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The literary History

By Jonathan Reina
  • Period Neoclasical Literary (1600-1785)
    1601 BCE

    Period Neoclasical Literary (1600-1785)

    subdividided into ages Restoration.
    Topic about the puritanical age.
    Restoration comedies( comedies of manner)
    play wrote like William Congreve and John Dryden, Daniel Defoe.
  • Period Renaissance literary (1500-1660)
    1501 BCE

    Period Renaissance literary (1500-1660)

    This period were subdivided into four part:
    Elizabeth Age (1558-1603) It was the Golden age of english Drama.
    some figures were:willam shakespeare, Edmund Spencer,Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe.
    step second,The Jacobean Age -(1603-1625)
    It's name for the reing of James I. step third: The Caroline Age covers the reing of charles I. step four: The common wealth period ended of the english civil war and the restorationof the stuart monarchy.
  • Period Old English (450-1066)
    1450 BCE

    Period Old English (450-1066)

    Anglo-saxon
    Topics about legal, medical,Religious.
    works, (Beowfulf by poets Caedmon and Cynewulf)
  • Period Middle English Literature (1066-1500)
    1066

    Period Middle English Literature (1066-1500)

    The most popular is Epic poem "Beowulf", " The canterbury tale" wrote by Geoffrey Chaucer.
  • Period Romantic literary (1785-1832)

    Period Romantic literary (1785-1832)

    (Jhon Keats)
    , the Rime of the ancient Mariner, Wrote by samuel Taylor Coleridge.
    Topic "Dissapointting and melancholy"
  • Period Victorian literary (1832-1906)

    Period Victorian literary (1832-1906)

    Poets: Roberth and Elizabeth Barret Browning.
    Prose: Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, George Eliot(Mary Ann Evans).
    Reing of Queen Victory.
    Topic: Great social , Religious, Intelectual and economic issues, Voting rights.
  • Period Edwardian (1901-1914)

    Period Edwardian (1901-1914)

    Named by King Edward VII.
    The outbreak of world war I.
    Clasic novelist such as Joseph Conrad, ford Madox,Henrry James.
    Poets: Alfred Noyes and William Buttler Yeats.
    Dramatist: James Barrie,George Bernard, Shaw and John Galsworthy.
  • The Georgian Period (1910-1936)

    The Georgian Period (1910-1936)

    Reign of George V
    Georgian Poetry anthologized by Edward March.
    Topic. Rural or Pastoral in nature.
    the Georgian poets; Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield. W.H Davies and Rupert Brooke, Jane Austen.
  • Modernist English Literature (1914-1945)

    Modernist English Literature (1914-1945)

    Workers William Butler Yeats, Virginia Wolfe, James Joyce and Lawrence.
    topic. Wrote about of Death and disillusionment.
    authors : Rupert Brooke "other poems, the proyect Gutenberg E-book of 1915"
  • The Postmodern Period (1945-until nowadays)

    The Postmodern Period (1945-until nowadays)

    Begins with the world war II ended.
    somewriters were: Smuel Becket, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess,John Fowles,Lain Banks.
    characteristics.
    Alienation of individual, feelings of anxiety, multiple Genres,Irony, satire.
    works include: something Happned, Good as Gold,by Joseph Heller.