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Modernism includes an emphasis on impressionsm and subjectivity in writing (and visual arts as well); an empahsis on how seeing (or reading or perception itself) takes place, rather than on what is perceived
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- William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrences, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms.
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This age includes the love poems of Elizabeth and Roberth Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson´s sweeping saga of Camelot entitled #Idylls of the king".
* Robert Louis Stevenson´s including his famous "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll, and Mr. Hyde" -
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- Romantic Poetrics
- Romantic Novels
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- John Keats is possibly the most famous author of this period.
- William Wordsworth with the notable poem " The Word is too much with us, late and soon."
- samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote " The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"
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English Romantic literature is characterized by a love of nature, distrust of reason, and rejection of traditional aurthority.
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- William Shakespeares: his plays are divided in 3: comedies, tragedies,and histories. Other prominent author of this period include: John Donne, famous for his "Holy sonnets" including the line "Death, be not proud" *John Milton, the blind poet. He wrote the allegorical epic "Paradise Lost"
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The Restoration period marked the complete breaking with the Renaissance literature. It reflect the spirit of the age. The spirit of corruption and moral laxity, which were predominant in the social life of the restoration, are reflected in literature.
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Or the Age of Milton which is divided into the Jacobean and Caroline periods after the names of the ruled James I and Charles I, who rules from 1063 to 1625 and 1625 to 1649 respectively; and the Restoration period or the Age of Dryden (1660 - 1700)
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- Elizabethan Period: 1550-1603
- Jacobean Period: 1603-1625
- Carolina Period: 1625-1653
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The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England. The dominant art forms fo the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the Englih Renaissancce were much less significant than in the Italian Renaissance.
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Best known as the language of Geoffrey Chaucer.
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Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving it to Germanic and Scandinavian settlers The Old English period ended with the Norman invasion of 1066.
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- Augustan Literature: 1700-1750
- Age of Sensibility: 1750-1798