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Periods in the history of English literature

  • Jan 1, 1066

    Old English 460-1066

    Period Anglo-Saxons language was called Angle-ish or English Caedmon’s Hymn, it was called the first poem style and remember so time ago on ecclesiastical history.
  • Middle english Period  1066-1500
    Jan 1, 1470

    Middle english Period 1066-1500

    The name was given by historical linguistics and diverse forms of the English language spoken, another event, the substitution of natural gender, culture was by the church, allegorical fable. Chaucer talked about 30 different people from all walks of medieval society with different characters everyone called "spin".Chaucer, Canterbury Tales.
  • English Renaissance 1500-1660

    The writing was developed classical learning uses of fluency imagination and enthusiasm creating advances in this language with a positive willingness to learn and explore, born the comedy and drama skepticisms, faith in the nobility of man humanism. art, culture, literature, authors Jacobean-Puritan William Shakespeare
  • The neoclassical period 1600-1785

    Characterized with order accuracy and structure of control, inspire the classical art and cultures, new experiences, and discover and dominance of materialism into empirical science. Wordsworth published the Romantic 'Lyrical Ballads' authors Augustan and Johnson
  • Restoration age 1660-1700

    Here were established the heroic couple as a standard form of English poetry. representative John Dryden
    another historical event was unlimited exploration o the world
    revolution of 1688 and literature movements on the age.
    Charles II
  • 18th CENTURY 1700-1798

    The age of reason, classicism, elegance, and philosophy prioritizing the individual over the universal the first modern biography by James Boswell
    the greatest verse satire by Alexander Pope. poet lexicographer author the vanity human. Samuel Johnson
  • Romanticism 1785-1832

    Personal and political liberty and the energy and sublimity of the natural world intellectual sought to break the bonds.

    progress in different events as discover metals
    relationship neoclassical period, Here give reason to acceptance of emotions, poems verse, lyrics; Reason to obtain the name (romantic period), humans rights, spiritual and supernatural elements

    represents Charlotte Smith Willian Hazlitt
    literature movement occurring in England.
    French revolution.
  • Victorian 1832- 1901

    The name is from Queen Victoria characterized for energy and high moral purpose one peace to refined culture great advancements and self-confidence with positive impact in the English literature, Here we found industrial changes revolution, the proliferation of women writers civilization novels, new change the romanticism to realism politics to passion some optimism to pessimism.
  • modern literature 1901-1940

    Writers of this period were based on the upon of realistic naturalistic conventions oscar Wilde it was opposite to attitude and life its problems adopted by Victorian.
  • The edwardian period (1901-1914) The geordian Period (1910-1936)

    both have similar events, time to the elegance the rich and powerful demonstration, extravagant parties and shows on the popular places churches, famous personality, futurism, expressionism, and using of metaphoric symbolism in writing, born the constructivism and dadaism movements. Edwardian & Georgian
  • Post modern 1940-

    Time to individualism, experimentation, symbolism, formalism, and relativism, the new theories about irrational philosophy.
    Statistically and ideologically by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation paradox john Ashbery - Margaret Atwood.
  • The modern period 1914-

    It was known as " the Lost Generation"
    The theory to psycho-analysis,
    The millennial people
    revolutions happen, culture, religion, change artist, generation of change.
    Literature is a venue for socio-politic-economic-religious discussions and a vehicle for personal thoughts and felling to converted more marked, innovative narrative resources, magical realism,application (ITC)
    The new progress human, economical societies, the isn't construct other future still