English Literature: Augustan, Romantic Period

1.  An Essay on Man
2. The Dunciad

Famous Epic:

1. The Rape of the Lock

Famous quotes:

1. “A little learning is a dangerous thing.”
2. “Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.”

1. Gulliver’s Travels
2. A modest proposal

Famous Novels:

1. Robinson Crusoe
2. Colonel Jack

Famous quote:

“Thus fear of danger is ten thousand times more terrifying than danger itself.”

1. Pamela
2. Clarissa

and Richard Steele (1672 – 1729)

• The Spectator (a daily publication founded by them)
• The Tatler (a literary and society journal begun by Richard Steele)
• “Sir Roger at Church” -Joseph Addison এর বিখ্যাত essay

• Writer of English Dictionary
• Shakespeare Critic

1. A preface to Shakespeare
2. A varsity of Human Wishes
3. London (a poem)

Quote: “Man errs so long as he strives”

• তাকে English Novel এর জনক বলা হয়
• Pen Name – Captain Hercules Vinegar 

Well known plays:

1. The tragedy of tragedies
2. The temple beau

Famous Novels:

1. The History of Tom Jones, a founding
2. Amelia

1. The Citizen of the World
2. The Vicar of Wakefield
3. The Deserted Village (Poem)
4. She stoops to conquer (play)

Famous Quotes:

 “Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air.” 

Famous Quotes: The greater the power the more dangerous the abuse

1. The Theory of Moral Sentiments
2. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations

1. The Social Contract
2. Emile (On Education)

1. Candide
2. Zaire

Quotes: 

• If God didn’t exist it would be necessary to invent him

Titles:

• Poet of Nature
• Poet of Childhood
• Lake Poet
• Believer of Pantheism
• Father of Romantic Age

Famous Poems:

1. The Daffodils
2. The Solitary Reapers

Famous Quotes:

1. Child is the father of the man.
2. All at once I saw crowed, A Host, of Golden daffodils

Quote from “The Rime of the Ancient Mariner”: Alone, alone, all alone

Alone on a wide, wide sea

Revolutionary poet of English Literature

1. The Revolt of Islam
2. The Necessity of Atheism
3. The Cenci (play)

Quotes:

1. If winter comes can spring be far behind?
2. Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thoughts.

• Poet of Beauty
• Poet of sensuousness 

1. Endymion
2. Lamia

Quotes:

1. Beauty is truth, truth is beauty.
2. ‘My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains/ My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk.’

1. Songs of Innocence
2. Milton (a poem)

Quotes:

1. All Pray in their distress.
2. Little lamb, who made thee?

1. The Essays of Elia
2. Tales from Shakespeare

1. The Spirit of the Age
2. Prejudice is the child of ignorance

Quotes:

• Poverty is the test of civility and the touchstone of friendship

Title: Rebel Poet

1. The Vision of Judgment
2. Hours of Idleness

বায়রনের বিখ্যাত গীতি কবিতা: “She Walks in Beauty”

Famous Quotes:

• Sweet is revenge – especially to women

1. Pride and Prejudice

Quote: “A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony (বিবাহ) in a moment.”

1. Eugene Onegin (novel)
2. Boris Godunov (Play)