Literature

Task 2 Chronological overview

  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Old English

    Anglo Saxon period, prose
    Caedmon, Cynewulf
  • Period: 1066 to 1500

    Middle English Period

    Religious writings
    Chaucer, Piers Plawman
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Renaissance

    Also called "Early Modern"
    divided in 4 parts:
    Elizabethan, Jacobean, Caroline and Commonwealth age
  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical

    Theater, comedies
    Also divided in 3 ages
    Restoration, Augustan and Sensibility age
    Willian Congreve, John Dryden
  • Period: to

    The Romantic period

    Wordsworth, Coleridge, Wlliam Blake
    There was a period also called the Gothic era
  • Period: to

    The Victorian period

    Named for the reign of Queen Victoria.
    Also divided into "early-mid and late periods"
    Charles Dickens, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Period: to

    The Edwardian Period

    Named for King Edward VII
    Novelists: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford
  • Period: to

    The Georgian Period

    It refers to the reign of George V , but also other successors.
    Poetry
    Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield
  • Period: to

    The Modern Period

    It applies to works written after the World War I
    Some novelists: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad
    The end date is not clear
  • Period: to

    The Postmodern Period

    It began by the end of World War II
    Poststructuralist literary theory and criticism developed during this time.