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Also known as Anglo-Saxon literature, it begins with the invasion of Celtic England by the Germanic tribes, beginning in the year 450 to 1066 (conquest of England by French William). Important works include genres such as: hagiography, epic poetry, Caedmon and Cynewulf, a great example is (the anonymous epic beowulf). -
In this middle period, a great transition is observed in the English language, culture and also the lifestyles of England, this period goes from the year 1066 to the year 1500. We can mention some forgiveness of this period Chaucer, Thomas Malory and Robert Henryson. -
in this period England was going through an artistic and cultural movement, and this is divided into 3 periods.
- Elizabethan era: considered the apogee of the English language (second half of the 20th century).
- It was Jacobean
- Carolino period -
The restoration period was considered a great time of dramaturgy by some works influenced by French neoclassism.
Some writings from this time are Aphra Behn, John Bunyan, and John Locke. -
This was divided into two periods: Augustan literature (time of: Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, they drew parallels with the first set of Augustans) and the age of sensibility (Ideas such as neoclassicism, a critical and literary mode, and the Illustration, The Poets: William Cowper and Thomas Percy.). -
It begins in 1798 and ends in the coronation of Queen VICTORIA in 1837. Its movement was in literature, art and music, it refers to a fiction of free imagination, taking into account the emotion and value of the rules. Includes works by:
- Wordsworth, Coleridge, Mary Wollstonecraft, William Blake, Lord, Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb. -
It was the most powerful nation, there were great religious, social and economic changes. Some poems of this time are: Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti and Robert and Elizabeth. This era is divided into 3 stages:
- Early Victorianism: (1837-1851), Queen Victoria ascends the throne.
- Middle Victorianism. (1851-1873), great internal stability thanks to the industrial revolution.
- Late Victorianism. (1873-1901), social protests that end with the death of the queen. -
This period goes from Year 101 to Year 1940 and I reject romanticism, what made them react to the values was the First World War, and new literary genres also emerged such as (free verse, poetry, epiphanies and novels), there are concerns about the complexity of the postwar period. -
This period goes from the end of the Second World War, it is a very important literary movement of the first part of the 20th century, in the middle of this century very important writers appear (Anthony Burgess, Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, John Fowles, among others.) -
This period refers to all the literature of the XXI century, this literature is used to discuss economic, religious and xociopolitical issues, it is characterized by important events such as industrial revolutions, scientific and technological advances.