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The first works in English, written in Old English, appeared in the early Middle Ages,period Anglo-Saxon is the language that was spoken in the south of the United Kingdom, from the 5th to the 12th century AD. C.
Authors and topics.
- Beowulf.
- The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
- The poem Cædmon’s Hymn.
These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiography, sermons, Bible translations, legal works, chronicles, riddles, and others. -
The Middle English period are not easy to define, and scholarly opinions vary. The dates that has settled on are 1150-1500 period sees a great transition in the language, culture and way of life of England and results in what we can recognize today as a form of "modern" English.This period is home to such authors as.
-Geoffrey Chaucer
-The Gawain Poet
-Margery Kempe
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The "Early Modern Age" period, It is characterized by the adoption of a Humanist philosophy and the recovery of the classical literature of Antiquity and benefited from the spread of printing in the latter part of the 15th century.Some of its authors are
- William Shakespeare
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Nicholas Machiavelli
- Miguel de Cervantes
- Dante Alighieri
- John Donne
- Edmund Spenser
- Giovanni Boccaccio -
The neoclassical period is also subdivided into ages, which include The Restoration (1660-1700), The Age of Augustus (1700-1745), and The Age of Sensitivity (1745-1785). Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks.Of the most famous Neoclassical writers, who included John Dryden, Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, and Samuel Johnson. -
The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.Prominent Romantic writers include John Keats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley. -
Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is widely considered to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels.[1] It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.Some of its authors are.
-Samuel Butler
-Arthur Hugh Clough
-Wilkie Collins
-A. E. Housman
-William Henry Giles Kingston
-Letitia Elizabeth Landon
-Mary Louisa Molesworth -
The beginning of the Edwardian era (1901-1914) marked the end of the longest reign to in British history to that date: that of Queen Victoria. With the advent of a new monarch and a new century, Edwardian writers created protagonists who looked introspectively, and thought critically about the moralism and technological advances of the previous era.Some of the authors are E.M. Forster, Joseph Conrad, and H.G. Wells,Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. -
Georgian poetry today is typically considered to be the works of minor poets anthologized by Edward Marsh. The themes and subject matter tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and traditionally rather than with passion (like was found in the previous periods) or with experimentation.Some of the authors are.
- Jane Austen
- Percy Shelley
- Mary Shelley
- John Keats
- Lord Byron -
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, originated in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing.Some of the authors are.
- Franz Kafka
- D. H. Lawrence
- Virginia Woolf
- T.S. Eliot
- Gertrude Stein
- Joseph Conrad
- Samuel Beckett
- William Carlos Williams
- W.B. Yeats -
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues also represents a break from the 19th century realism.Some of the authors are.
- Roland Barthes
- Jean Baudrillard
- Jacques Derrida
- Jorge Luis Borges