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Term that comes from 2 Anglo-Saxon tribes, who along with the Jules invaded and conquered England.
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In this period there was a great transition in language, culture and lifestyle, which is recognized as modern English, the writings in Middle English were of a religious nature, and from 1350 secular literature emerged.
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This period is divided into 4 parts; the Elizabethan period (1558-1603) the golden age, the Jacobean period (1603-1625) covers the reign of James I, the Caroline period (1625-1649) covers the reign of Charles I, and the Commonwealth period (1649-1660) was named after the period between the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy.
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This period is subdivided into epochs; the Restoration (1660-1700) was a response to the Puritan era (theater, comedy of manners and satire), the Age of Augustus (1700-1745) was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift who imitated the early Augustans, establishing parallels between them. and the Age of Sensibility (1745-1785) formed ideas such as neoclassicism, critical, literary mode and enlightenment that were defended in this era.
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The date of the beginning of this period is very disputed, some say it was in 1785 (after the age of sentience), others in 1789 (beginning of the french revolution) and others in 1798 (with the publication of the book baldads liricas). what is clear is that it ends with the approval of the law of the reform.
There is a minor period between (1786-1800) called the gothic era, where Matthew Lewis and Anne Radcliffe stand out. -
It is called the reign of queen victoria (1837), and lasted until her death (1901), a time of social, religious, intellectual, and economic questions. it is divided into early (1832-1448), middle (1848-180) and late (1870 - 1901) or in 2 phases pre-Raphaelite (1848-1860) and aestheticism-decadentism (1880-1901).
this period competes with romanticism for being the most popular, influential and prolific of all the english literature. -
It is named after King Edward VII and covers the period between the death of Victoria (1901) and the outbreak of the First World War (1914), a short period in which Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling stood out.
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The Georgian period refers to the period of George V (1910-1936), but sometimes includes the reigns of the 4 georges (1714 - 1830) where poets such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, WH and Rupert Booke are the most representative, the Current poetry is often regarded as the work of minor poets, the themes were likely to be rural or pastoral in nature.
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The modern period applies to works written after the beginning of the First World War, their characteristic bold themes, style and form, encompassing narrative, verse and drama.
The criticism appeared led by oolf, Eliot Willian, among others, revitalizing literary criticism in general. -
The postmodern period begins at the time that the Second World War ends, others say that it ended in 1990, what if defined is that post-structuralist literary theory and criticism develops in this period, some prominent writers of the time are: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller among others, it should be noted that many postmodern authors wrote during the modern period.