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The literature of oral tradition, of a religious, medical and legal nature, goes back to Celtic England and the invasion of the Anglo-Saxons together with the Jutes until the conquest of England under the command of William. Recognized works:
- (975-1025) Epic Poem "Beowulf: Tells about a people called geados and their hero Beowulf.
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Transitional period between old and modern English with a religious and secular approach since 1350 where Anglo-Norman English predominates with French ancestry due to the invasion of the Normans.
The works include the stories of the kings of Great Britain.
Recognized works:
Le Morte d'Arthur written by Thomas Malory (1469)
The Canterbury Tales written by Geoffrey Chaucer (1387)
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It is the time of the end of the feudal system and the birth of the middle class merchants.
Access to science, technology and education usher in the golden age of English drama. It is divided into the Elizabethan Age, the Jacobean Age, the Carolina Age and the Commonwealth Period. Important event: the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy in this period the public theatres are closed to avoid to combat moral and religious transgressions. -
Recognized authors:
Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh and, of course, William Shakespeare author of Epiphany Night among others -
Recognized Authors: John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth. James Age Major Event: King James Bible Translation.
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This period stands out for the imitation of the Greco-Roman style where the man was seen as defective and the illustration where political gatherings accompanied by tea are born. This era is subdivided into: The Restoration, the Augustan Age, and the Age of Sensibility.
Renowned novelists: Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne, as well as poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy -
Recognized authors:
John Milton, Robert Burton and George Herbert. -
The political writings of John Milton, outstanding work: "Paradise Lost."
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The fashionable comedies written by William Congreve and John Dryden, the satires written by Samuel Butler stand out. There are other recognized authors such as Aphra Behn, John Bunyan and John Locke.
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Recognized Authors: Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley, and Daniel Defoe
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Recognized Authors: Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson.
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It is the time of the exaltation of the senses, feelings and imagination. Experiences are valued above all else.
Life focuses on the rural and natural. The works were personal, where the mysterious and infinite world was explored.
This is the time of the French Revolution
Featured Books: Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, : Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen. -
Time of struggle between the ideas of the Romantic, Gothic, Neoclassical and Enlightenment times.
Social, intellectual and political-religious conflicts are highlighted by the reform project and the expansion of the right to vote. The upper middle class seeks to fill positions as dignitaries, in the days of Queen Victoria.
Characters and authors are classified as tight-fisted, hypocritical, and narrow-minded. A recognized work of the period A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. -
This period is named after the son of Queen Victoria, Edward VII was characterized by the segregation of the lower social classes of the aristocratic and mercantile society, a growing interest in socialism and an industrial economic growth accelerated by the repercussions of the first war. World.
Renowned Authors: Renowned Novelists Joseph Conrad, Ford Mad ox. Ford, Rudyard Kipling, Poets: Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats. Dramatists: James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw. -
Includes the reigns of George I, George II, George III and George IV, George V is a period characterized by artistic movements, the resurgence of the novel as part of the flourishing of the middle class, thanks to the printing press. Writings of novels by the hand of women such as Jane Austen Author of Love and Prejudice are evidenced.
And Georgian poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies and Rupert Brooke with a rural or pastoral focus that is treated traditionally. -
This period is relevant to the writings made by the working class, written after the end of the First World War. They stand out Jack Jones, miner of coal like Lewis Jones of South Wales and Harol Heslop.
The novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster and Doris Lessing; the poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves. -
Period developed at the end of the Second World War, the writings are a reaction against the ideas of the illustration expressed in modernism. Renowned writers Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks.