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1200 BCE
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1200 BCE - 455 CE)
Homer was the most important and earliest of the Greek and Roman writers. Greeks and Romans did not count themselves educated unless they knew his poems. Homer's influence was felt not only on literature, but on ethics and morality. -
800 BCE
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD CAN BE BROKEN DOWN INTO THREE PARTS.
CLASSICAL GREEK PERIOD (800-200 BCE)
CLASSICAL ROMAN PERIOD (200 BCE-455 CE)
PATRISTIC PERIOD (c. 70 CE-455 CE) -
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HISTORY OF LITERATURE BC
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731 BEDE (672 – 735) Jarrow, Northumbria
The history of English literature begins with ecclesiastical literature, legends (Eddas) and myths to works such as the author William Langland is the conjectured author of the fourteenth-century English poem Piers Plowman. -
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1375-1604
Medieval literature tends to be split into Old English (658-1100) and Middle English (1100-1500), and these are two of the most prominent works from this period. -
1500
THE RENAISSANCE ERA (1500 – 1670)
Stemming from the period of huge cultural advance known as the Renaissance (which began in Italy in the 13th century but took a while to reach England), this period in English literature is dominated by Elizabethan playwrights such as William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe and John Webster. -
1605-1798
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RENÉ DESCARTES (Renatus Cartesius)
He was extensively educated, first at a Jesuit college at age 8, then earning a law degree at 22, but an influential teacher set him on a course to apply mathematics and logic to understanding the natural world. This approach incorporated the contemplation of the nature of existence and of knowledge itself, hence his most famous observation, “I think; therefore I am.” -
THE RESTORATION (1660 – 1700)
This period marks the British king's restoration to the throne after a long period of Puritan domination in England. Its symptoms include the dominance of French and Classical influences on poetry and drama. Sample writers include John Dryden, John Locke, Sir William Temple, and Samuel Pepys, and Aphra Behn in England. Abroad, representative authors include Jean Racine and Molière. -
THE AGE OF ENLIGHTENMENT (1700 – 1800)
The Age of Enlightenment, sometimes referred to as the Age of Reason, was a cultural movement led by philosophers such as Francis Bacon and René Descartes. -
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Kubla Khan or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium-influenced dream after reading a work describing Xanadu, the summer palace of the Mongol ruler and Emperor of China Kublai Khan. -
THE MODERN PERIOD (1914-1945 CE)
Modernism embraced these changes. Technological innovation in the world of factories and machines inspired new attentiveness to technique in the arts. -
LOUIS DE BERNIÉRES
(Born 8 December 1954) is an English novelist. He is perhaps best known for his 1994 historical war novel Captain Corelli's Mandolin. In 1993 de Bernières was selected as one of the "20 Best of Young British Novelists", part of a promotion in Granta magazine. Captain Corelli's Mandolin was published in the following year, winning the Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book -
The Postmodern Period (1945 - onward)
The start of postmodernism is hard to pin down, and it's not like postmodernism is big on pinning things down anyway
