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Anglo saxon poetry reflected the transitions from traditional pagan beliefs to Christian ideas, and the struggle to blend the two into a nwe worldview
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Known as the language of Geoffrey Chaucer, gave way to modern English during the middle ages. Works fequently of a religiously didactic content. The Cantebury Tales" by Chaucer
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It has three periods: Elizabeth 1558 to 1603,Jacobean Period 1603 to 1625,Carolina Period 1625 to 1653.Texts for public performance( plays, masques) books of poetry. Book of common Prayer published by Thomas Cranmer
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1653 Izaac Walton published "The compleat Angler"
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Charles II restored the Monarchy. Jhon Milton wrote Paradise Lost.
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This century divided into 2 periods: Augustan literature and
Age of Sensibility. Begins in English Literature, claming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar. Thomas Paine published "Age of Reason" -
Authors who write about life, love and nature. Authors found the world to be dessapointing and had a melancholy bent to their works. Elevation of the common man (folklore, myth). Walter Scott (Ivanhoe)
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Named for the reign of Queen Victoria, Britan's longest reigning monarch . "Leaves of grass" Walt Whitman
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Modernists were concerned with the uncertainly and complexity of the postwar world and were heavily influenced by sigmundFreud ideas about sexuality and the unconscious. H:G, Wells published in 1910 the History of Mr Polly
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Rowling J.K, "Harry Potter and the Philophoser's Stone"
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Present Literature. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman
