Survey of English Literature
Thomas Klise
This magnificent five-part series offers a look at the history of English literature from the 1600s to the 20th century. Through colorful photograp...
View full detailsThis magnificent five-part series offers a look at the history of English literature from the 1600s to the 20th century. Through colorful photograp...
View full detailsThere exist many and excellent reasons for calling William Faulkner the greatest American novelist of the 20th century. He approached his material ...
View full detailsThis program traces the life and work of Emily Dickinson, and explores the world in which Dickinson lived. Each section is accompanied by a compreh...
View full detailsSince the dawn of literature, no writer has matched the combination of dramatic genius and popular appeal that we find in William Shakespeare. This...
View full detailsTo many, Robert Frost might come across as a lyricist of nature, a 20th century James Russell Lowell. His stubborn traditional form, however, often...
View full detailsThe novels of John Steinbeck form an epic to the American loser, and the saga of Steinbeck’s losers is a chronicle of exile and hardship. Out of th...
View full detailsIn the long story that is English literature there is no one quite like Charles Dickens, and his appeal to readers remains as strong today as it wa...
View full detailsThis program offers 50 activities designed to reinforce student understanding of terms like plot, conflict, character, flashback, foreshadowing, po...
View full detailsWalt Whitman was the first American to take the common experience of man as the very source of high poetry. His masterpiece Leaves of Grass is mor...
View full detailsThis program provides a bright and thoughtful analysis of five of Shakespeare’s most important and influential plays: Julius Caesar, Macbeth, Romeo...
View full details“Show me a hero,” Scott Fitzgerald once said, “and I’ll write you a tragedy.” And while Fitzgerald’s life was as heroic as any he ever created for ...
View full detailsFour hundred years ago, there lived in England an actor, poet, and playwright named William Shakespeare. This superb two-part set offers a look at ...
View full detailsShakespeare’s Hamlet is a work of drama and movement, full of stalking ghosts and fencing matches, pirate ships and dark castles. Despite this cons...
View full detailsThis presentation of the life and works of George Orwell offers a portrait of a political writer whose major themes are man and his state, surely a...
View full detailsWhen The Great Gatsby appeared in 1925, it was hailed by T.S. Eliot as the first step forward in American fiction since Henry James, and the interv...
View full detailsGeoffrey Chaucer was the first major personality in English literature, and his accounts of the medieval world are unmatched by an historian. Part ...
View full detailsIn this program, students will review twelve individual lessons on the basic terms in literature including plot, setting, theme, character, conflic...
View full detailsHere we explain the most common literary terms encountered in typical units of poetry, short story, novel, and drama. Terms for poetry classes incl...
View full detailsWilliam Wordsworth is the greatest figure of the Romantic Age in English literature, and ranks with Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Milton as one of the ...
View full detailsJane Austen is one of the few writers that is a favorite of both literary scholars and the reading public, and her six novels rank among the classi...
View full detailsGuy DeMaupassant fashioned many unforgettable stories and characters and, for himself, a place in history as the father of the modern short story. ...
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