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When the Saxons invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries brought with them the common Germanic metre used for oral poetry, that´s why also was called the oral period. Writers:
Alfred, King (849-899)
Bede, The Venerable (673-735)
Caedmon (650-680) -
It characterized by medieval writing and religion.
The Norman Conquest helps with the transformation of the literature of the English. Old English prose texts were copied, the homilies of Aelfric were especially popular, and King Alfred’s translations of Boethius and Augustine survive only in 12th-century manuscripts.
Authors:
Caxton, William
Chaucer, Geoffrey
Coverdale, Miles
Mandeville, Sir John -
Implies the rebirth of culture and learning. Renaissance was initially started in Italy in the late 14th century. The first printing press was introduced so this made it possible for the writers to produce written works. Authors
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Nicholas Machiavelli
John Donne -
This time period is divided into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson.
Writers tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks. Neoclassical literature is characterized by order, accuracy, and structure. Authors: Alexander Pope
John Dryden
Jonathan Swift
Josiah Wedgwood -
The most notable feature of the poetry of the time is the new role of individual thought and personal feeling. Authors: August Wilhelm von Schlegel
William Blake
Percy Bysshe Shelley
John Keats
William Wordsworth. -
One of the most important factors that defined this age was its stress on morality.
The novel as a genre tries to entertain the rising middle class, and represent contemporary life in a changing society. Authors: Charles Dickens
William Makepeace Thackeray
Mrs. Gaskell
George Eliot -
The Edwardian period covers the time from Queen Victoria's ' death to the beginning of World War I in 1914.
The Edwardian writers were mostly concerned with the implications of living in a new and more scientific and inventive world with rapidly developing technology (cars, phones, plumbing) and changing values. Edwardian literature would then go on to be more intense, social, and political. Authors: E.M. Forster
Joseph Conrad
H.G. Wells built -
The origins of Georgian literature date to the 4th century, when the Georgian people were converted to Christianity and a Georgian alphabet was developed. In this period fiction literature was developed. Authors: Daniel Defoe
Sir Walter Scott
Jane Austen. -
There were many cultural shocks with the beginning of modernism. you will find the literature of the modern period having less zeal for love, natural beauty, and sentiments. Modern writers come up with a fresh point of view suiting the conventional audience. Authors: W. B. Yeats.
Seamus Heaney.
Dylan Tomás.
W. H. Auden, Virginia Woolf.
Wilfred Owen. -
The postmodern novel is subversive, it counters traditional notions of plot, narrative, chronology, and character development. Postmodern novels are often described as self-reflexive, are also related to fiction itself, and topics of society, and reality. Authors: T. S. Eliot
Morrison
Shaw
Beckett
Stoppard -
Works of contemporary literature reflect social and/or political viewpoints, shown through realistic characters, connections to current events, and socioeconomic messages. Authors: Jonathan Franzen
Isabel Allende
Margaret Atwood.
Ian McEwan
