Timeline for English literature

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  • Old English period or Anglo-Saxon period
    450

    Old English period or Anglo-Saxon period

    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/
  • Middle English Period
    1066

    Middle English Period

    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 Renaissance or early modern period
    1500

    The Renaissance or early modern period

    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
  • Period: 1558 to

    The Elizabethan Age

    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

    The Neoclassical Period

    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
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    The Jacobean Age

    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//
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    The Caroline Age

    Reign of Charles I// Paradise Lost- John Milton//
    The Anatomy of Melancholy- Robert Burton//
    Temple- George Herbert//
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    The Commonwealth age

    End of Enlglish civil war Worthies of England- Thomas Fuller,
    The Four Ages of England,- Abraham Cowley
    To His Coy Mistress- Andrew Marvell
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    The Restoration Age

    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.
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    The Augustan Age

    Alexander Pope- The Rape of the Lock//
    Jonathan Swift,- A Tale of a Tub//
  • Period: to

    The Age of Sensibility

    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.
  • The Romantic Period

    The Romantic Period

    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//
  • The Victorian Period

    The Victorian Period

    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//
  • The Modern Period

    The Modern Period

    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//
  • The Postmodern Period

    The Postmodern Period

    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
  • Contemporary period

    Contemporary period

    Nowadays literature

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