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OLD ENGLISH PERIOD
It was the period of "Epic Poetry" began as an Oral art and telling tales of wild battles and heroic journeys. The poetry is alliterative, rather than rhyming, and is known for its use of the kenning, a compressed metaphor such as whale-road or night-stalker. -
Period: 450 to 1066
Old English Period
It was the period of "Epic Poetry" began as an Oral art and telling tales of wild battles and heroic journeys. The poetry is alliterative, rather than rhyming, and is known for its use of the kenning, a compressed metaphor such as whale-road or night-stalker. -
731
"The Venerable Bede"
In his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of English church and people. -
800
"Beowulf"
The most popular is epic poem. Great work of Germany literatura. -
1066
MIDDLE ENGLISH
Medieval romances, such as the tales of King Arthur, were popular. The most surprising thing about these early British works is their graphic content and crude sexual content. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
Medieval romances, such as the tales of King Arthur, were popular. The most surprising thing about these early British works is their graphic content and crude sexual content. -
1367
"The Canterbury Tales"
"The Canterbury Tales," which helped English to gain credibility as a literary language in a culture where educated people wrote mainly in Latin. Written by Geoffrey Chaucer, the "Tales" is another series of stories told by different narrators that offers a snapshot of late medieval cultural diversity. -
1375
"The tales of King Arthur"
They were written by diferent authors. -
1500
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
This "golden age represented the apogee of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of poetry, music and literature. The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
This "golden age represented the apogee of the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of poetry, music and literature. The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of theatre. -
1558
Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
It is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth
William Shakespeare's plays and poems figure prominently in any English literature course.
John Donne, famous for his "Holy Sonnets," including the line, "Death, be not proud," and John Milton, the blind poet who wrote the allegorical epic "Paradise Lost." -
1567
"The Bible"
The Book of Common Prayer and the New Testament are published in Welsh, to be followed by the complete Bible in 1588 -
Jacobean (1603-1625)
The Jacobean era refers to the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland In literature, some of Shakespeare's most prominent plays, including King Lear (1605), Macbeth (1606), and The Tempest (1610), were written during the reign of James I. Also the works by John Webster, Thomas Middleton, John Ford and Ben Jonson. -
PURITAN (1653-1660)
Authors of this era were deeply religious and wrote in such a way God can be more easy to understand for every one. It rose in New England in the United States. It realied in a first person narrative (me,myself and I), auothor aproach with a personal point of you, throungh writing diaries, journals and personal experiences. -
Carolina (1653-1660)
This period has often been regarded as a diminished continuation of the trends of the previous two reigns -
Period: to
Puritan
Authors of this era were deeply religious and wrote in such a way God can be more easy to understand for every one. It rose in New England in the United States. It realied in a first person narrative (me,myself and I), auothor aproach with a personal point of you, throungh writing diaries, journals and personal experiences. -
"Heroique Stanzas"
It was the eulogy for the Lord protector of England, Oliver Cromwell. I was written by John Dryden , he was a highly influential English poet. -
RESTAURATION AGE
King Charles II restored the monarchy -
Samuel Pepys an English Diarist and naval administrator
On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his dairy. -
Period: to
Restauration Age
King Charles II restored the monarchy -
"Paradise Lost"
It was publish by his Author John Milton. -
18th CENTURY
The important trends of the 18th century were the growth of the essay and the satire and the earliest examples of the novel, a long prose narrative with realistic setting and three-dimensional characters. It was the beginning of the Age of Enlightenment. -
Augustan (1700- 1750)
The artists of the period were inspired by Latin Authors.
