English literature

HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LITERATURE

By Cesar Fredy Conda Trochez
  • Dec 31, 600

    1. Old English Period 450 to 1066

    Few surviving texts with little in common
    language closer to modern German than modern English 731 The Venerable Bede, in his monastery at Jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people C. 800 Beowulf, the first great work of Germanic literature, mingles the legends of Scandinavia with the experience in England of Angles and Saxons C. 950 The material of the Eddas, taking shape in Iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and Burgundy
  • Jan 6, 1300

    2. MIDDLE ENGLISH 1066 TO 1500

    Works frequently of a religiously didactic content
    written for performance at court or for festivals 1469 Thomas Malory, in gaol somewhere in England, compiles Morte d'Arthur – an English account of the French tales of King Arthur
    C. 1387 Chaucer begins an ambitious scheme for 100 Canterbury Tales, of which he completes only 24 by the time of his death
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    Elizabethian.

    1558-1603 queen elizabeth
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    Jacobean

    1603 1625 king james 1
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    Carolina

    1625- 1653 king charles 1

  • 3. ENGLISH RENAISSENSE 1500 TO 1660

    Influence of Aristotle, Ovid, and other Greco-Roman thinkers, as well as science and exploration.
    primarily texts for public performance (plays, masques) and some books of poetry Willliam shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe are some representants 1510 Erasmus and Thomas More take the northern Renaissance in the direction of Christian humanism 1524 William Tyndale studies in the university at Wittenberg and plans to translate the Bible into English

  • 4. PURITAN 1653 1660

    OLIVER CROWNWELL ENGLAND THRONE

  • 5. RESTORATION AGE 1660 TO 1700

    CHARLES 2 RESTORE THE MONARQUY
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    Augustan 1700- 1750

  • 6. 18TH CENTURY 1700 TO 1798

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    Age of sensibility 1750- 1798

  • 7. ROMANTICISM 1798 TO 1837

    ROMANTIC POETRY ROMANTIC NOVEL
    The themes of literature were focused on the love of life or nature with a melancholic or sad feeling. John Keats is possibly the most famous author of this period.
    William Wordsworth is also a key figure, with the notable poem "The world is too much with us, late and soon," as is his collaborator Samuel Taylor Coleridge, who wrote "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner."

  • 8. VICTORIAN 1832 TO 1901

    named for the reign of Queen Victoria, Britain's longest reigning monarch. the literature is seen as a bridge between Romanticism and Modernism. emphasized realistic portrayals of common people. Charles Dickens (David Copperfield, Oliver Twist, great expectations
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    REALISTIC PERIOD AMERICA 1860 1914

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    EDWARDIAN PERIOD ENGLAND 1901 1914

  • 9. MODERN LITERATURE 1901 TO 1940

    1906 The first volume of the inexpensive Everyman's Library is issued by Joseph Dent, a London publisher E. Nesbit publishes The Railway Children, the most successful of her books featuring the Bastable family 1907 J.M. Synge's Playboy of the Western World provokes violent reactions at its Dublin premiere Edmund Gosse publishes Father and Son, an account of his difficult relationship with his fundamentalist father, Philip Gosse

  • 10. POSTMODERN 1940 TO 2000

    1961 British author Roald Dahl publishes a novel for children, James and the Giant Peach
    Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, set in an Edinburgh school in the 1930s
    1962 Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, setting poems by Wilfred Owen, is first performed in the rebuilt Coventry Cathedral
    British author Doris Lessing publishes an influential feminist novel, The Golden Notebook 2000 The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials

  • 11. CONTEMPORARY