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Period: 975 BCE to 1025 BCE
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Beowulf -
731 BCE
The Venerable Bede
Ecclesiastical History of the English People.
Revelation to John.
De temporibus. -
Period: 450 BCE to 1066
THE OLD ENGLISH PERIOD
The period started from the coming of Germanic invaders and settlers to Britain.The literature was about the rol of women, dragons, treasures and poems were rhythmic. -
959
Snorri Sturluson
The Prose Eddas.- The Heimskringla. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD
The period of the transition in English language and its literature was religious -
1367
William Langland
Piers Plowman -
1387
Geoffrey Chaucer
The canterbury Tales.
Troilus and Criseyde.
The Parlement of foules. -
1469
Thomas Malory
Mort d'Arthur.
The Colophon. -
Period: 1500 to
THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD
The period of transition from the middle ages to modernity also known as "the break from the past". The literature was about "man is the measure of all things", it means take the cognitive level of the human mind to new heights. -
1510
Erasmus of Rotterdam
The crowning glory of the christian humanists.
Praise of folly.
The complaint of peace. -
Edmund Spenser
The Faerie Queene.
Rhyme and reason.
The shepheardes Calender -
William Shakespeare
Hamlet.
Two gentlemen of verona.
The sonnets. -
Period: to
THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD
The period of conscious self-awareness, the literature was rationalism. -
John Milton
Paradise Lost.
Lycidas.
Samson Agonistes. -
Jonathan Swift
Gulliver's Travels.
A tale of a tub.
A modest proposal -
Samuel Johnson
Dictionary of the English Language.
The false alarm.
The patriot. -
Period: to
THE ROMANTIC PERIOD
The period where the emotions and individualism took control or as we know as Gothic Era, it saw the emergence of the professional literary critic and it tried to focus on visual spectacle.
the literature was about human psychology, isolation and loneliness. -
Mary Wollstonecraft
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman.
Maria; or, The Wrongs of Woman.
Letter written during a short residence in Sweden, Norway, and Denmark. -
Edgar Allan Poe
To Hellen
The Raven
Annabel Lee -
Jane Austen
Pride and prejudice.
Emma
Sense and Sensibility -
William Blake
The ancient days
Newton
The lovers whirlwind -
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The last leaf.
Contentment
The living temple -
Charless Dickens
A christmas Carol.
Bleak house.
Little Dorrit -
Period: to
THE VICTORIAN PERIOD
The period of political reforms and social changes and its literature was about strong sense of morality. -
Bram Stoker
The Mystery of the sea
The Jewel of seven stars
The quality of Dracula -
H.G Wells
The time machine.
The war of the worlds.
The invisible man -
Frank Baum
The wonderful wizard of Oz.
American Fairy Tales.
The life and adventures of Santa Claus -
Beatrix Potter
The tale of Peter Rabbit.
The tailor of gloucester.
The story of a fierce bad rabbit -
Period: to
THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD
The period of the reign of king Edward VII, the literature was about fiction. -
Lucy Maud Montgomery
Anne of Green Gables.
Part of silver bush.
The blue castle -
H.G Wells
The history of Mr polly.
The sleeper awakes.
The shape of things to come -
Period: to
THE GEORGIAN PERIOD
The period of the reign of George V, the literature was about nature, familiar objects and common experience. -
Rupert Chawner Brooke
The soldier.
The great lover.
The dead -
Virginia Woolf
Mrs Dalloway.
To the lighthouse.
A room of one's own -
Frank Harris
My life and loves.
Contemporary portraits.
The bomb -
Margaret Mitchell
Gone with the win.
The big four.
Lost Laysen -
Period: to
THE MODERN PERIOD
This period is known as a "self- conscious break" and the authors used "stream of consciousness" style in their poems and writings. -
Ernest Hemingway
For whom the bell tolls.
The old man and the sea.
The sun also rises -
George Orwell
Animal farm.
Nineteen eighty-four.
Politics and the English language (essay) -
C.S Lewis
The lion, The witch and The wardrobe.
A grief observed.
The Screwtape lettres -
Period: to
THE POSTMODERN PERIOD
The period where everyone was focus on the rol of ideology in economic power and its literature was based on metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity and intertextuality. -
Maya Angelou
I know why the caged bird sings.
The heart of a woman.
On the pulse of morning -
Period: to
THE CONTEMPORARY PERIOD
This period is known as late modern period and its literature is about emotions, feelings, societies, injustice and discrimination. -
Suzanne Collins
The Hunger Games.
When Charlie McBotton lost power.
The underland Chronicles -
Period: to
J.K. Rowling
Harry Potter.
Cormoran Strike.
The casual Vacancy
