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It began in the 5th century when the Jutes, Angles, and Saxons came to England from Germany, defeated the English tribes, and began their reign. It ended in 1066 with the Norman conquest. -
This period began with the Norman Conquest in 1066 and ended at the end of the 15th century. It has two periods. The period from 1066 to 1340 is called the Anglo-Norman period because the literature of that period was written primarily in Anglo-Norman. The period from 1340 to 1400 is called the Age of Chaucer because Chaucer, the great poet, dominated this period. The time from 1066 to 1500 is also called the Middle Ages. -
The "Early Modern Age" period, but we retain the name historically "Renaissance". Some of his figures include Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and of course William Shakespeare. -
The Neoclassical period is subdivided into ages, including the Restoration (1660-1700), the Age of Augustus (1700-1745), and the Age of Sensibility (1745-1785). The Restoration period sees some response to the Puritan era, especially in the theater. Restoration comedies (style comedies) developed during this time under the talents of playwrights such as William Congreve and John Dryden. -
Romanticism is the largest literary and artistic movement of the 1700s, according to many scholars. The romantic period of poetry occurred when England was transforming its economy from agriculture to trade, manufacturing, and commerce. The Poet unites by passion and knowledge the vast empire of human society....
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The Victorian period is in strong conflict with the Romantic period as the most popular, influential, and prolific period in all of English (and world) literature. Poets of this era include Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold. -
The Edwardian era (1901-1914) is the last period in British history to be named after the monarch who reigned over it. According to Edward VII, who reigned from 1901 to 1910 and was succeeded by George V, he considers that the Edwardian period ended with the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. -
The Georgian period refers to the reign of George V (1910-1936), it also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714-1830. Here, we refer to the above description as it applies chronologically and covers, for example, Georgian poets such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, WH Davies, and Rupert Brooke. Edward Marsh. -
The modern period traditionally applies to works written after the start of World War I. Common features include bold experimentation with theme, style, and form, spanning narrative, verse, and drama. Many, including Gertrude Stein.
Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, e. me. Cummings, Sherwood Anderson, and William Slater Brown even became expatriates in Europe during the 1920s. -
The postmodernist period occurred immediately after the modernist period. The events that inspired this movement were the end of World War II. The works of postmodernism were characterized by multiple qualities. Some say the period ended around 1990. Some notable writers from the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller,. Lively and Iain Banks.