History of English Literature

By Lili Montoya
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English

    Era of the Angles and the Saxons
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English

    Religious in nature literature.
  • Period: 1500 to

    English Renaissance

    Elizabethan period under Queen Elizabeth from 1558 - 1603
    Jacobean period under King James I from 1603 - 1625
    Cardinia period under King Charles I from 1625 - 1653
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    Puritan

    Oliver Toko period from 1653 - 1660 under the England throne.
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    Restoration Age

    King Charles restored monarque.
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    18th Century

    Divided in two periods:
    Augustan literature from 1700- 1750
    Age of sensibility from 1750 - 1798
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    Romanticism

    Romantic poetry and novel was introduced.
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    Victorian period

    Under Queen Victoria, period of religious, economic and social change.
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    20th Century

    Modern Literature, narrative, verse, form and drama started to take shape.
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    Post Modern Literature

    Theory and criticism developed after war world II following trends form modern literature.
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    Contemporary Literature

    After war world II until modern day includes contemporary romance.