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Feb 1, 700
Key Historical Events
-approximate date of the earlies manuscripts records of of Old English
(thehistoryofenglish.com) -
Mar 1, 750
Three Major Authors
-Elene by Cynewulf
-The Song of Roland by Turlod
- Bede's Death Song by Bede
(http://people.umass.edu/eng2/per/oe_majauth.html) -
Dec 1, 1066
Annotate
Anglo-Saxons brought their language to England during the 5th and 6th centuries. Political and culture events changed Anglo-Saxons language to what we speak today. There are 400 surviving manuscripts. Old English works consist of sermons' and saints' lives, practical works on poetry and grammer.
(ai.stanford.edu) -
Jan 1, 1100
Middle English (Medieval)
through Dec 1500 -
Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Dec 1, 1500
Middle English
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Feb 1, 1300
Key Historical Events
--Anglo Normans learned Egnlish and borrowed French words in the periods through 1300.
(uta.edu) -
Apr 1, 1369
3 Major Authors
-"Opus Majus" by Roger Bacon (1214-1294)
-"Canterby" by William Caxton (1422-1491)
-"Book of the Duchess" (1369)
(uni-due.de) -
Jan 1, 1400
Renaissance
through Dec 1700 -
Period: Jan 1, 1400 to
Renassiance
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Apr 1, 1453
Key Historical Events
-"Ottoman conquest of Constantinople: many Greek thinkers and works travel westward; end of Hundred Years War: stability returns to north-west Europe"
(http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/rentimeline.htm). -
Mar 1, 1454
Key Historical Events
-The Gutenberg Bible was published;printed
revolutionises European literacy.
(http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/rentimeline.htm) -
Mar 1, 1500
Key Historical Events
-English Poets in the 15th century looked up tp Chaucer. He was referred to as "English Homer".
(wwnorton,com) -
May 1, 1500
Three Major Authors
-Erasmus: Praise of Folly(1511) and De Copia (1512)
-Shakespeare: Hamlet (1603)
-Whitney: The Copy of a Letter (1567)
(http://europeanhistory.about.com/od/therenaissance/a/rentimeline.htm) -
Dec 1, 1500
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Period: to
Neo-Classican
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Neo-Classican
through 1798 -
Key Historical Events
The Restoration poetry was mostly satirical, realistic and written in the heroic couplet, of which Dryden was the supreme master.
(http://neoclassical-poetry.bloomyebooks.com/p/the-age.html) -
Three Major Authors
-The Hind and the Panther by John Dryden (1687)
-Paradise Regained by John Milton (1671)
-The Rape of the Lock by Alexander Pope ( 1712) -
Key Historical Events
The original Augustan Age was the brilliant literary period of Virgil, Horace and Ovid under the Roman emperor Augustus. The eighteenth century in English literature has been called the Augustan Age, the Neoclassical Age, and the Age of Reason.
(http://neoclassical-poetry.bloomyebooks.com/p/the-age.html) -
Annotate
The Renaissance period was a cultural and very focused on education and political situations. Philopshies turned into a new wave of artistic creation during that period after the dark ages.
(http://www.online-literature.com/periods/renaissance.php) -
Annotate
During the Neo-Classican period it was inspired by western movements in the visial arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture from cultures of Ancient Greece or Antient Rome, -
Romanticism
this period of literature was taken throughout the 1800s -
Period: to
Romanticism
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Three Major Authors
-Frankenstein by Mary Shelley (1818)
-The Eve of St Agnes by John Keats (1819)
-Manfred by Georde Gordon ( 1817) -
Key Historical Events
In Germany art, Friedrich Schiller produced plays known for their sense of a German "Volk", or national spirit. Karl Friedrich Schinckel led the Gothic Revival movement, beginning his first plans for Gothic structure.
(http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/1848/section5.rhtml) -
Victorian
through 1900 -
Period: to
Victorian
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Key Historical Events
In France, the romaticism movement was led by men like Victor Hugo, who wrote the Hunchback of Notre Dame.
