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450
Old English(Anglo-Saxon) Period
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: 450 to 1066
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period
The invasion of the Angles and the Saxons german tribes To the Celtic England circa 450.
The literary works in this age had graphic and crude sexual content
-Beowulf an epic poem: A series of adventure tales about a people called the Geats and an embattled hero named Beowulf.
-Geoffrey Chaucer "The Canterbury Tales", series of stories told by different narrators that offers a snapshot of late medieval cultural diversity. -
1066
Middle English Period
William Langland -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Period
The big transition in the language, culture, and lifestyle of England
Much of the writings were religious in nature and from about 1350 onward, secular literature began to rise.
-Piers Plowman :A poem that combine theological allegory and social satire by William Langland
-Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: A poem that combine two types of folks motifs, the beheading game and the exchange of winnings by Gawain Poet -
1500
The Renaissance
William Shakespeare -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
The revival of learning, the gradual enliigthnment of human mind.
Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), golden age of English drama. William Shakespeare (comedies, tragedis, histories)(El mercader de Venecia)Jacobean Age (1603–1625), named for the reign of James I. John Donne (Holy sonet)
Caroline Age (1625–1649), covers the reign of Charles I
John Milton (Paradise lost)
Commonwealth Period (1649–1660). the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy -
The Neoclassical Period
Alexander Pope -
Period: to
The Neoclassical Period
The age of reason.
Subdivided into ages:
The Restoration (1660–1700), Introduce the comedy of manner William Congreve (The old Bachelor)
The Augustan Age (1700–1745), Introduce poetry of personal exploration Alexander Pope,(The Rape of the Lock) Jonathan Swift An Argument Against Abolishing Christianity)
The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785). introducing emotional quality Edmund Burke, ( A Vindication of Natural Society: A View of the Miseries and Evils Arising to Mankind) -
The Romantic Period
Lord Byron -
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The Romantic Period
Artistic, literary and Intellectual movement Authors wrote about life, love and nature. Was a reponse against monarchy and political norms
John Keats( Ode to a Nightingale)
Lord Byron (Don juan)
William Wordsworth (The world is too much with us, late and soon,)
Samuel T. Coleridge(The Rime of the Ancient Mariner)
The gothic era (1786-1800)Characterized by expressions of horror, supernatural elements, death
Bram Stoker (Dracula)
Mary Shally (Frankestein)
Edgar Allan Poe(The crow) -
The Victorian Period
Charles Dickens -
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The Victorian Period
The time of great social, religious, intellectual, and economic issues,
Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnets from the Portuguese"
Alfred Lord Tennyson "Ulysses"
Charles Dickens"Oliver Twist" -
The Edwardian Period
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The Edwardian Period
This period is named for King Edward VII
Joseph Conrad "Heart of darkness"
Ford Madox Ford "The good soldier"
Alfred Noyes "The Highwayman (poem)"
James Barrie "Peter Pan" -
The Georgian Period
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The Georgian Period
Named for the reign of George V (1910–1936) also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714–1830.
Georgian poetry tends to focus on rural or pastoral in nature.Treaded delicately and traditionally.
-Ralph Hodgson "The song of honour"
-Rupert Brooke "The soldier"
-Edward Marsh "Georgian Poetry: A Compilation of Georgian Poetry, 1911-22" -
The Modern Period
Virginia Woolf -
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The Modern Period
Common features include bold experimentation with subject matter, style, and form, encompassing narrative, verse, and drama.
-Virginia Woolf "The Waves"
-Robert Graves "Claudius the god"
-Caryl Churchill."Top girl"
-Dylan Thomas "Do not go gentle into that good night -
The Postmodern Period
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The Postmodern Period
Poststructuralist literary theory and criticism developed during this time.
-Samuel Beckett "Waiting for Godot"
-Penelope M. Lively "Moon Tiger"
-Joseph Heller "Closing time"
-Iain Banks. " Excession"