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This period comes from two Germanic tribes, Angles and Saxon. Invasion from 2 tribes in England began in 450 and ended in 1066, under William, conquered England. This preriod had a oral literature. Majority of this period was a translation legals, nature or medicine matters. Works like Beowulf, and poets like Caedman and Cynewulf, they was important. Also, their dialects were Northumbrian Kentish West Saxon, Mercial -
The Middle English period consisted of changes in the language, culture, and way of life of England. What we can call "modern" in the current period. Ends at 1500.
Cultural life was influence by the church and arrived anonymous writers.
But most were writings on nature and in 1350 they began to write a secular literature. Works like Oiers Plowman and Sir Gawain and The Green Knight prevailed. -
The Elizabethan Age, that corresponded to golden Age, authors like William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon and Edmund Spenser and their works. The Jacobean Age, that corresponded to the translation of the Bible.
That was the time when it had faith in the nobility of man-humanism and a positive willingness to lean and explore -
We have the time of The Restoration, where the period of theater and comedies, these led by playwrights like William Congreve and John Dryden.
Is characterized by order, accuracy, and structure control.
The Augustan Age was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift who drew parallels themselves. And The Age Sensibility, was the time of Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, James Boswell and Samuel Johnson. -
There are differences theories about the beginning of this period, some think that was after the Age of Sensibility, some think that was immediately in the French Revolution. When it speaks about romanticism it's referring to English Literature.
The words worth is supremely important and authors like William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats.
Some historical facts were, acceptance of emotions, themes of solitude, vivid sensory descriptions, gothic era and focus on exorcism and history. -
This period was the moment of advance, given that intellectual, religious and economic was another way of see the world. As to authors we have to Elizabeth Barrett, Christina Rosseti and Alfred Caryle.
Finally fiction was a great progress, among them we have to Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, among other.
Also, we have the Industrial Revolution and proliferation of women writers. -
In spite of outbreak of Wold War I had greats works and authors like Rudyard Kipking, H.G. Wells, and Henry James. Authors such as Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats.
Some characteristics are elegance and luxury among the rich and powerful. Also, use of metaphorics, symbolism in writen. -
Arrived poets such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies and Rupert Brooke.
In this time it treated matters of way delicated for example passion and was to be carried out in the modern period. -
Here they began to write works after the start of World War I.
In this time it speaks of verse and drama.
Soma writers of this period are Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Dorothy Richardson, George Bernard, Caryl Churchill. Among other. Individualism, experimentation, symbolism, absurdity, and formalism and relativism. Theory of psycho.analysis and irrational philosophy. -
Some writers were Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. among other. This period started when ended World War II. -
Today, the current affairs as to literature is so good. Most now, when youth literature, authors like John Green, Rick Riordan, V.E. Shawmb and Paula Haukins. In facts historical, we have pandemic of Covid-19 and War between Rusia and Ucrania.