The analysis of any comedy.
- •9.English literature of 17 century. The Cavalier and Metaphysical poets. J. Donne, g. Herbert, a. Marwell; the main ideas of their poetry.
- •10.English literature of 17 century. J. Milton’s poem “Paradise Lost”, the plot, the portrayal of Satan, the concept of God and man.
- •11.The literature of the Restoration period. W. Wyrcherley, w. Congreve.
- •12.English literature of 17 century. J. Dryden, the founder of classicism. The general characteristics of his works.
- •13.The early period of Enlightenment. ‘The Augustan Age’. The poetry of a. Pope. “The Rape of the Lock”.
- •14.English literature of the Enlightenment. D. Defoe’s novel “Robinson Crusoe” or in j. Swift’s novel “Gulliver’s Travels”, the satirical skill of the author.
14.English literature of the Enlightenment. D. Defoe’s novel “Robinson Crusoe” or in j. Swift’s novel “Gulliver’s Travels”, the satirical skill of the author.
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. The book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Venezuela, encountering Native Americans, captives and mutineers before being rescued.
Gulliver's Travels[note 1] (1726, amended 1735), is a novel by Anglo-Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature.
The book became tremendously popular as soon as it was published (John Gay said in a 1726 letter to Swift that "it is universally read, from the cabinet council to the nursery"[1]); since then, it has never been out of print.
Part I: A Voyage to Lilliput, Part II: A Voyage to Brobdingnag, Part III: A Voyage to Laputa, Balnibarbi, Luggnagg, Glubbdubdrib, and Japan, Part IV: A Voyage to the Country of the Houyhnhnms.