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The chronological overview of English literature

  • 1. Old English  (450–1066)
    450 BCE

    1. Old English (450–1066)

    Start with the Anglo -Saxon invasion of England 450
    End with norman France conquered England. Literature Feature: Oral literature, prose (religious and medical topics). However, authors as Caedmon and Cynewulf were important
  • 2. Middle English Period
    1066

    2. Middle English Period

    The end of the Anglo-Saxon hierarchy
    The emergence of the Twelfth Century Renaissance and a huge transition of the language, culture, and lifestyle of England. Literature continues to focus on Medicine and Religious topics.
  • Middle English Period
    1350

    Middle English Period

    Literature started to rise due to Important authors as Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson.
    The characteristics of the literary works written did not change radically until the effects of the Renaissance
  • 3. The Renaissance
    1500

    3. The Renaissance

    The end of war Roses with Henry Tudor on the throne. This time was divided into 4 periods.
  • Period: 1558 to

    The Renaissance (Elizabethan Period)

    It is considered the gold period.
    Elizabeth Saved England from Spanish Invasions. Suddenly, become a dark tone the literary expression, especially in drama.
    Noteworthy figures appear as Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser and the started of William Shakespeare
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    The Renaissance (Jacobean Period )

    Reign of James I. He translated the bible.
    The literature was darkly questioning, In regards to the prose, a group of writers displayed a new toughness and flexibility of style. William Shakespeare’s greatest tragedies. Other remarkable figures include Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth
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    The renaissance (Caroline period)

    This is an age of poetry of three kinds: Metaphysical, Cavalier and Puritan. John Milton, George Herbert, Robert Herrick were the remarkable writers of the age.
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    The Renaissance (Commonwealth Period)

    It was the period under Cromwell's Puritan dictatorship of Oliver Cromwell. Period between the end of Civil war and the restauration of Stuar Monarchy
    The theater were closed and the Drama Suffered. Writers as Thomas Fullet and Abraham Cowley appeared. Also, appear john Milton and Thomas Hobbes as political writers
  • 4. The Neoclassical Period

    4. The Neoclassical Period

    The emphasis on self-reflection meant that genres like diaries, letters, and essays were more popular. In the same way the New social fluidity made the newspaper and periodical, the novel were a popular , an extensive public audience. The battles between Whigs and Tories was the most significant age for literature influencing politics in English literary history.
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    The Neoclassical (The Restoration period)

    Recover of the teacher and restoration of Comedies with writters as William Congreve and John Dryden
    Satire become popular with fugureas as Samuel Butler, John Bunyan, and John Locke
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    The Neoclassical (The The Augustan Age)

    The name Augustan Age also is applied to a “classical” period in the literature, in the 18th century in England.
    Appear as notable poet Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Who challenged stereotypically female roles.
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    The neoclassical (The Age of Sensibility)

    First ideas of Neoclassicism by the hand of Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, and, of course, Samuel Johnson
    Particular worldview shared by many intellectuals, were championed during this age. Appear the poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy.
  • 5. The Romantic Period

    5. The Romantic Period

    This period could have two stars immediately after Sensibility age or followed of the French Revolution also, end with the death of Sir Walter.
    American Literature has its own Romantic Period about 1830-1850.
    Transcendentalists include Emerson and Thoreau.
    The most popular and well-known of all literary includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley
  • 6. The Victorian Period

    6. The Victorian Period

    This period is named for the reign of Queen Victoria. It was a time of great social, religious, intellectual, and economic issues. Poets of this time include Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, and Matthew Arnold, among others. Respecting, the prose fiction found its place under the auspices of Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell. The end of the Period is marked "the Decadence" in the writings of Walter Pater and Oscar Wilde.
  • 7. The Edwardian Period

    7. The Edwardian Period

    It is a period of Victoria’s death and the start of World War I. it marked the end of the longest reign to British history. Between the writers created protagonists who looked introspectively, and a critical about the moralism and technological advances of the previous. This period includes incredible classic novelists such as Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte. Also, remarkable poets such as Alfred Noyes
  • 8. The Georgian Period

    8. The Georgian Period

    The Georgian period usually refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936). The Literature involve topics as rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and traditionally rather than with passion The Georgian poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.Georgian poetry today is typically considered to be the works of minor poets anthologized by Edward Marsh.
  • 9. Modern Period

    9. Modern Period

    The modern period applies to works written after the start of World War I. The features include the experimentation with different style, and form in the narrative, verse, and drama. Also, new Criticism appeared, showing the work of Woolf, Eliot, William Empson. Between the most remarkable writers of this period include the novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence,
  • 10. The Postmodern Period

    10. The Postmodern Period

    The postmodern period begins with the World War II was end. Poststructuralist literary theory and criticism developed during this time. In addition, modern writers, poets, and playwrights experimented with metafiction and fragmented poetry Some notable writers of the period include Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. Many postmodern authors wrote during the modern period as well.