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-First long narrative poems: Beowful and widisth.
-Other poems: genesis, exodus, the wandererm wife´s lament, the battle of maldon etc.
-some of the famous writers of old English literatura: Cynewulf and Caedmon -
-Medieval English Literature comprises of a diverse range of Works
-the population of England during this time was literate and a considerable portion was also bilingual and trilingual.
-Christianity and Islam are exacerbated by Europe
Geoffrey Chaucer William Langland.
-During the era of Medival English Literature, the most esteemed works also include morality plays, miracle plays and interludes.
-Poetry: Canterbury Tales, The Book of the Duchess. -
-Also called Golden age
-Sir Thomas Wyatt and Henry Howard (Earl of Surrey) has a massive contribution to this age.
-It was a dynamic age filled with intellectual and religious revolutions and upheavals.
-prominent people: Sir Thomas Hoby, Sir Philip Sidney, Michel Drayton, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Johnson John Milton, John Webster, Thomas Kyd, George Peele and William Shakespeare
-poetry: Tottel's Miscellany, Romeo y Juliet, A Midsummer Night’s Dream and As You Like It -
-Another revolutionary change in the history of English literature was brought forward by the Restoration Age
- literary figures: John Dryden, John Milton, Thomas Gray, William Blake and Robert Burns
- The eminent philosopher of this era was John Locke who wrote many essays like ‘The Essay Concerning Human Understanding’
-Restoration poetry
-Poems: Paradise Lost, Astra Radix, Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained and Samson Agonistes. -
-experimented with the earlier forms of poetry and brought many interesting genres of prose fiction.
-The key feature of the poetry of this period was the emphasis laid on individual thought and personal feeling.
- William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge were the brilliant poetry geniuses of this era
-The Gothic novel is an important invention in prose fiction and some of its prominent writers were Horace Walpole, Matthew Lewis, Ann Radcliffe and Mary Shelley. -
Representative: Thomas hardy and Robert louis
- Writers:Charles dickens, Lewis carroll, Oscar wilde
- Literary works: (1944) the seperate poems forming T.S. Eliot's four Quartets are brought together for the first time as a single volume, publised in new york
- In the history of the United Kingdom, the Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign.
-The death of Queen Victoria in January 1901 marked the end of the Victorian era -
-The Edwardian era (1901-1914) is the last period in British history to be named after the monarch who reigned over it.
-Although Edward VII reigned from 1901 to 1910 to be succeeded by George V, the Edwardian period is generally considered to have ended at the outbreak of the First World War in 1914.
-the era includes incredible classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Henry James -
-The Georgian period usually refers to the reign of George V
-Georgian poets: Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
-La poesía georgiana de hoy se considera típicamente como las obras de poetas menores antologadas por Edward Marsh -
-The modern period traditionally applies to works written after start of World War I
-Most notable writers: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing
-Poets: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas
-The dramatists Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill.
-New Criticism also appeared at this time -
- The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended -La teoría y la crítica literaria posestructuralista se desarrollaron durante este tiempo. -writers of the period: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks.