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This Age started in the fifth century when the Jutes, Angles and Saxons came to England from Germany, defeated the English tribes and started their reign. It ended in 1066 with the Norman Conquest.
- Prose: traslation of legal, medical, or religius text
- Use of dialects: Northumbrian Kentish West Saxon, Mercian (dialects divided by zones)
- Oral traditon
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Continuity between Old and Middle English is mainly to be seen in texts of a religious, political or administrative character, thousands of which have survived. Most of the surviving material is religious in character – about a third are collections of homilies (a type of sermon).
- Cultural life was influence by the church
- Anonymous writers
- Allegorical fable, verse, secular lyrics
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The Renaissance was a period that became the turning point for artistic, social, scientific, and political thought. Many people share the view that a renaissance like this one seemed radiant, optimistic, and forward-looking.
- Faith in the nobility of man-humanism
- A positive willingnessto learn and explore
- It was believed to be the rebirth of ancient Greek and Roman worlds -Comedy, drama skepticisms
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The Neoclassical Period (1660---1798) The eighteenth-century England is also known as the Age of Enlightenment or the Age of Reason. The Enlightenment Movement was a progressive intellectual movement which flourished In France and swept through the whole Western Europe at the time.
- Is characterized by order, accuracy ans structure (control)
- Inspired from the clasical art and culture of ancient Greece and Rome
- Dominance of materialism and empirical science
- Restoration of drama
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In romanticism events such as the American Revolution in 1776, the French Revolution in 1789, and the Industrial Revolution restructured society and the way individuals viewed themselves and their relationship to each other and to the social order.
- Poems, verse, lyrics
- Glorification of nature
- awareness and acceptance of emotions
- Celebration of artistic creativity and imagination
- Emphasis on aesthetic beauty
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The period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 1837 until her death in 1901 was marked by sweeping progress and ingenuity. It was the time of the world's first Industrial Revolution, political reform and social change, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, a railway boom and the first telephone and telegraph.
- Proliferation of women writers
- Novels
- From romanticism to realism, politics to passion, optimism to pessimism
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The Edwardian period is generally considered to have ended at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914. The themes are (like was found in the previous periods) or with experimentation (as would be seen in the upcoming modern period).
- Elegance and luxury among the rich and powerful
- Revolutionary movements: post-impresionism, cubism, expresionism, futurism.
- Constructivism and dadaism movements
- Use of metaphorics symbolisms in writen