(http://www.sparknotes.com/history/european/1848/section5.rhtml) -
Three Major Authors
-A Christmas Carolby Charles Dickens (1843)
-Canford by Elizabeth Gaskell (1851)
-Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Caroll (1865) -
Key Historical Events
The literature of this time period often focused on the plight of the poor and the new urban reality of industrial England. Many writers commented on what had emerged as the two Englands: that of the wealthy (by far the minority) and that of the poor (by far the majority).
(http://www.wwnorton.com/college/english/nael9/section/volE/overview.aspx) -
Annotate
Many Romanticism authors were influenced by personal and liberty ideas. Authors wrote based off the naturual world artists and used many criticism and other nonfictional proposals in their novels.
(infoplease.com) -
Modern
this period varied from the 1900s to the 20th century -
Period: to
Modern
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Key Histrical Events
"In the early years of the Victorian Period, poetry was still the most visible of literary forms. Like everything else, poetry and poetics underwent an evolution during the nineteenth century. Both the purpose of poetry and its basic style and tone changed drastically during the Victorian Period."
(http://www.online-literature.com/periods/victorian.php) -
Annotate
In the Victoian period poety was still very popular. Poets had changed their abstractions and metaphysical tropes of the Romantics and fashioned a more down-to-earth, realistic kind of verse.Their influenced with the natural world and the imagination distinguished the poets was supplanted during this Period by a clear-headed, almost utilitarian kind of poetics.
(http://www.online-literature.com/periods/victorian.php) -
Key Historical Events
Many authors focused their writing of the destruction after WWI, including T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land".
(http://www.enotes.com/homework-help/what-significant-historical-human-events-may-have-445697) -
Three Major Authors
-The Dance of Death by W.H Auden (1933)
-Redimiculum Matellanm by Basil Bunting (1935)
-Requiem by Ama Akhmatova (1935) -
Key Historical Events
This time period was not really considered a movement as more of move of numerous group of writers following the tradegy of WWI. -
Contemperay
through present days -
Period: to
Contemperary
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Post-Modern
through the 20 century -
Period: to
Post-modern
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Three Major Authors
-Lolita by Vladimir Vladimorovich (1955)
-Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs (1959)
-White Noise by Don DeLillo (1985) -
Key Historical Events
"Postmodernism's advocates started to appear as the worldwide socialist movement began to falter, and evidence for socialism's inevitable failure began to accumulate in the USSR, China, and elsewhere" -
Key Historical Events
"In 1984, literary theorist Fredric Jameson wrote his essay Postmodernism, or the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism, arguing that art had been colonised by commerce."
(http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2011/sep/20/postmodernism-10-key-moments) -
Three Major authors
-The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace (1987)
-In the Lake of the Woods (1994)
-Lullably by Chuck Palahnuk (2002) -
Annotate
The Modernism period had a particular genre of speific artistic and philospphical movements including symbolism, futurism, surrealism, expressionalism, and imagism. Most novels were written during the crisi of WWI which impacted many authors and poets during this time.
(faculty.enlv.edu) -
Annotate
Post-Modern Literature has been a cultural scene since the 1960's. Its era's genre can be approached as an attitude that is reactionary, especially towards the ideas and ideals perpetuated in the modernist movement. It creates a meaning from their ironic or critical use of works from the past.
(http://angelmatos.net/2014/02/03/what-is-postmodern-literature/) -
Annotate
Contemporary literature is not easy to characterize because it reflects contemporary life and culture.It descirbed political, social, and personal disillusionment, and no longer creates anything new.
(http://www.cod.edu/people/faculty/bobtam/website/an_very_brief_overview_of_contem.htm) -
Key Historical Events
This list follows the top imporatnt contemporary authors of todays genration.
-Margret Atwood knows for her feminist novels todays period. (2005)
-Jonathan Frazen is the winner of the nation book award for his novel The corrections. -
Old English (Anglo Saxon)
through Dec 1066 -
Key Historical Events
-Egbert of Wessex incorporates Cornwell into his Kingodom and is recognized as overload of the seven kingdoms of the Angels and Saxons
(thehistroyofenglish.com) -
Period: to Dec 1, 1066
Old English
