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Autobiography, Memoir, Spiritual Autobiography
Autobiography, Memoir, Spiritual autobiography
* Biography
* Diaries and Journals
* Electronic literature
* Erotic literature
* Fable, Fairy tale, Folklore
* Fiction o Adventure novel o Children's literature o Comic novel o Crime fiction
+ Detective fiction o Fantasy (for more details see Fantasy subgenres; fantasy literature) o Gothic fiction (initially synonymous with horror) o Historical fiction o Horror o Medical novel o Mystery fiction o Philosophical novel o Political fiction o Romance novel
+ Historical romance o Saga, Family Saga o Satire o Science fiction (for more details see Science fiction genre) o Slave narrative o Thriller
+ Conspiracy fiction
+ Legal thriller
+ Psychological thriller
+ Spy fiction/Political thriller o Tragedy
Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): writers: Caedmon and Cynewulf. work: Beowulf (by anonymous).

1200-1500: Middle English Period :
Geoffrey Chaucer's(1343-1400) :
The Canterbury Tales, Troilus and Criseyde and Book of the Duchess.
Other Major Poems
The House of Fame, The Parliament of Fowles, The Legend of Good Women. Prose Treatises Treatise on the astrolabe. Short Poems The Complaint of Chaucer to His Purse ,Truth, Gentilesse, Merciles Beaute, Lak of Stedfastnesse, Against Women Unconstant.

Geoffrey Chaucer

Thomas Malory's (1405-1471) :
Morte d'Arthur. work: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (by anonymous).

1500-1660: The English Renaissance 1500-1558: Tudor Period (Humanist Era)
The Humanists:

Sir Thomas More (1478-1535) :
Utopia, The History of King Richard the Third, The Life of Pico della Mirandola, The Four Last Things, A Dialogue Concerning Tyndale, The Confutation of Tyndale's Answer, A Dialogue of Comfort Against Tribulation and Sadness of Christ . Sir Thomas More

John Skelton (1460-1529):
A ballade of the Scottysshe Kynge John Skelton

Sir Thomas Wyatt(1503-1542):
My Lute Awake! Once, As Methought, Fortune Me Kissed They Flee
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