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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English (Anglo- Saxon)
This term comes from two Germanic tribes: the Angles and the Saxons.
Important works: "Beowulf "
Poets: Caedmon and Cynewolf -
1000
Old English (Anglo- Saxon)
Beowulf is an Old English epic poem. It is one of the most important and most often translated works of Old English literature. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Period
Huge transition between two eras: Old English and Modern English.
Much of the middle English writings were religion in nature
Autors like Chaucer, Thomas Malory and Robert Henryson.
Notable works: "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the green Knight" -
1400
Middle English Period
The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
four parts:
-Elizabethan Age (1558-1603) Notable Autors: Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and, of course, William Shakespeare.
-The Jacobean Age(1603-1625) Autors: John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth.
-The Caroline Age (1625-1649) Autors: John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert
-Commonwealth Period(1649-1660) Autors Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell -
1550
The Renaissance
time of Elizabethan literature a vigorous literary culture in both drama and poetry included poets such as Edmund Spenser, whose verse epic The Faerie Queene had a strong influence on English literature but was eventually overshadowed by the lyrics of William Shakespeare, Thomas Wyatt and others. -
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The Neoclassical Period
Divided in 3 Ages:
-The Restoration (1660–1700) Autors: William Congreve and John Dryden. Satire, Aphra Behn, John Bunyan, and John Locke.
-The Augustan Age (1700–1745) Autors:Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Daniel Defoe
-The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785) Autors: Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson. INovelists like Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne -
The Neoclassical Period
Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks.
the Neoclassical period ended in 1798 when Wordsworth published the Romantic 'Lyrical Ballads'. -
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The Romantic Period
Is referring to this great and diverse age of British literature,
This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley. There is also a minor period, also quite popular (between 1786–1800), called the Gothic era. Writers of note for this period include Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe, and William Beckford -
The Romantic Period
-Mary Shelley's famous novel 'Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus' was first published on January 1th, 1818. -Don Juan is a satirical poem created by Lord Byron, based on the legend of Don Juan. -
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The Victorian Period
It was a time of great social, religious, intellectual, and economic issues, The period has often been divided into
- “Early” (1832–1848),
- “Mid” (1848–1870)
- “Late” (1870–1901)
Poets of this time include Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, Others like Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater Charles Dickens,among others -
The Victorian Period
-Great expectations by Charles Dickens (1861) -
The Victorian Period
-The picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde (1890) -
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The Edwardian Period
Short period that includes incredible classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Henry James; notable poets such as Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats; and dramatists such as James Barrie, George -
The Edwardian Period
Peter Pan by James Matthew Barrie -
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The Georgian Period
The themes and subject matter tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and traditionally rather than with passion
Georgian poetry today is typically considered to be the works of minor poets anthologized by Edward Marsh. -
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The Modern Period
Works written after the start of World War I.
novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing
Poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves;
Dramatists Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill. -
The Georgian Period
Edward Marsh Translator, Marsh edited five anthologies of Georgian Poetry between 1912- 1922.
He became Rupert Brooke's literary executor, editing Brooke's Collected Poems (1918)
He published verse translations of La Fontaine and Horace, and a translation of Fromentin's novel, "Dominique". -
The Modern Period
Mrs. Dalloway is the fourth novel of Virginia Woolf, published on May 14, 1925. It details a day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, in England after World War I. -
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The Postmodern Period
Begins about the time that World War II ended. Some say the period ended about 1990, but it is likely too soon to declare this period closed.
Notable writers of the period: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. Many postmodern authors wrote during the modern period as well. -
The Postmodern Period
Catch-22 is novel by American author Joseph Heller. He began writing it in 1953; the novel was first published in 1961