Some Authors are OIvid, Horace, Virgil. -
Period: to
18th Century
The important trends of the 18th century were the growth of the essay and the satire and the earliest examples of the novel, a long prose narrative with realistic setting and three-dimensional characters. -
Age of Sensibility (1750-1798)
It was a fashion in both poetry and prose fiction which began in the 18th century in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age. -
Samuel Jonhson (1709-1784)
He did contributions as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer. -
ROMANTICIMS
The poetry and romantic novel arose, It was a a nature and emotions expression. It was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century. The Industrial revolution had a huge impact on this era. -
Period: to
Romanticims
The poetry and romantic novel arose, It was a a nature and emotions expression. It was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century -
William Blake (1757-1827)
He was and English poet, painter, printmaker.
* Songs of Innocence and Experience
*The Marriage of heaven and hell
*The four Zoas
*Jerusalem -
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770-1831)
He was a German philosopher and an important figure of German idealism. Hegel's principal achievement was his development of a distinctive articulation of idealism, sometimes termed absolute idealism. His philosophy of spirit conceptually integrates psychology, the state, history, art, religion and philosophy.
*Absolute Idealims
*Hegeliam Dialectic -
Grimms´ Fairy Tales Published 1812
It was originally known as the Children's and Household Tales. The first edition contained 86 stories, and by the seventh edition in 1857, had 211 unique fairy tales. -
VICTORIAN
It was the period of Queen Victoria´s reign. In prose, the novel rose from a position of relative neglect during the 1830s to become the leading literary genre by the end of the era. The social novel responded to the social, political and economic upheaval associated with industrialisation. It was a resurgence of Gothic Fiction. -
Period: to
Victorian
It was the period of Queen Victoria´s reign. In prose, the novel rose from a position of relative neglect during the 1830s to become the leading literary genre by the end of the era. The social novel responded to the social, political and economic upheaval associated with industrialisation. It was a resurgence of Gothic Fiction. -
"Oliver Twist"
It was write by Charles Dickens an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era -
"Les Miserables"
It is a French historical novel by Victor Hugo, first published in 1862, that is considered one of the greatest novels of the 19th century. -
"The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde."
It is a gothic novella by Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson, first published in 1886. -
"The Picture of Dorian Gray"
Oscar Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. -
MODERN LITERATURE
The Modernists introduced important stylistic innovations such as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories driven more by psychology than by external plot.Modernist English literature includes the works of William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
Period: to
Modern Literature
The Modernists introduced important stylistic innovations such as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories driven more by psychology than by external plot.Modernist English literature includes the works of William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
"Feminist Manifesto"
The manifesto begins with a direct call on women. It was writen by Mina Loy. -
POST MODERNS
The Modernists were concerned with the uncertainty and complexity of the postwar world, and were heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's ideas about sexuality and the unconscious. -
Period: to
Post Modern
The Modernists were concerned with the uncertainty and complexity of the postwar world, and were heavily influenced by Sigmund Freud's ideas about sexuality and the unconscious. -
Theatre of the Absurd
The Theatre of the Absurd (French: théâtre de l'absurde [teɑtʁ(ə) də lapsyʁd]) is a post–World War II designation for particular plays of absurdist fiction written by a number of primarily European playwrights in the late 1950s, as well as one for the style of theatre which has evolved from their work. Their work focused largely on the idea of existentialism and expressed what happens when human existence has no meaning or purpose and therefore all communication breaks down. -
Muriel Spark. "It is impossible to persuade a man who does not disagree, but smiles"
She was a Scottish novelist, short story writer, poet and essayist. The wrote The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. -
"The Golden Notebook"
Writen by Doris Lessing. She was awarded the 2007 Nobel Prize in Literature. She received several awards as the "Premio Principe de Asturias" in 2001. -
CONTEMPORARY
The writers are looking for trends that illuminate societal strengths and weaknesses to remind society of lessons they should learn and questions they should ask. So when we think of contemporary literature, we cannot simply look at a few themes or settings. Since society changes over time, so do the content and messages of this writing. -
Period: to
Contemporary
The writers are looking for trends that illuminate societal strengths and weaknesses to remind society of lessons they should learn and questions they should ask. So when we think of contemporary literature, we cannot simply look at a few themes or settings. Since society changes over time, so do the content and messages of this writing.
