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Period: 450 to 1066
OLD ENGLISH
Old english/Anglo-saxon literature comes from Ancient egyptian,and sumerican era, this is made up of: poetry, alternative verse, manuscripts, problems of dating, religious verse, elegiac and heroic verse. for example, ''The Soul's Address to the Body'' found in Worcester Cathedral Library,contains only one word of possible Latinate origin,meter and Old English grammar and syntax, albeit in a degenerative state. The Peterborough Chronicle can also be considered a late-period text -
Period: 1066 to 1500
MIDDLE ENGLISH
Middle English (ME) refers to the literature written in the form of the English language known as Middle English, from the 14th century and was a form of the English language spoken after the normal conquest until the late 15th century. It is made to verse romance, the lyric, prose, courtly poetry, religious prose and secular prose.the characteristics of the literary didn't change radically until the effects of the Renaissance and became more apparent in the reign of King Henry VIII. -
Period: 1500 to
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The English renassance was a great and important cultural movement, specially for literature, it beggins in 1500 and finish in the early 17th century. This literature written in English vernacular largely began with the Protestant Reformation's call to let people interpret the Bible for themselves instead of accepting the Catholic Church's interpretation. Discussions on how to translate the Bible so that it could be understood by laymen but still do justice to God's word became contentiou. -
ELIZABETHAN PERIOD
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in the Tudor period of the history of England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history. during which such writers as Sir Philip Sidney, Edmund Spenser, Roger Ascham, Richard Hooker, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare flourished. -
JACOBEAN ERA
The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland who also inherited the crown of England in 1603 as James I. Jacobean literature begins with the drama, including some of Shakespeare's greatest, and darkest, plays. The dominant literary figure was Ben Jonson , whose varied and dramatic works followed classical models. His satiric dramas, notably the great Volpone (1606), all take a cynical view of human nature. -
CAROLINE ERA
The Caroline era refers to the period in English and Scottish history named for the 24-year reign of Charles I. he Caroline age is named after Charles I (1625-1649). Is an age of poetry of three kinds or schools: Metaphysical, Cavalier and Puritan schools of poetry. Cavalier poets, a group of English poets associated with Charles I and his exiled son. Most of their work was done between 1637 and 1660. Their poetry embodied the life and culture of upper-class, pre-Commonwealth England. -
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PURITAN
Puritan literature was direct and focused on offering instruction from a Biblical point of view. However, there were many other central characteristics: Puritan literature relied on a first-person narrative, relied on a religious, rather than an entertainment, themes and also relied on specific genres. -
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RESTORATION AGE
Restoration literature is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. In general, the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. -
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18th CENTURY
European literature of the 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, in fact many candidates for the first novel in English date from this period, of which Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known. -
AUGUSTAN LITERATURE
This period is a style of British literature produced during the reigns in the first half of the 18th century and ending in the 1740s, is one of the most illustrious periods in Latin literary histor, Marked by civil peace and prosperity, the age reached its highest literary expression in poetry, a polished and sophisticated verse generally addressed to a patron or to the emperor Augustus and dealing with themes of patriotism, love, and nature. -
AGE OF SENSIBILITY
The period in British literature is sometimes called “the Age of Sensibility,” in recognition of the high value that many Britons came to place on explorations offeeling and emotion in literature and the other arts. Like most such labels, however, “the Age of Sensibility” conceals nearly as much as it reveals. -
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ROMANTICISM
Romanticism (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1798-1837 Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical. -
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VICTORIAN AGE
Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). It was preceded by Romanticism the literature of the Victorian age portrays a completely ideal life. It was an idealistic age where the great ideals like truth, justice, love, brotherhood were emphasized by poets, essayists and novelists of the age. -
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MODERN LITERATURE
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction.his literary movement was driven by a conscious desire to overturn traditional modes of representation and express the new sensibilities of their time. -
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POST MODERNS
Postmodern literature is a form of literature that is characterized by the use of metafiction, unreliable narration, self-reflexivity, intertextuality, and which often thematizes both historical and political issues. This style of experimental literature emerged strongly in the United States in the 1940s through the writings of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, and John Barth. -
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CONTEMPORARY AGE
he word contemporary means living, belonging to or occurring in the present. So when we talk about contemporary literature, we are talking about literature that is being written in the now about the now. But what does the now encompass?
Contemporary literature is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day. While this is a vague definition, there is not a clear-cut explanation of this concept -- only interpretation by scholars and academics. .
