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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
This Age started in the fifth century when the Jutes, Angles and Saxons came to England from Germany, defeated the English tribes and started their reign. It ended in 1066 with the Norman Conquest. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
The time from 1066 to 1500 is also called the Middle Ages. The early part of the middle Ages is called the Dark Ages because what actually happened during this period can hardly be known. The remarkable events of this period were- i. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
English Renaissance (1500–1660) Renaissance style and ideas were slow to penetrate England and the Elizabethan era (1558–1603) is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance. However, many scholars see its beginnings in the early 1500s during the reign of Henry VIII. -
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Puritan
The Fall Of Puritanism. 1653 - 1660. Part 11
There is just as little of the wide sympathy with all that is human which is so loveable in Chaucer and Shakspere. On the contrary the Puritan individuality is nowhere so overpowering as in Milton. He leaves the stamp of himself deeply graven on all he creates. We hear his voice in every line of his poem. -
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Restoration Age
The period from 1660 to 1700 is known as the Restoration period or the Age of Dryden. Dryden was the representative writer of this period. The restoration of King Charles II in 1660 marks the beginning of a new era both in the life and the literature of England. -
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18th Century
The Age of Reason (anything could be achieved through the calm working of the human mind)
The Age of Classicism (in all the arts there was a fascination with Ancient Greece and Rome
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Contemporary
The word contemporary literature means belonging to or occurring in the now, which suggests that writers after 1940 were focusing on their feelings, emotions and societies as they were experiencing them. The writing styles can vary, but the main idea is to convey realistic characters and experiences. -
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Romanticism
The Romantic Period began roughly around 1798 and lasted until 1837. The political and economic atmosphere at the time heavily influenced this period, with many writers finding inspiration from the French Revolution. -
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Victorian
The period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 1837 until her death in 1901 was marked by sweeping progress and ingenuity. It was the time of the world's first Industrial Revolution, political reform and social change, Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, a railway boom and the first telephone and telegraph. -
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Modern Literature
Modernism, in its broadest definition, is modern thought, character, or practice. More specifically, the term describes a set of cultural tendencies and movements, originally arising from wide-scale and far-reaching changes to Western society in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -
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Post Modern
Postmodernism is the name given to the period of literary criticism that developed toward the end of the twentieth century. Just as the name implies, it is the period that comes after the modern period. But these are not easily separated into discrete units with specific dates as centuries or presidential terms are limited.