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Known as Old English (Anglo-Saxon) period, the oral literature was predominant in this epoch and the most significative work was Beowulf and remarkable poets were Caedmon and Cynewulf.
During this time, the relevant topics for make prose were religion, medical or nature although, Beowulf was an adventure tale where the imagination, heroism and warriors are principal. -
During this period were remarkable the religious works, however around 1350 the 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"
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This period had notable changes because it is divided into four parts:
1.The Elizabethan age (1558 – 1603)
2.The Jacobean age (1603-1625)
3.The Caroline age (1625-1649)
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Was recognized as the english drama epoch and counted with authors like Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Christopher Marlowe and William Shakespeare.
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This epoch is also subdivided into three periods
1.The Restoration (1660–1700)
2. The Augustan Age (1700–1745)
3.The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785) -
This period includes works of Michael Drayton, John Donne, Elizabeth Cary and Lady Mary Wroth.
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Shakespeare dies
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This period included methapysical and puritan works of literature, the environment in this epoch was centered in religious, political and social aspects, some authors of this epoch were George Herbert and Robert Burton
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Received this name by the crucial political events like civil war and political changes, in fact, the political topics predominated in this epoch and relevant authors were Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley and John Milton.
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The Restoration of the Stuart Monarchy (Political event of England, Ireland and Scotland)
*Public theaters were closed
*John Milton and Thomas Hobbes political writtings appeared -
Was an important epoch for theater because included more libertine spirit and ideas about new social style came into play, authors like Aphra Behn, John Bunyan and John Locke were notables.
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Samuel Butler was a famous satirist poet of the Restoration period.
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William Congreve was a famous playwright and poet of the Restoration period.
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This period was featured by multiple changes as a phenomenon in literature because political satire, drama and melodrama quickly evolved, being more stylised and conscious.
Poets like Lady Mary Wortley and Daniel Defoe were popular -
Characters like Edward Gibbon, Edmund Burke, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson were remarkables in this period, Also novelists like Henry Fielding and Laurence Sterne were importants in this epoch, and poets like William Cowper and Thomas Percy
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This period was emphasized on emotion and individualism, also this period is recognized by the industrial revolution and evolution of visual arts, music and education, being more liberalism and appreciating the beauty of nature.
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This period coincides with the years that queen Victoria ruled Great Britain. Also, this period is divided into three phases:
"Early" (1832 -1848)
"Mid" (1848 - 1870)
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As the middle class expanded and more people became literate, the popularity of the novel exploded. These works also became more accessible as a result of the Industrial Revolution and the expansion of newspapers and the periodical press.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.
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The novels about heroes and heroines was very popular in this period. Also, Realism emerged in literature predominatly 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.
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The most relevant auhors of this period were Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Samuel Butler.
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Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford and Rudyard Kipling were the most famous novelists, Alfred Noyes and Willia Butler Yeats were the most remarkable poets of this period, finally, James Berrie and George Bernard were notable dramatists.
After Victoria queen died, her son Edward VII was on the throne, this epoch was different because had lax standard in its code of conduct thanks to the contributions of inventions like phones, cars and electricity -
This period refers that is named for the reign of George V.
Gulliver’s Travels by Jonathan Swift and Robinson Crusoe made a landmark during this epoch due to it going away from the traditional form of literature. They were long prose and were also satirical in nature. -
Metafiction, fragmented poetry was fashionable in this period, some of the authors of this epoch were Calvino, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Pynchon, John Fowles, Anthony Burguess
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