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450
Old English (Anglo- Saxon) Period (450-1066)
Anglo Saxon comes from two Germanic tribes: The Angles and the Saxons
This era ends in 1066
There was oral literature and prose. A lot of the prose during this time was a translation on the legal, medical or religious in nature.
Works, such as Beowulf
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1066
Middle English Period (1066-1500)
Began with the Norman Conquest in 1966 and ends in the fifteenth century. There are two ages: the period between 1066 and 1340 called "Anglo-Norman" and the period from 1340 to 1400 called "age of chaucer"
Sees a huge a transition in the language, culture and lifestyle of England and results in "modern" English
Writers: Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson
Works: "Piers Plowman" and "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" -
1500
The Renaissance (1500-1660) Early modern
Divided into four parts:
The Elizabethan Age (1558–1603). Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Walter Raleigh, and, William Shakespeare "Romeo and Juliet."
the Jacobean Age (1603–1625). John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth.
the Caroline Age (1625–1649). John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert
the Commonwealth Period (1649–16609). John Milton, Thomas Hobbes, Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell -
The Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)
The Restoration (1660–1700) The Restoration Comedies (Fashion Comedies) William Congreve and John Dryden
writers: Aphra Behn, John Bunyan, and John Locke
The Augustan Age (1700–1745), was the time of Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift
The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785). Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, and Samuel Johnson.
Novelists: Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett, and Laurence Sterne as well the poets William Cowper and Thomas Percy. -
The romantic Period (1785-1832)
The time period ends with the passage of the Reform Bill
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love, and nature
This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley
There is also a minor period, also quite popular (between 1786–1800), called the Gothic era
Writers: Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe, and William Beckford -
The Victorian period (1832-1901)
This period is named for the reign of Queen Victoria
divided into three stages: The period “Early” (1832–1848), “Mid” (1848–1870), and “Late” (1870–1901) periods or into two phases
Pre-Raphaelites (1848–1860), Aestheticism and Decadence (1880–1901).
Poets: Elizabeth Barrett "The Cry of the Children",
Robert Louis "the strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde"
others poets: Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, and Walter Pater. -
The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)
The period is named for King Edward VII
covers the period between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I in 1914, it is the last period of British history.
Novelists
Joseph Conrad "Nostromo"
Ford Madox Ford,
Rudyard Kipling,
H.G. Wells,
Henry James "The Sacred Fountain".
Poets:
Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman"
William Butler Yeats "The Second Coming"
Dramatists:
James Barrie "The Little White Bird"
George Bernard Shaw,
John Galsworthy "The Silver Box" -
The Georgian Period (1910–1936)
Refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936) but sometimes also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714–1830.
The themes tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and in a traditional way rather than with passion or experimentation
Poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.
"The Soldier" is a poem written by Rupert Brooke.
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The Modern Period (1914– 1945)
Works wrote after the start of World War
Bold experimentation with the theme, style, and form, narrative, verse, and drama
Novelists Joyce; Virginia Woolf; Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing
Poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves
Dramatists Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill -
The Postmodern Period (1945–2000 Present)
It begins about the time that World War II ended. Some say the period ended around 1990.
The authors began to describe everyday life and new technologies.
Some notable writers of the period include
Samuel Becket t- "Molloy"
Anthony Burgess - "A vision of Battlements"
John Fowles - "The collector"
Penelope M. Lively - "The Road to Lichfield"
Iain Banks - "The Wasp Factory"
Joseph Heller - "Something Happened"
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Period Contemporary period 2000 to “present”
When we talk about contemporary literature, we are talking about literature that is being written in the now about the now. Includes all literary events that have occurred since the posmodernidad.
is recognized for its historically postmodern content. This is related to the era of computers, robotics, mobile phones, globalization, among others.