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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
Anglo-Saxon period, wich is alliterative rather than rhyming. It's known for its use of the kenning, a compressed metaphor. (Shandi Stevenson) -
658
Caedmon's Hymn by Caedmon
One of the oldest poem written in English. Short hymn in praise of God.
(https://www.poemhunter.com/poem/caedmon-s-hymn/)
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800
Beowulf
The first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons. (Oxford Reference)
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Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
It's a period, wich people is reforming and developing the English language. It's the begining of the English and there was an Oral quality, where people memorize their poems and teach them generation through generation.
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1340
Ockham's Razor
A principle from philosophy, which suggest there are two explanations for a situation. (Wikipedia).
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1385
Troilus and Criseyde, Geoffrey Chaucer
It tells a dramatic love story. Picture taken from https://chaucerianmyth.bandcamp.com/album/troilus-and-criseyde -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
It's the change from faith and heroes literature to a cognitive human level.
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Hamlet, William Shakespeare
It's a play that dramatises the revenge of Prince Hamlet for his father's death. It's considered the longest Shakespeare play and it have had influenced other writers. -
The Masque of Blackness, Ben Jonson
The first Jonson's Masque for the court of James I. (Oxford Reference).
It was played by King James I's wife and her ladies of court, making up in black color.
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The Compleat Angler, Izaak Walton
It is a celebration of the art and spirit of fishing in prose and verse. (Wikipedia)
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Period: to
Puritan Literature
Literature written by Puritans in America. It relied on a first-person narrative, coming in a form of journalists, diaries and day-to-da expiriences. -
Period: to
Restoration Age
The restoration poetry was most satirical, realistic and written in heroic couplet; of which Dryden was the supreme master. He was a dominating figure of the Restoration Age. He wrote poetries, prose and also dramas. For this reason, Restoration Age is also called the “Age of Dryden”. (Englishsummary) -
Mac Flecknoe, John Dryden
Satirical work, was a lampoon circulated in manuscript and an attack on the playwright Thomas Shadwell. (Wikipedia, 2018)
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Period: to
18th Century
The important trends were the growth of the essay and the satire and the earliest examples of the novel, a long prose narrative with realistic setting and three-dimensional characters. (Shandi Stevenson) -
Robinson Crusoe, Daniel Defoe
It was considered the first English novel. It's about the adventures of an english shipwrecked.
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Period: to
Romanticism
Period in which the individual feelings play a principal role in an imaginative form. -
Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
Gothic novel with elements from science fiction.
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Period: to
Victorian Literature
It is the body of poetry, fiction, essays, and letters produced during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) and during the era which bears her name. It forms a link and transition between the writers of the romantic period and the modernist literature of the twentieth century. (New World Encyclopedia, 2016) -
David Copperfield, Charles Dickens
The novel features the character David Copperfield, and is written in the first person, as a description of his life until middle age, with his own adventures and the numerous friends and enemies he meets along his way. It is his journey from being an impoverished, neglected child to a successful author. (Wikipedia, 2018)
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Period: to
Modern Literature
The Modernists introduced important stylistic innovations such as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories driven more by psychology than by external plot. (Shandi Stevenson) -
The Waste Land, T. S. Elliot
The poem shifts between voices of satire and prophecy featuring abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location, and time and conjuring a vast and dissonant range of cultures and literatures. (Wikipedia, 2018)
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Period: to
Post Modern
It's characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era. (Wikipedia, 2018) -
Billy Liar, Keith Waterhouse
The semi-comical story is about William Fisher, a working-class 19-year-old living with his parents in the fictional town of Stradhoughton in Yorkshire. Bored by his job as a lowly clerk for an undertaker, Billy spends his time indulging in fantasies and dreams of life in the big city as a comedy writer. (Wikipedia, 2018)
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