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*Also known as Anglo-Saxon from Germanic tribes.
*Prevail oral tradition.
*Prose generally came from translations of legal, medical or religious works.
*Remarkable works:
(731) - The Venerable Bede
(975-1025) - Epic poem Beowulf, first great work of Germanic literature, originally a spoken poem passed through generations of Anglo-Saxons.
(959) The material of the Eddas
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*Transition period of language and culture between early and modern English.
-1350 - Beginnings of Secular Literature
*Remarkable works:
-1367 - Langland begins the epic poem of Piers Plowman.
-1387- Chaucer begins 100 Cantebury tales, but only complete 24. Which reflect late medieval cultural diversity.
-1469 - Thomas Malory compiles Morte d´Arthur (tales of King Arthur) -
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*Named for King Edward VII. Short period.
*Between Victoria’s death andt he outbreak of World War I.
*Classic novelist: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling,H.G. Wells, and Henry James.
*Poets: Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats.
*Dramatists: James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy.
*Remarkable works:
-1901 - The Tale of Peter Rabbit - Beatrix Potter
-1908 - Novel Anne of Green Gables - Lucy Maud Montgomery.
-1910 - Novel The History of Mr Polly, Wells -
*Reign of George V (1910-1936)
*Georgian poets: Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke
*Georgian poetry: Edward Marsh
*Topic: Rural or pastoral
*Remarkable works:
-1915 - Rupert Brooke´s 1914 and Other Poems
-1925 - Novel Mrs Dalloway of Virginia Woolf
-1928 - My life and loves of Frank Harris (Irish) -
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*Begins about the World War II ended.
*Postsrtructuralist literary theory and Criticism
*Writers: Samuel Beckett , Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks
-1950-Narnia in the Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe- C.S Lewis
-1979-US author, MAya Angelou, publishes novel I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings.
-1997-Harry Potter -
2000-Present
-2010-Mockingjay completes trilogy The Hunger Games
-2013-present - Cormoran Strike - fiction novel - J.K. Rowling