All we need to konw about English Literature

Believes	School of thought	works	Writers/poet	Philosophers /critics	Period	Age
	Paganism	-Iliad odyssey -Beowulf	-Homer -Virgil		Old English(Anglo-Saxon period)	450-1066
-Wheel of fortune -chain of being -Christ -feudalism -courtly love		Canterbury tale	Chaucer		Middle English	1066-1500
			-Sir thomas Hoby -Earl of Surrey	Critics     -Stephen Gosson -Sir Thomas Elyot -sir Philip Sidney -Ben Jonson	The Renaissance (Early Modern) Elizabethan Age Jacobean Age Carolin Age Common wealth (puritan interregnum)	1500-1660 1558-1603 1603-1625 1625-1649 1649-1660
		Astrophel & Stella	sir Philip Sidney
		-Complaint of Rosamond -Musophilus  or Defence of all learning	-Samuel Daniel	1562-1619
		Delia	-Ben Jonson	1572-1637
		Idea's Mirror	Michael Drayton	1563-1631
		-England's Heroical Epistles	Edmund Spenser	1552-1599
		Four Hymns	Shakespeare	1564-1616
			Christopher Marlowe	1564-1593
			John Donne	1572-1631
			Richard Crashaw	1613-1649
			Henry Vaughan	1621-1695
			Abraham Cowley	1618-1667
		-The Mistress -Centuries of meditation	Thomas Traherne	1637-1674
			Andrew Marwell	1621-1678
		Paradise Lost	John Milton	1608-1674	Common wealth