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Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800 BCE)
Classical Greek Period (800-200 BCE)
Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-455 BCE)
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Also called Anglo-Saxon literature, it was written in old English.
Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in early medieval England, from the 7th century to the decades after the Norman Conquest of 1066. -
Before the conquest, rhyme had begun to supplant rather than supplement alliteration in some poems, which continued to use the older four-stress line. -
Confessio amantis -
Canterbury tales -
Morte d'Arthur
The Death of Arthur is Sir Thomas Malory's retelling of the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table -
Poetry in the Renaissance became one of the most valued forms of literature and was often accompanied by music. -
Utopia -
This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. -
Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, King Lear -
The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy. -
Lyrical Ballads -
The 19th century is considered by some to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English. -
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point -
Edwardian era writers focused on the bigger picture: subversive ideas were presented metaphorically, symbolically, and in opposition to the liberating force of nature. -
Georgian literature, produced primarily in monasteries, was ecclesiastical; hymns and religious biographies and chronicles as well as Biblical and liturgical translations are among the principal works surviving from this period. -
Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century. -
The Waves -
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. -
Collected histories -
Image-Music-Text -
Harry Potter -
The 21st century in literature refers to world literature produced during the 21st century. The measure of years is, for the purpose of this article, literature written from (roughly) the year 2001 to the present. -
Paper Towns
Let it snow
Lookinf for Alaska
The fault in our stars
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Hush Hush
Crescendo
Silencio
Finale
Dangerous liars
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