History of english literature

HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

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  • 2000 BCE

    Post-Modern

    Post-Modern
  • 2000 BCE

    Contemporary

    Contemporary
  • 1940 BCE

    Modern Literature

    Modern Literature
  • Period: 1940 BCE to 2000 BCE

    Post-Modern

    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
  • 1901 BCE

    Victorian

    Victorian
  • Period: 1901 BCE to 1940 BCE

    Modern Literature

    • 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.
  • 1837 BCE

    Romanticism

    Romanticism
  • Period: 1837 BCE to 1901 BCE

    Victorian

    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"
  • 1798 BCE

    18th Century

    18th Century
  • Period: 1798 BCE to 1837 BCE

    Romanticism

    • Romantic Poetrics
    • Romantic Novels
  • Period: 1798 BCE to 1837 BCE

    Romanticism

    • 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"
  • Period: 1798 BCE to 1837 BCE

    Romanticism

    English Romantic literature is characterized by a love of nature, distrust of reason, and rejection of traditional aurthority.
  • 1700 BCE

    Restoration Age

    Restoration Age
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1798 BCE

    18th Century

    • 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"
  • 1660 BCE

    English Renaissance

    English Renaissance
  • Period: 1660 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Restoration Age

    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.
  • Period: 1553 BCE to 1660 BCE

    Puritan

    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)
  • 1500 BCE

    Middle English

    Middle English
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1660 BCE

    English Renaissance

    • Elizabethan Period: 1550-1603
    • Jacobean Period: 1603-1625
    • Carolina Period: 1625-1653
  • Period: 1500 BCE to 1660 BCE

    English Renaissance

    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.
  • 1066 BCE

    Old English or Anglo-Saxon

    Old English or Anglo-Saxon
  • Period: 1066 BCE to 1500

    Middle English

    Best known as the language of Geoffrey Chaucer.
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English

    Romans withdrew from Britain, leaving it to Germanic and Scandinavian settlers The Old English period ended with the Norman invasion of 1066.

  • Puritan

    Puritan
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    18th Century

    • Augustan Literature: 1700-1750
    • Age of Sensibility: 1750-1798