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This period is characterized for the invasion of the Angles, the Saxons and the Yutes. The literature was determined by the lifestyle marked by wars and warriors. The principal pieces of literature were oral, the most representative one is Beowulf, also poets like Caedmon and Cynewulf. -
This period is is named for the reign of James I, during this era the translation of of Homer's Iliad and Odyssey was completed and the Kings James version of the bible appeared. Some of the most importan writers are John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth.
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During this period, there is a huge changing in arts, literature and culture, due to the lifestyle, with began what we know today as modern English. Most of the writings on this period were religious, also we can find Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson. some of the important piece of work are "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and The Canterburry Tales." -
This period is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction writing. Some of the most representatives of thiw era are: Sigmund Freud, Ernst Mach, Friedrich Nietzsche, Charles Baudelaire, Fyodor Dostoyevsky (Crime and Punishment), amonghst others. -
Also called Modern era, the dominat arts were literature and music. This event is divided in 3 periods. 1. The Elizabethan period (1558–1603) Of Queen Ekizabeht I 2. The Jacobean Age (1603–1625) of King James I and the Caroline Age (1625–1653) of King Charles I -
This period was the golden age of English drama. Some of its noteworthy figures and pieces of literature include Christopher Marlowe (The Tragicall History of D. Faustus), Francis Bacon (Essayes or Counsels, Civill and Morall), Edmund Spenser (The Shepheardes Calender), Sir Walter Raleigh (Raleigh poems and books), and, of course, William Shakespeare (King Lear and Macbeth).
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This period started with the restoration of the monarchy, bringing King Charles II to the English throne. During this era comedy and satire became popular, and theaters became back to life. Some important works and authors were: John Dryden -The Rival Ladies Tyrannick Love, All for Love; William Congreve-The Old Bachelor , The Double Dealer , The Mourning Bride; William Wycherley-Love in a Wood, The Gentleman Dancing-Master; George Etherege-The Comical Revenge , She Would If She Could. -
This period is named after King Charles I (Carolus in latin). This time is important in history because of the development of three great schools of poetry: Metaphysical ( George Herbert, Henry Vaughan, Katherine Philips), Cavalier (Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and John Suckling) and Puritan schools of poetry (John Donne, Robert Herrick and John Milton). The entire period was marked by civil war. Some of the representative figures are John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert.
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In this period, Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan, led Parliament, who ruled the nation. At this time, public theaters were closed (for nearly two decades) to prevent public assembly and to combat moral and religious transgressions. Thie era was marked by the rebirth of the moral nature of man. In this age there were not fixed standars of literature and there is a confusion on religion and politics. -
the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. It is divided in two, the Augustan period and the Age of Sensibility. -
During this era there was a rapid evolution of the novel and the satire ; the drama change from political satire into melodrama. The greatest poet was Alexander Pope (An Essay on Criticism, The Rape of the Lock, The Dunciad, and An Essay on Man. Other authors and works were Jonathan Swift, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu(Embassy Letter nad a very imortant woman responsible for the introduction of the smallpox inoculation) and Daniel Defoe (The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe)
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was the time of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, and, of course, Samuel Johnson. Ideas such as neoclassicism, a critical and literary mode, and the Enlightenment, a particular worldview shared by many intellectuals, were championed during this age. Novelists to explore include Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne as well as the poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy.
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The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended. Many believe it is a direct response to modernism. Some notable writers of the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. Many postmodern authors wrote during the modern period as well.
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Romanticism emphasized the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the imaginative, the personal, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and the transcendental. Amongst the most important authors and works we find: Lyrical Ballads of William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Blake. -
It is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day. This is one of the longest lasting styles of literature, due to this there are many authors and books. David Herbert Lawrence (Sons and Lovers). James Joyce, Ulysses, Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888- 1965) Murder in the Cathedral.George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950) Mrs. ... William Butler Yeats (1865- 1939) The Land of Heart's Desire.
