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Poems and adventure tales//they inherited language
The United kingdom existed several dialects before English:
Nurthumbrian: to the north of the kingdom
Kentish: southern of the kingdom }
West saxon: spoken to western part of the country
Mercian: spoke to the east of the country
They ended up to current English. Baewulf-unknown/ Caedmon's "Hymn"-Caedmon/ The Fates of the Apostles- Cynewulf/ -
this is the period when the clerical inmerision in politicsLanguage, Writers: writer were Anynonimous due to the fact of not sharing the catholic faith. Secular writing.
The topics were related to culture, and lifestyle of England, allegorical fables, verse and secular lyrics. Piers Plowman- William Langland// Sir Gawain and the Green Knight- unknown// The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian -Robert Henryson// Le Morte d'Arthur -Thomas Malory/ The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer -
The reinassense: is caracterized by faith and humanism. There’s a revolucionary fact: explorers and scientific method. It is commonly split into 4 periods
This is the period of science, skepticism, comedy, drama and tragedy -
The golden age of drama.// Taburlaine- Christopher Marlowe//
Scientific method-Francis Bacon//
Fowre Hymnes-Edmund Spenser//
The Lie- Sir Walter Raleigh//
Romeo and Juliet -William Shakespeare//. -
The neoclassical period: inspired of the classical art of romans and greeks, pedigrins, benefited from colonization and inmigration of pilgrims and irish communities, Literary costumbrismo. Imitation of Romans and Greeks' style Charaterized by order accuracy and structure. This is the restoration of the drama topic It is commonly split in 3 ages -
Due to James I The king's translation of the bible//
Biathanatos- John Donne//
Hamlet-Shakespeare//
The Harmony of the Church- Michael Drayton//
The White Devil - John Webster//
The Tragedy of Mariam- Elizabeth Cary//
Every Man in His Humour- Ben Jonson//
Love's Victory- Lady Mary Wroth// -
Reign of Charles I// Paradise Lost- John Milton//
The Anatomy of Melancholy- Robert Burton//
Temple- George Herbert// -
End of Enlglish civil war Worthies of England- Thomas Fuller,
The Four Ages of England,- Abraham Cowley
To His Coy Mistress- Andrew Marvell -
Comedy and Satire The Old Bachelor -William Congreve
Works of Virgil- John Dryden
A Room of One's Own-Aphra Behn
The Pilgrim's Progress-John Bunyan
A Letter Concerning Toleration- John Locke. -
Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock//
Jonathan Swift,- A Tale of a Tub// -
London-Edmund Burke
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire-Edward Gibbon
Anecdotes of the Late Samuel Johnson-Hester Lynch Thrale
The Cub at Newmarket[-James Boswell
The Gentleman's Magazine-Samuel Johnson. -
Mainly categorized by nature of the human being, a lot of relevance to thoughts and exteriorization. Glorification to the term of “woman” as a muse. Pseudonym of women. The topics were: Poems, verse, lyric, life, love and nature of human.// Ode to a Nightingale-John Keats//
The Prelude- William Wordsworth// -
It is categorized by : ploriferation of novel and women The topics were: Love poems, novels and stories.//
Robert Louis Stevenson-The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde//
The Wanderings of Oisin- William Butler Yeats//
In the Bleak Midwinter-Christina Rossetti// -
Works witten after WWI
Encompassing narrative, verse, drama, individualism, experimentation, symbolism, absurdity and formalism and relativism. Ulysses-James Joyce//
To the Lighthouse-Virginia Woolf//
The Perennial Philosophy -Aldous Huxley// -
Begins near the end of WWII Literary theory and criticism. Dream of Fair to Middling Women -Samuel Beckett
We Bombed in New Haven-Joseph Heller
The Observer -Anthony Burgess -
Nowadays literature
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