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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
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750
Beowulf epic poem
Between the years 700 and 750, the Germanic poem was written -
750
Other great poetry works were written
During this time, other poems like The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and The Dream of the Rood were written. -
750
Anonymous poems
Most of the poems and writings were written by anonymous people, just this ones are the ones that we knew about Caedmon, Bede, Alfred, and Cynewulf. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
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1189
The Owl and the Nightingale
The owl and the Nightingale was the most recognize poem of this period, this makes part of the debate genre. -
1200
Epic Poem Brut by Lawamon
The epic poem Brut by Lawamon was written with influence of the French Model. -
1200
Some writers from Middle English
Some writers from this period were anonymous but the recognized ones are Roger Bacon (1214 - 1294), William Caxton (1422-1491), Geoffrey Chaucer (1340 - 1400) and John Gower (1330 - 1408), John most recognized poem was the Confessio Amantis. -
1300
The Ormulum
The Ormulum by Orm was an idiosyncratic write. -
1500
Some authors of the period
Some authors from this period are Thomas Dekker (Most famous dramatist), William Rowley (1585 - 1626) and William Shakespeare (1564-1616) -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
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1526
Bible translation by William Tyndale
Durint this period people wanted to read the bible, thats why William Tyndale led this translation. -
1541
The father of the English Prose
During this period the writer Roger Ascham began with the Protestant Reformation. -
Poet Edmund Spenser
This poet most imporant verse epic was The Faerie Queene that had a strong influence on English literature. -
Miguel de Cervantes
Miguel de Cervantes was a spanish writer and one of the worlds pre-eminent novelist. His most famous novel is Don Quixote. -
Period: to
Puritan Period
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Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost is the most famous poem writted by John Milton and talks about Adan and Eve's sin. -
Period: to
Restoration literature
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The Country Wife
This sexual comedy was written by William Wycherley, it satirizes the sexual duplicity of the aristocracy during the reign of Charles II. -
The Pilgrim’s Progress
This allegoy prose was written by John Bunyan in 1678, and talks about a person who represents mankind in general -
John Dryden
John Dryden was the great literary figure of this time (1631 - 1700) his most famous poem is bsalom and Achitophel -
Development of modern novels
During this period, the modern novels born as a literary genre -
Period: to
18th Century
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Robinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe's is the best known first novel in English. -
The Tears of Scotland
Tobias Smollett wrote her first poem about the battle of Culloden -
William Blake
He wrote visionary and imaginary poetry dificult to understand -
The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa
One of the first slave narratives was published by James Fenimore Cooper -
Dream of the red chamber
Was published for the first time in movable format. -
Begining of Romatic period
This period began with the publishing of Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth -
Period: to
Romanticism
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John Keats
John Keats is one of the most popular poets of the second generation of romantic writers, He is know for his Odes like Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn. -
Period: to
Victorian Period
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
Was a very influential writer in Romanticism period. her most recognized work is Self-Reliance -
Dramatic Monologue
During this period the Dramatic Monologue was developed, My last Duchess is one of the most famous examples of this genre. -
Jane Eyre
Jane Eyre was a gothic novel writed by Charlotte Brontë, that uses a Gothic, fiction sensations. -
Walden
Thoreau went out from the wilderness writing Walden -
Genres during this period
During this period writers uses different genres to their novels like, Gothic, Psychological realism, Social realism, Industrial novels, and Satirical realism -
Influence of the modernist literature
The theories of Sigmund Freud and Ernst Mach influence the modernist literature, Mach argued in his book the science of mechanics. -
Hunger
Hunger is a Novel writted by Knut Hamsun and it was the most relevant novel of the moment. -
Period: to
Modern Literature
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The metamorphosis, the trial, the castle.
This novels and books were written by Franz Kakfa and are the most best-known works. -
Late Modernism
Late modernism is called to the published works after 1930, some writers from this modernism are Wallace Stevens, Anna Akhmatova, and Thomas Mann -
Period: to
Postmodern Literature
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Experimental Literature
This literature emerged in the USA through the writings of Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth -
Influences from this period
The most notable influences from this period are August Strindber novelist, Luigi Pirandello dramatist, and Bertolt Brech theatre practitioner and poet.