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Anglo Saxon
Anglo Saxons were people running from Northern Europe and away from advancing Huns are inviting Britain. People who occupied Great Britain . Many British groups who adopted some aspects of Anglo Saxon culture and language. -
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Anglo Saxon
Anglo Saxon conquered Britain. Anglo Saxon language forms our modern English today. Only a few books were written in Old English, Anglo Saxon brought with them from Continent the rude begins of poetry. This was the early pagan poetry and "Beowulf". -
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old English: Bede, Caedmon Cynewulf . Renaissance: William Shakespeare, Macbeth . Neo-classicism: Voltaire, Candide . Romanticism: Charlotte Bronte Jane Eyre . Modern: T.S. Eliot, The Hollow Men . Contemporary: The great Gatsby. -
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Medieval Period
Medieval Period began in the 5th century with the collapse of the Western Roman Empire and merged into the Renaissance and the age of Discovery in the 15th century. -
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Middle English
In the middle English period literary culture was more international than national and was divided by lines of class and audience than by language. Middle English was most of which derive from sophisticated French and Italian sources. Text from Middle English attempted to convey that diversity. The earliest poem was by Caedmon's Hymn. -
Jan 1, 1066
Middle english
Middle England began with the Norman invasion of 1066. After the victory of the whole England. Norman French replaced English as the language of the government and the church. https://www.uni-due.de/SHE/HE_ME_Writings.htm -
Jan 1, 1500
Renaissance
"rebirth" period after the Middle Ages the time when there was a sudden interest in classical learning and values.
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Jan 1, 1500
Renaissance
In Europe it was like awakening from a long sumber of the dark ages. Poetry and dramas took over this period like lyric, the elegy the tragedy, and the pastoral. The expectations during this time were about style , subject matter, tone and even plot details were well established for each poetic genre. Poetry was also accompined by music. Renaissance poetry was ostentatious, repetitious and often had subtle wit. http://www.online-literature.com/periods/renaissance.php -
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Renaissance
The "rebirth" period this happened after the Middle Ages the time when there was a sudden interest in classical learning and values. -
Jan 1, 1501
modern era
The particular aspects of early modernity and the Renaissance. The reformation and counter reformation. http://www.americaslibrary.gov/jb/modern/jb_modern_subj.html
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Neo-classicism
The writing during this time has a classical style of the ancient Greeks and romans , which had no emphasis on logic, common sense, properness and adequate performance those are some of the characteristics of society. Neo-Classicism response to the chaos of the Renaissance. The writting included a veriety of genres and satires and grammar became more formalized. Then the writing became more romantic. Neo-Classical lit. was divided. http://www.wisegeek.org/what-is-neoclassical-literature.htm -
Neo-Classicism
Also known as the Age of reason (the Enlightenment) at this time philosophers believed that we would be apt to manage our destinies by learning from the laws of nature. At this time the scientific injury attracted more attention. As a result Neo-classicism continued the connection to the classical tradition because it meant moderation and rational thinking. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/408739/Neoclassicism -
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Neo-Classicism
Neo-Classicism were Western movements in visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that drew inspiration from the Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome.
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Romanticism
During this time poetry was the most important and there were many complex versions of poetry. Literary forms like political pamphlets, reviews, drama, and novels flourished. The focus was on visual spectacle rather than literary value. http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael9/section/volD/overview.aspx -
Romanticism
Also known as the Romantic Period. Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that began in Europe near the end of the 18th century. http://www.uh.edu/engines/romanticism/introduction.html -
Victorian
Victorian writers used some habits from previous eras, to publish arts and letters. At this time the romantics identified themselves described this generation of writers. Then novels became more “fasionable” than poetry. http://www.online-literature.com/periods/victorian.php -
Victorian
The Victorian period began when Victoria became Queen and the Victorian times end the hear of her death in 1901. https://faculty.unlv.edu/kirschen/handouts/victorian.html -
Contemporary
Contemporary is best explained as an extent of historic events that are closely connected to the present time. http://study.com/academy/lesson/the-contemporary-period-in-american-literature.html
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Modern
This period is know for broken tradition than by creating tradition. Literature was created with tension, struggling with universal questions never to be answered. Modernist poet showed a deep dissatisfaction with tradition. Poetry focused on stylistic exploration, poets like today sought to draw the reader into there work. However many people were rebelling to social change. http://www2.uncp.edu/home/canada/work/allam/1914-/lit/lit.htm -
Contemporary
Contemporary literature is difficult to characterized because it shows contemporary life and culture. Literature is ironic because it reflects political, social and personal disillusionment, it also is meant for us to depend on our perspectives. http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/bobtam/website/an_very_brief_overview_of_contem.htm -
Post Modern
A literary movement of post-1950s. The 1950s were marked by the Cold War and excesses of consumption . www.darc.org/connelly/religion5.html -
Post modern
Post modern literature was marked by both stylistically and ideologically by reliance on fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self reference . http://study.com/academy/lesson/postmodernism-in-literature-definition-lesson-quiz.html -
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Anglo Saxon (key historical event)
Anglo Saxons took over Britain which they later called England
