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Old English literature refers to poetry and prose written in Old English in early medieval England.
Old English literature, also called Anglo-Saxon literature, literature written in Old English c. 650–c. 1100. For a description of this period in the context of the history of English literature, see English literature: The Old English period. -
The Middle English period sees a great transition in the language, culture and way of life of England and results in what we can recognize today as a form of "modern" English.
This period is home to such characters as Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson. Notable works include "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight". -
The "Early Modern Age" period, but here we retain the historically familiar term "Renaissance"Consider the contributions of female authors to English literature during the 16th and 17th centuries
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The Restoration was characterized by a break with the past and it introduced innovations. The most representative poet was Ben Johnson who put the bases of the artistic movement of Neo Classicism. The true spirit of Restoration was satiric; the theatre had a renovation, also the actors roles were defined; in fact the male characters were played by men and female roles by women. -
- Romanticism is a literary movement spanning roughly 1790–1850.
- The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on individual experience, an idealization of women, and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.
- Prominent Romantic writers include John Keats, William Wordsworth, Percy Bysshe Shelley, and Mary Shelley..
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Victorian literature refers to English literature during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901). The 19th century is widely considered to be the Golden Age of English Literature, especially for British novels. It was in the Victorian era that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.
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It was a short period (and a short reign for Edward VII), the era includes incredible classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox. Ford, Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells and Henry James (who was born in the United States but spent most of his writing career in England); notable poets such as Alfred Noyes and William Butler Yeats; and playwrights like James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy. -
Modernism is a major literary movement of the first part of the twentieth century. The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature.
Postmodernism is a reaction to the modernist view. In terms of literature, it is characterised by the idea of experimentation and a rejection of conventional forms of literature. Postmodernists believe that there is no “high” art; some works of creativity are not more valuable or artistic than others. -
It is characterized by the advance and expansion of digitisation and the control of information on a global scale.
1. Ian McEwan, (1984) wrote: Expiation in 2001
2. Graham Swift ( 1949) wrote: Daylight in 2003.
J.K Rowing, English writer (1965) wrote her famous and well known Harry Potter saga between 1997 and 2007.
