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450
Period: 450 to 1066 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
*Was a translation of a legal, medical or religious nature.
*Works, such as Beowulf
*Poets: Caedmon and Cynewulf
Here there was oral literature and prose, it was a translation on the legal, medical or religious nature -
1066
Period: 1066 to 1500 Middle English Period
Began with the Norman Conquest in 1966 and ends in the fifteenth century. There are two ages: the period between 1066 and 1340 called "Anglo-Norman" and the period from 1340 to 1400 called "age of chaucer"
Writers: Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson
Works: "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight"
a transition is seen in the language, culture and lifestyle of England and results in "modern" English -
1500
Period: 1500 to 1660 The Renaissance Period
Divided into four parts:
The Elizabethan Age (1558–1603). Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, and, William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet."
the Jacobean Age (1603–1625). John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth.
the Caroline Age (1625–1649). John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert
the Commonwealth Period (1649–16609. John Milton,Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell -
Period: 1600 to 1785 The Neoclassical Period
The Restoration (1660–1700).The Restoration Comedies (Fashion Comedies) William Congreve and John Dryden. Satire of Samuel Butler and writers : Aphra Behn, John Bunyan, and John Locke.
The Augustan Age (1700–1745).Lady Mary Wortley Montagu,and Daniel Defoe.
The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785).Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. Novelists: Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne. poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy. -
Period: 1785 to 1832 The Romantic Period
written about: Death, melancholia, connected to sadness even depression. tends to focus on “the big six”:
William Blake "The Tyger".
John Keats "The poems of John Keats".
William Wordsworth "Lyrical Ballads".
Percy Bysshe "Ode to the West Wind".
Lord Byron "Don Juan".
Samuel Taylor "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" There is a minor period between 1786 and 1800, called the Gothic era. Writers: Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe, and William Beckford. -
Period: 1832 to 1901 The Victorian Period
divided into three stages: The period “Early” (1832–1848), “Mid” (1848–1870) and “Late” (1870–1901)
phases, Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860), Aestheticism and Decadence (1880–1901).
Poets: Elizabeth Barrett "The Cry of the Children",
Robert Louis "the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
others poets: Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater . -
Period: 1901 to 1914 The Edwardian Period
Period is named for King Edward VII
ended with the outbreak of World War I in 1914, it is the last period of British history
Novelists
Joseph Conrad "Nostromo"
Ford Madox Ford,
Rudyard Kipling,
H.G. Wells,
Henry James "The Sacred Fountain".
Poets:
Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman"
William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming"
Dramatists:
James Barrie "The Little White Bird"
George Bernard Shaw,
John Galsworthy "The Silver Box" -
Period: 1910 to 1936 The Georgian Period
The themes tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and in a traditional way rather than with passion or experimentation
Poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
"The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke.
""The bull" is a poem written by Ralph Hodgson. -
Period: 1914 to 1940 The Modern Period
bold experimentation with theme, style and form, narrative, verse, and drama.
Novelists:
James Joyce "Ulises"; Virginia Woolf "Mrs. Dalloway"; Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence (They dealt with issues of death and disappointment)
Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing.
Poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves. -
Period: 1945 to 2000 The Postmodern Period
it begins roughly at the time that World War II ended.Some say the period ended around 1990.
The authors began to describe everyday life and new technologies.
Authors:
Samuel Becket t- "Molloy"
Anthony Burgess - "A vision of Battlements"
John Fowles - "The collector"
Penelope M. Lively - "The Road To Lichfield"
Iain Banks - "The Wasp Factory"
Joseph Heller - "Something Happened" -
Period: Contemporary period 2000 to "present"
Writers:
Isabel Allende. novel, "House of Spirits," (1982).
Margaret Atwood. novel. "Oryx and Crake" (2003).
Jonathan Franzen. work "How to Be Alone," (2002).
Ian McEwan. Short stories, "First Love, Last Rites" (1976).
David Mitchell. Novel, "Ghostwritten" (1999).
Toni Morrison. Novel "Beloved" (1987).
Haruki Murakami. Novel "A Wild Sheep Chase" (1982).
Philip Roth. History, The Plot Against America (2005)
Zadie Smith. Novel, "White Teeth," (2020).
John Updike. Novel "Of the Farm" (1965)
