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1590 BCE
TUDOR ERA POETRY 1590
SIGNIFICANT DEVELOPMENT WAS THE REFINEMENT OF THE SONNET, SEQUENCES, AND SERIES LINKED TOGETHER BY THEME AND CONTENT. WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE ESTABLISHED A SONNET SEQUENCE WRITING LONG NARRATIVE POEMS SUCH AS THE RAPE OF LUCRECE. POETS EXPERIMENT WITH DIFFERENT FORMS LIKE STRAMBOTTO, EPANODES, QUANTITATIVE VERSES, QUATORZAINS. -
1572 BCE
METAPHYSICAL POETRY 1572
JOHN DONNE, WRITES LOVE POEMS, USE THE IRONY, THE PREOCCUPATION OF BIG QUESTION OF LOVE, DEAD, RELIGION, FAITH. IT EXPLORES THE CONSCIOUSNESS. -
1564 BCE
SHAKESPEARE 1564
RECOGNIZED PLAYWRITING, HIS WORK PLAYS, POEMS, SONNETS, COMEDIES, HE TALKED ABOUT THE HUMAN CONDITION, HE WROTE WITH ELABORATE METHAPHORES WITH SMALL DEGREE OF VARIATION. HIS WORK IS FAMOUS AND RECOGNIZED. HE PRESENTED THE REAL HUMAN BEINGS THE EMOTIONS AND CONFLICTS INTO THE DIFFERENT CULTURAL AND POLITICAL CONTEXT. -
1400 BCE
THE ENGLISH RENASCENCE 1400-1660
There is an intellectual and imaginative impulse, time of imaginative splendor, time to drama, comedy, representing the life, theater, important authors of this age: Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare. -
1343 BCE
GEOFFREY CHAUCER 1343 to 1400
FATHER OF ENGLISH LITERATURE, IMPORTANT POET OF THE MIDDLE AGE, HE PROVED THAT THE LITERATURE WRITTEN IN ENGLISH COULD BE BEAUTIFUL, WITH HIS AMAZING LITERATURE HAS CONTRIBUTED WITH THE CREATION OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE DICTIONARIES. HIS POETRY WAS FOCUSING ON RHYME. HIS WORK CANTERBURY TALES. -
1050 BCE
MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD c1050-c.1400
Norman conquest, as result formation of literary dialects, the influence of French in high social classes, grammar is less synthetic and more analytic, the vocabulary is more heterogeneous showing many borrowings from French, Latin, and Scandinavian. Religious writings in English are common. -
650 BCE
ANGLO SAXON PERIOD c.650 - c.1100
Epic period in which poems were important like Beowulf , in this period there is no lyric poetry, the prose was written in Latin -
1401
THE DECLINE OF ENGLISH LITERATURE AFTER CHAUCER
SOCIAL DISORDER, TIME OF WAR, LACK OF GENIUS, DURING THIS PERIOD NO WRITERS AND GENIUS WAS BORN BUT AT THE SAME TIME IT WAS A TIME FOR PREPARATION EDUCATION WAS SECULARISED, THE SETTING OF THE PRINTING PRESS BY CAXTON 1476 MAKE CHEAP BOOKS AND HELP FOR THE FORMATION OF LITERARY ENGLISH. -
1500
THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENGLISH DRAMA
IN THE BEGINNING, DRAMA WAS ON THE CONTROL OF THE CHURCH BUT LAYMEN BEGAN TO TAKE PART WRITTEN NEW PLAYS AND THEY USED THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE INSTEAD OF LATIN. AS A RESULT, THE DRAMA WAS FREE OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH. THIS FREEDOM AS A RESULT OF NEW PLAYS AND AUTHORS AS CHRISTOPHER MARLOW WRITER OF TRAGEDIES. -
1552
SPENCER THE POET´S POET
NON DRAMATIC POET, HE WAS FED BY THE REFORMATION AND CULTURE AND LOVE OF MEDIEVAL ROMANCE AND CULTURE. HE IDENTIFIED TR RELIGION WITH ENGLISH PROTESTANTISM, HIS WORK REPRESENTED THE COMBINATION OF THE SPIRITU OF RENAISSANCE WITH THE SPIRIT OF REFORMATION -
1558
THE AGE OF SHAKESPEARE 1558 - 1625
RENAISSANCE OF CLASSICAL LEARNING, MYTHOLOGY, LITERATURE, AND CULTURE. IN ENGLAND IT WAS INFLUENCES BY THE POLICIES OF QUEEN ELIZABETH. LITERATURE AND ART ARE PEACE-TIME ACTIVITIES THE POLICIES OF THE QUEEN PROMOTE ART AND LITERATURE. IMPORTANT AUTHORS OF THIS AGE: EDMUND SPENSER WITH HIS WORK THE FAERIE QUEENE, HE IS CONSIDERED THE BEST POETRY OF THIS AGE. -
1558
JACOBEN AGE 1603 1625
