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In this period the oral literature was predominant and the most significant work was Beowulf and remarkable poets were Caedmon and Cynewulf.
During this time, the relevant topics for making prose were religion, medical or nature although, Beowulf was an adventure tale where imagination, heroism, and warriors are principal. -
During this period were remarkable the religious works, however, around 1350 secular literature took importance. Relevant authors were Thomas Malory, Robert Henryson and the outstanding works of this epoch include "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the green knight" -
The Renaissance was a fervent period of European cultural, artistic, political, and economic “rebirth” following the Middle Ages.
Some of the most famous and groundbreaking Renaissance intellectuals, artists, scientists, and writers include the likes of:
Leonardo Da Vinci, William Shakespeare, Rene Descartes, Geoffrey Chaucer and Dante -
It was an age considered to be the height of the English Renaissance and saw the full flowering of English literature and English poetry. Was recognized as the English drama epoch and counted with authors like Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare. -
This period was a Western cultural movement in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the art and culture of classical antiquity.
The earliest Neoclassical painters were Joseph-Marie Vien, Anton Raphael Mengs, Pompeo Batoni, Angelica Kauffmann, and Gavin Hamilton. -
period of visual and literary arts during the reign of James I of England. This period includes the works of Michael Drayton, John Donne, Elizabeth Cary, and Lady Mary Wroth. -
The Caroline period saw the flourishing of the cavalier poets (including Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and John Suckling) and the metaphysical poets (including George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips), movements that produced figures like John Donne, Robert Herrick, and John Milton. -
Dryden was the representative poet of this age. His Absalom and Achitophel and Mac Flecknoe are very popular satires. Samuel Butler and John Oldham are also famous for their satires. John Dryden, John Bunyan, Hobbes, Locke, Temple, etc. were eminent prose writers of this age. Congreve, Etherege, and Whycherly were the eminent writers of the comedy of manners. -
This period was featured by multiple changes as a phenomenon in literature because political satire, drama, and melodrama quickly evolved, being more stylized and conscious.
Poets like Lady Mary Wortley and Daniel Defoe were popular -
Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism, idealization of nature, suspicion of science and industrialization, and glorification of the past with a strong preference for the medieval rather than the classical. On the other hand, in this period happened the industrial revolution and evolution of visual arts, music, and education. -
During this period England became the world's wealthiest nation.
English was imposed as the medium of education. The remarkable authors of this period were Charles Dickens, Elizabeth Gaskell. They published novels in serial form in newspapers, it was a good received for lower-class workers to afford them -
This period coincides with the years that Queen Victoria ruled Great Britain. Poets of this time include Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, among others. Robert Browning and Alfred Tennyson were notable poets in Victorian England.
Also, this period is divided into three phases:
"Early" (1832 -1848)
"Mid" (1848 - 1870)
"Late" (1870 - 1901) -
Novels about heroes and heroines were very popular in this period. Also, Realism emerged in literature predominantly in novels, the main feature of this epoch was that realism also placed an emphasis on describing the material and physical details of life, as opposed to the natural world as characterized by the Romantic period. -
The most relevant authors of this period were Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Samuel Butler. -
Edwardian writers like E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, and H.G. Wells built upon the social conscience of the Victorian era (1837-1901), writers such as Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. Their epic Bildungsromans ‘Oliver Twist’ and ‘Jane Eyre’ probed at the disparity between social class, gender and family hierarchies. Later writers expanded upon these themes by satirizing the discrimination inherent in Victorian ideas towards different classes and foreign cultures -
Is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Some of the most notable writers of this period include Josep Conrad, Alfred Jarris, and the dramatist's Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett -
This period refers that is named for the reign of George V.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and Robinson Crusoe. Georgian poetry today is typically considered to be the works of minor poets anthologized by Edward Marsh. -
Metafiction, fragmented poetry was fashionable in this period, some of the authors of this epoch were Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, John Fowles, Anthony Burgess