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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
English literature begins with the Anglo-Saxon period, when the Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving the Germanic and Scandinavian settlers. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
the period of Old English ended with the Norman invasion of 1066, when the franaces became the language of the educated classes, and gradually merged with the Anglo-Saxon to produce the average English. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
The dominant forms of literature in the Renaissance in English were the poem and the drama. Among the many varieties of poetry that one could have found in eighteenth-century England were lyric, elegy, tragedy and pastoral.also known as the Elizabethan era -
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Puritan
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Restoration Age
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18th Century
The 18th century is famous for its essayists and satirists and for the appearance of the novel and its precursors. The decades that ended the 18th century and opened the 19th ushered in the British Romantic period, and the works of the Romantic poets. The 19th century is considered the great age of the novel. The turn of the 20th century saw the rise of modernism, a movement characterized by stylistic experimentation and the questioning of traditional values. -
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Romanticism
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love and nature. Many of these authors found the world to be disappointing and had a melancholy bent to their works. John Keats is possibly the most famous author of this period. Students often study his many odes, especially one contemplating the unchanging nature and eternal youthfulness of characters painted on a Grecian urn. William Wordsworth is also a key figure, with the notable poem -
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Victorian
the Victorian period was based on long and prodigious novels, which lasted from the mid-nineteenth century until the beginning of the twentieth century -
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Modern Literature
Modernist English literature includes the works of William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
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Post Moderns
Modernists introduced important stylistic innovations such as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories driven more by psychology than by external plot. -
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Contemporary
study of English literature from the 1950s to the present, as well as the critical analysis of literary discourses and specific texts corresponding to that era. This subject allows the students who study the Degree in English Studies to get in touch with the historical-cultural bases of British society between the 20th century and the 21st century.