RAPID DEVELOPMENT IN SOCIETY, CULTURAL AND POLITICAL LIFE, THIS PERIOD IS RICH IN THE PRODUCTION OF PLAYS AND SONNEST, POLITICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL ESSAYS. THIS AGE IS PART OF THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE AGE. -
1564
CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE 1564 - 1593
THE FATHER OF ENGLISH DRAMA, HE ADAPTED THE ROMANTIC DRAMA, THE DRAMA OF THE PEOPLE AND OTHER ELEMENTS TO DEVELOPING A DIVERSE FUSION. HE USED THE BLANK VERSE INSTEAD OF RHYME CHANGE THE FORM OF ENGLISH DRAMA, HE WAS THE FIRST ON CONSTRUCT A COHERENT PLOT. IT IS THE FIRST TIME WHERE A CHARACTER IS DEVELOPED WITH DIALOGUES AND ACTING. HE MADE TRAGEDY A MATERIAL OF INDIVIDUAL HEROES, HE INTRODUCED ELEMENT OF STRUGGLE AND CONFLICT, HIS INTENTION IS NOT A MORAL LESSON. -
CAROLINE AGE 1625 - 1649
ENGLAND IS COSMOPOLITAN, THE THEATER IS MULTILINGUAL IT PUTS THE THEATER IN AN AREA FOR THE DISCUSSION OF THE CONTEMPORARY SOCIAL AND POLITICAL SITUATION. BESIDES, THE ROYAL PATRONAGE ESTABLISHED NEW RELIGIOUS, CULTURAL, ARTISTIC AND SOCIAL DYNAMICS. -
THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD 1660 - 1798
PERIOD OF THE RETURN OF THE STUARTS TO THE ENGLISH THRONE, THERE ARE MOVEMENTS IN THE DECORATIVE AND VISUAL ARTS. THE REPRESENTATIVE AUTHOR OF THE PERIOD IS JOHN MILTON 1608 - 1674, WITH HIS POEMS PARADISE LOST AND PARADISE REGAINED. -
THE RESTORATION 1660 - 1700
IN THIS PERIOD ENGLISH LITERATURE ACHIEVE A WIDER POPULARITY AMONG ALL SOCIAL CLASSES, THIS TERMS REFERS TO LITERATURE WRITTEN AFTER THE RESTORATION OF ENGLISH MONARCHY. NEW SOCIAL AND ECONOMIC CONDITION, WRITERS GAINED CONFIDENCE, EXISTS NEW CONCEPTS SCIENTIFIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL, THIS PERIOD IS OF DRAMA. -
AUGUSTAN AGE 1770 - 1745
PERIOD OF CHANGES, INFLUENCED BY INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION AND REVOLUTION OF FRANCE. LONDON IS THE CENTER OF THE LITERARY, INTELLECTUAL LIFE, PLACE OF THE WRITER LIFE. DEVELOPMENT OF THE NOVEL, SATIRE. IMPORTANT WRITERS ALEXANDER POPE, WILLIAM DEFOE. -
AGE OF SENSIBILITY 1750 1798
OR AGE OF JOHNSON, ENGLISH AUTHOR WHO CONTRIBUTE TO ENGLISH LITERATURE AS A POET, ESSAYIST, CRITIC, EDITOR. IN THIS PERIOD EVOLVE THE SENTIMENTAL NOVEL USING EMOTIONAL AND SENTIMENTAL CONCEPTS. EXITS A ROMANTIC MOVEMENT IN ENGLISH LITERATURE. FOREIGN INFLUENCES AS GOETHE, SCHILLER, AND WILHELM. ANOTHER INFLUENCE OF THE PHILOSOPHER JEAN ROUSSEAU. -
ROMANTIC PERIOD 1785- 1830
THE LITERATURE IS CHARACTERIZED BY THE USE OF SYMBOLISM, IT CONSIDERS THAT LITERATURE CAN BE IMAGINATIVE, SPONTANEOUS, PERSONAL AND FREE, IT EXPLORES THE FIELDS NATURAL AND SUPERNATURAL. REPRESENTATIVE AUTHORS LORD BYRON, SAMUEL TAYLOR, JANE AUSTEN. -
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD 1832 - 1901
PERIOD OF GROWING CLASS TENSION, EARLY FEMINIST MOVEMENT THAT INFLUENCED IN THE POLITICAL AND SOCIAL REFORM, EVOLUTION OF THE PHILOSOPHY AND RELIGION. AUTHOR AS ALFRED LORD, ELIZABETH BARRET, CHARLES DIKENDS, GEORGE ELIOT. -
THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD 1901 - 1914
THE BEGINNING OF WORLD WAR THAT´S WHY WRITERS ATTACK SOCIAL INJUSTICE AND BAD SOCIAL CONDITIONS. AUTHORS, GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, H.G WELLS, WILLIAM BUTLER. -
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD 1910 - 1936
THIS ERA PRODUCES POETS FOCUSED ON RURAL SUBJECT. AUTHORS EDWARD MARSH. -
MODERN PERIOD 1914 - 1945
THE TRADITION LOSE IMPORTANCE, ITS CHARACTERISTICS ARE EXPERIMENTATION AND INDIVIDUALISM, MORE TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCES, THE CONCEPT OF INDUSTRIALIMS IS INTRODUCED, OTHER CONCEPT PRE IMPRESSIONISM PEOPLE BEGIN TO SEE THE WORLD IN A DIFFERENT WAY, OTHER EVENTS; WOMEN RIGHTS, GREAT DEPRESSION, SECOND WORLD WAR. AUTHORS, VIRGINIA WOLF, AGATHA CRISTIE, OSCAR WILDE, EDGAR ALAN POE.
