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Refers to poetry and prose written in English in medieval England, much of this prose was translations of other subjects of a legal, medical and religious nature in this period is recognized: Hymn is often considered -
It is represented the transition between the culture of language and lifestyle of England, the literature of this period was dominated by religion that included poetry, theology and the lives of the saints, in this period appear characters such as Chaucer, Thomas Malory and Rober... Among the most outstanding works are "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". -
The renaissance also called "early modern" is subdivided into four parts the Elizabethan age: it was the golden age of English drama one of its main figures were Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh and, of course, William Shakespeare, the Jacobean age by the reign of James I, includes the works of John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton the translation of the bible the Carolingian age and the Commonwealth period. -
It is subdivided into the age of august 1700-1745 and the age of sensibility 1745 1785 restoration period sees the puritan age in theater with talents such as William congreve and John Dryden; comedies developed in these eras along with satire with successes of some writers such as Samuel Butler, aphra Behn, John Bunyan and John Locke. This period saw the representation of the pietist Lady Mary Wortley noted for highlighting stereotypical roles. -
The beginning of this period is somewhat debated, some indicate that, at the beginning of 1785 continued from the years of sensitivity, others say it began in 1789 with the start of the French revolution begins with the publication of lyrical ballads, there is also a minor period called era Gothic -
The reign of Queen Victoria was considered the golden age of English literature during the Novel being the main genre of English literature, a time of great economic, religious and social conflicts, among the famous novelists are Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Thomas Hardy -
Named after King Edward VII that although it was a short period amazing classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford the most prominent poets were Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats and playwrights, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke, John Masefield, Rupert Brooke and William Butler Yeats. -
It is most recognized for the reign of George V but also mentions the reigns of the four successor reigns since 1714 represented by the Gregorian poets Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies and Rupert Brooke. -
This period was applied with the writing of works after the beginning of the Second World War, the characteristics are given with the narrative style, verse and drama, the most memorable writers of this period are: novelists James Joyce, Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson. This period also saw the emergence of the new criticism. -
It began approximately at the end of the Second World War, it is thought to be a response to the modernism era, the theory and post-structuralist literary criticism were the highlights of this era. Some prominent writers of the time were Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, among others.