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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English (Anglo saxon)
Caedmon's Hymn
Early writings were poems Lower average age
Beowoulf (Anonymous author )
It is the oldest document written in the Anglo-Saxon language. -
Period: 1500 to
The Middle English
The King Arthur tales
These are written through oral histories. Godfrey of Monmouth
A chronological account of the lives of the British kings. Geoffrey Chaucer
Write the Canterbury Tales Main authors.
Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)
Francesco Petrarca (1304-1374)
Giovanni Boccaccio (1313-1375)
Chrétrien de Troyes (1130-1183)
Geoffrey Chaucer (1387-1400)
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Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
It's a period in which there were too many diseases and also wars for power and territory, this was the subject of inspiration for the writings, it is also said that Any person who did not agree with what religions or kings professed or published was executed.
Edmund Spenser: (The Faerie Queene)
WIlliam Shakespeare: Some of his famous works were Romeo and Juliet, Othello Hamlet
Francis Bacon: Pioneer of English prose
Thomas Dekker: Write to Caesar´s Fall -
Period: to
The Neoclassical
In this period they talk of the hierarchies of the powers in the world, highlights that Greece and Rome are one of the most influential cultures for the creation and organization of cities, in addition, the drama regains strength at this time.
Voltaire, Cándido o el optimismo, 1709.
Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe, 1719.
Jonathan Swift, Los viajes de Gulliver, 1726.
Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos, El delincuente honrado,1774. -
Period: to
The Romantic Period
The Romantic period where the sensitivity of the human being was taken up again, there were more humanistic and romantic writings transmitting many feelings in depth.
Lord Byron.
Shelley
Keats. -
Period: to
The Victorian Period
It talks about the invention of many technologies thanks to the industrial revolution, it should be noted that it was a period in which the participation of women writers stands out.
Lewis Carrol.
Rudyard Kipling.
William Makepeace Thackeray.
Anthony Trollope. -
Period: to
The Edwardian Period and The Georgian Periods
These two periods were encompassed in historical processes of wars because throughout these the First World War was unleashed and also events such as revolutionary movements and others such as Cubism, Expressionism, Futurism, among others. Metaphors and symbolism were used a lot in the writings. Women unleashed in the upper classes. -
Period: to
The Modern Period
This tells us about lost generations, theories of psycho-analysis, irrational philosophy and other topics such as the feeling of loneliness, the absurd, among others that describe the feelings of today's society.
Ezra Pound
Wallace Stevens
T.S. Eliot
William Carlos Williams.