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• Begins with the invasion of Britain
• The second name is The Anglo-Saxon
• It was a flexible language with a liberty in its syntax.
• the major event during the Old English period were the introduction of Christianity by the Romans.
• The language that the book Beowulf is written in is an example of Old English. -
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• There came changes in pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar
• The religion was an important element of social life in medieval ages
• the people of that age listen the stories instead of reading because no printing facility was available in those days.
• The principal literary work was The Canterbury Tales of Geoffrey Chaucer -
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• The principal character is that appear the humanism with emphasis in dignity
• Romeo and Juliet is one of seven plays Shakespeare set in Renaissance Italy, a setting he used to present a freer society than Elizabethan England. -
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• Neoclassical literature is characterized by order, accuracy, and structure.
• This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson.
• The principal book was Ben Jonson's Volpone, 1607 -
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• It such trends were a new appreciation of the medieval romance, from which the Romantic movement derives its name.
• Romanticism in English literature began in the 1790s with the publication of the Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. -
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• Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria
• The Victorian era was the great age of the English novel—realistic, thickly plotted, crowded with characters, and long. It was the ideal form to describe contemporary life and to entertain the middle class
• The novels of Charles Dickens was the principal writer one book was Oliver Twist. -
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• the individual is more interesting than society. Specifically, modernist writers were fascinated with how the individual adapted to the changing world.
• Ernest Hemingway is especially remembered for vivid characters who accepted their circumstances at face value and persevered
• Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness is a example of modernist -
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ontemporary literature is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day.
• Works of contemporary literature reflect a society’s social and/or political viewpoints, shown through realistic characters, connections to current events and socioeconomic messages.
• Life of Pi (Paperback) is one example of this period and my favorite
