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history of english literature

  • Oral literature
    450

    Oral literature

    They made oral literature for everywhere. Also, they had advance writing as medical, religious, they made two works as: Beowulfand poets Caedmon and Cynewulf.
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    old english (Anglo-saxon)

    This period two Germanic tribes come to Great Britain from what is now Germany and Denmark, that tribes called "Angels and saxons" for that reason the name of term anglo-saxon, they invaded natives along with the jutes, the end of this period in 1066 with Norman France, under William, conquered England.
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English Period

    In this period increased the culture, lifestyle for that reason they called "modern" there were writings as religion in nature. Also, it had significant changes to its vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation and orthography.
  • From about 1350 onward, secular literaturebegan to rise
    1350

    From about 1350 onward, secular literaturebegan to rise

    The most representatibe autors were: Thomas Malory and Robert Henryson with notable works "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight."
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Renaissance

    Many literary historians and critic called "Early Modern". it had dominant art forms as literature and visual arts.
    this period is divided into four parts the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), the Jacobean Age (1603–1625), theCaroline Age (1625–1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660).
  • Elizabethan Age
    1558

    Elizabethan Age

    This period called "Golden age of English drama" It was during the reign of Queen Elizabeth,
    this period flowering of poetry, music and literature, the most famous are William Shakespeare with theater, the wonderful works as Romeo and Juliet and hamlet.
    There were important authors as:Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh...Etc.
  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785)

    In this period a western cultural movement, visual arts, literature, theatre, music and architecture.
  • Jacobean Age (1603–1625)

    Jacobean Age (1603–1625)

    This period is known as reign of James or Jacobean about styles as Jacobean architecture, arts.
    This period is unification of England and Scotland. Also, the first colonies on the North America, in literature William Shakespeare with his works as: King Lear, Macbeth and the tempest.
    . Other authors as: John Done, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, BenJonson, and Lady Mary Wroth. Also, in this period appear the King James translation of the Bible when these translations were banned.
  • The Caroline age (1625 - 1649)

    The Caroline age (1625 - 1649)

    This period was on the reign of Charles 1, this period was dominate by growing religious, political, and social discord between the king, it was art with Patrick Collinson, Edward Chaneyeith the helped of the catholic people. the poetry was flourishing with Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace etc. Theatre continue with Philip Massinger, James Shirley, John Ford.
  • The Commonwealth Period (1649–1660).

    The Commonwealth Period (1649–1660).

    This period is the end of the eEnglish war and the monarchy, the theaters were closed for avoid combat moral and religious.
    Drama suffered, prose with Thomas Fuller, Cowley and Andrew Marwell.
  • The Restoration (1660–1700),

    The Restoration (1660–1700),

    During the period of Stuart reign, it was especially in the theater, we can find works as Paradise lost and the Earl of Rochester´s Sodom, the high-spirited sexual comedy of the country Wife.
  • The Augustan Age (1700–1745)

    The Augustan Age (1700–1745)

    It was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift, we have poet was prolific and authors as: Lady Mary Wortley Montagu and Daniel Defoe.
  • The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785).

    The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785).

    Referred to as the age of Johnson, it had a critical and literal mode and novelists to explore include Henry field, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Steme and poets as: William Cowper and Thomas Percy.
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    The romantic period (1785–1832)

    Some people said the period start on 1789 French Revolution others believe that publication of William Wordsworth, it was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement in the beginning to agricultural revolution and industrial revolution, we had publications as Lyrical Ballads is its true beginning of William wordsworth and Samuel Taylor. This period is about diversity in literature to different ages.
  • “Early” (1832–1848),

    “Early” (1832–1848),

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    The Victorian Period (1832–1901)

    This period is of the reign of queen Victoria, it this time of a great social, religious, intellectual and economic issues this period is divided TO four.
    This period was continuing with romantic period about the great literal works. We have poets as:
    Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold.
  • “Mid” (1848–1870)

    “Mid” (1848–1870)

  • Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860)

    Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860)

  • “Late” (1870–1901)

    “Late” (1870–1901)

  • Decadence (1880–1901).

    Decadence (1880–1901).

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    The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)

    The name of this period is about the king Edward VII, cover the period between Victoria death and the outhbreak of world war I. There was a classic novelist such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling,H.G. Wells, and Henry James. Also, there ware dramatists such as James Barrie, George Bernard and John Galsworthy.
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    The Georgian Period (1910–1936)

    In the period to reign of George V, we can find poets of Edward Marsh with topic as rural or pastoral in nature.
  • The Modern Period (1914–?)

    The Modern Period (1914–?)

    This period mean after the world war, the style is about narrative, verse and drama some of the most notable writers as James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene,E. M. Forster, and Doris Lessing; the poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney,Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves; and the dramatists.
    Also, the criticism appeared like Woolf. Eliot, William Empson, now this method continues.
  • The poetical william wordsworth

    The poetical william wordsworth

  • The Postmodern Period (1945–?)

    The Postmodern Period (1945–?)

    It begins about World War, many people said it is responsible for the modernism, other said the period ended about 1990, the poststructuralist and criticism development, some notable writings include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. Many authors right now.