Unit 1. History of English Literature

  • 1066

    Old English

    The mixture of the legends of Scandinavia with that of the Anglo and Saxon
  • 1500

    Middle English

    literature based on legendary romances and Tales of Kings
  • English Renaissance

    Elizabethan, Jacobean, Carolina: Much of the literature of this period is emphasized in the translation and elaboration of religious books
  • Puritan

    Literary works such as the Angler emerge
  • Restoration Age

    Literature published in the form of protest against slavery
  • 18th Century

    Journalism comes up with a big impact
  • The Romantic period

    John Keats is considered to be the author with the most recognized in the period "the Romantic period". The readings praises life, nature and love by making use of the melancholy
  • Victorian and Modernist British Literature:

    This period the literature is characterized by dealing with different topics of the Romantic period and there was born other forms of literature
  • Modern Literature

    It publishes in London the literary work directed to the children Peter Pan
  • Contemporary

    Our current literature, a diversity of texts where various forms of expression are explored through writing