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Homer was the poet of ancient Greece, books read from the Iliad and Odyssey era
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The Germanic tribes of Europe that invaded England in the 5th century, after the Roman defeat, brought with them the old English or Anglo-Saxon language, which constitutes the basis of modern English, here is the composition of melancholy, sad and sad sung poetry soft, the literature of this era is preserved by the monasteries thanks to the copyists.
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Todas las obras en Europa fueron escritas desde el año 479 d.C. (caída del Imperio Romano de Occidente), hasta el comienzo del renacimiento florentino a fines del siglo XV. Esta literatura está influenciada por cuestiones religiosas.
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It has great influence of French literature and until the fourteenth century, the French language prevailed over English in literary compositions, the past century in the English language returns to take force by the use of the ruling classes. Italian and French elements influence, and different native styles are
Highlights of the time: poem "Piers the Labrador of William Langland" -
Commonly called the years of shakespeare, period between the sixteenth and seventeenth century, was the most prominent author of the time.
the poetry of rebirth
In the sixteenth century the recognized authors are Philip Sidney and Edmund Spenser.
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PILLARS
1. William Shakespeare: the most famous writer of all time
2. Charles Dickens
3. Oscar Wilde
4. George Orwell
5. J.K. Rowling
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It is identified as "Age of Augustus."
The name of Augustus is due to the parallelism between the reign of Charles II and the Roman Emperor Augustus.
The mentality of the time defended the values of the civilized world, which is not surprising, what is not of the time was beginning the expansion of what would later be the British Empire.
One of the key satirical poems of English literature is the violation of the Pope's padlock, written in "heroic simulation" -
It has its name since the coronation of Queen Victoria in 1837, this era had social transformations that immediately determine the writings that occupy urgent issues, although romantic forms of expression continue to dominate English literature for almost the entire century, the attention of many writers are sometimes passionately required to issues such as the development of English democracy, mass education, industrial progress.
At this time "novel" is characterized -
Over the centuries, the different colonizations and invasions that have occurred around the Mediterranean specify the passage to the distribution of the works of these great and other excellent writings that proved to havetheir own writing style, detracting from previous literary manifestations. From England and Spain they spread, enthralling in each newport avid writers. The individual vision of the world began tohave more strength, generating works that have become classics of world literature
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Time after the Second World War, Postmodern works are seen as an answer against the dogmatic follow-up of the Enlightenment thinking and modernist approaches to literature and against the rejection of traditional literature
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Alexander Pope was the most recognized poet of the Protestant era between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, it was he who had just refined and perfected English poetry, printing the constant correction as the main norm. Stresses the trend of poetry to romanticism and the rise of the novel. England is the Cradle of Romanticism, Romanticism began in England almost .
