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Beowulf
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Also called Anglo-Saxon literature, it was written in old English.
Poetry and prose were the mainstream.
Heroic Poetry / Beowulf, Lyric poetry/ Wanderer, Seafarer, Christian poetry, Dream of the road.
Popular Poets / Caedmon, Cynewulf -
The canterbury tales
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Also called the Anglo-Norman period
The mainstream was the religious context.
Writers / Geoffrey Chaucer,
Works/ The canterbury Tales, King Arthur -
William shakespeare -
Also known as the early modern period
The mainstreams were drama and poetry.
Writers / William Shakespeare, Milton Donne, Spencer, Marlowe
Works / Hamlet, the prince, Tamburlaine, the shadow for the night, Romeo and Juliet -
Jhon Milton -
The mainstreams were Religious sermons, Historical narratives, personal journals, and poetry.
Writers / Jhon Milton, Jhon Bunyan, Robert Burton, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Fuller.
Works / Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained, The pilgrim’s Progress -
Comedy of manners -
The mainstreams were Comedy of manner, Satire, Heroic Couplet, and Poetry.
Writers/ Jhon Dryden, John Milton.
Works/ Marriage a-la- mode, The country wife, The rover -
18th Century -
The mainstreams were Rationalism, intellect, logic, and wit
Writers/ Behn Aphra, Burney Frances, Burns Robert, Defoe Daniel, Eliza Haywood, Samuel Richardson
Works/ Virtue Rewarded, Clarissa, The history of Tom jones -
Romanticism -
It is a literary movement that emphasized individualism and emotions.
Writers/ William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor, William Blake, Jane Austen.
Works Pride and Prejudice, The Kubla Khan, Ozymandias, and Daffodils -
Victorian
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Considered the golden age of English literature, the novel became the leading literary genre.
Writers/ Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, George Eliot, Thomas Hardly.
Works/ Jane Eyre, Great expectations, Dracula, The Picture of Dorian Great, Vanity fair -
Virginia Woolf -
The mainstreams are fiction of alienation, transformation, consumption, and the relative of truth.
Writers/ W.B Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, Virginia Woolf, T.S Eliot, Ezra Pound.
Works/ earth of Darkness, Mrs. Dalloway, The Waste Land -
The mainstreams are metafiction, unreliable narration, and Self-reflexivity.
Writers/ Thomas Pynchon, Kurt Vonnegut, Joseph Heller
Works/ Gravity’s Rainbow, Slaughterhouse-five, Catch-22 -
Gravity’s Rainbow -
Currently happening
Writers/ Donna Tartt, Hanya Yanagihar, Ann Patchett, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Arundhati Ro, Zadie Smit, Kazuo Ishiguro. Works/ the secret history, The People in the Trees, The Patron Saint of Liars
