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450
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450-1066)
The term Anglo-Saxon comes from the Anglo-Saxon tribes, which were Germanic tribes. This period of literature dates back to the invasion of Celtic England around 450 and ends in 1066 when France conquered England. Some of his works were:
June Manuscript, Exeter Book, Vercelli Book, Cotton Vitellius A XV. Some of his best known writers were:
Caedmon, Bede, Alfred the Great, and Cynewulf. -
1066
Middle English Period (1066–1500)
This time period lasted for almost half a century, beginning in 1066 and ending in 1500. Some of his best known works were:
Piers Plowman, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Some of his best known writers were:
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The Renaissance (1500–1660)
This literary period was also called the "early modern age" period, it was divided into four parts, the Elizabethan Age (1558-1603), the Jacobean Age (1603-1625), the Carolina Age (1625-1649) and the Commonwealth. Period (1649-1660). Some of his best known works were:
Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, Utopia, the Prince and Doctor Faust. Some of the best known authors of it were:
William Shakespeare, Michelangelo, Nicholas Machiavelli, Petrarch -
The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785)
The neoclassical period is also subdivided into three ages, the Restoration (1660-1700), The Age of Augustus (1700-1745) and The Age of Sensitivity (1745-1785). Some of his best known works were:
The travels of Gulliver, Robinson Crusoe, Leisure of my youth, Solaya or the Circassians and Don Sancho García. Some of the best known authors of it were:
Jean de la Fontaine, Daniel Defoe, Alexander Pope, José Cadalso and Vázquez de Andrade. -
The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
There is often a debate about the starting date of romanticism, some claim that it began in 1785 after the age of sensitivity, while others believe that it began in 1789 at the beginning of the French revolution, others believe that it began in 1798 , the year that William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge's book Lyrical Ballads was published. But the time period of this era ends with the passage of the reform bill and the death of Sir Walter Scott. -
The Romantic Period (1785–1832)
Some of his best known works were:
Pride and Prejudice, The Ancient of Days, Wuthering Heights. Some of the best known authors were:
Jane Austen, William Blake, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë. -
The Victorian Period (1832–1901)
This period is named after the reign of Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne in 1837 and lasted until her death in 1901, the period has often been divided into "Early" (1832-1848), "Middle" periods. "(1848-1870) and" Tardía "(1870-1901) or in two phases, that of the Pre-Raphaelites (1848-1860). And that of Aesthetics and decadence (1880-1901). -
The Victorian Period (1832–1901)
Some of her best known works were:
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Crime and Punishment and Middlemarch Some of the most important authors of it were:
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold. -
The Edwardian Period (1901–1914)
This period is named after King Edward VII and stretching from the death of Victoria and the outbreak of the First World War, this was a short period, either in literature or in reign. Some of his most important works were:
Shakespeare's tragedy Some of the most important authors were:
Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox. Ford, Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells and Henry James -
The Georgian Period (1910–1936)
This period refers to the reign of George V, but in some cases the reigns of four other Georges that come from 1714-1830 are also included. Some of the most important works were:
Kaçia adamiani, Glkikhis naamxobi, Torniké eristhavi, Elguzha. Some of the most important authors were:
Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, WH Davies, and Rupert Brooke. -
The Modern Period (1914–?)
This period is traditionally applied in works that were written after the start of the First World War. Some important works were:
Crazy love, Free pages, Songs of life and hope. Some important authors were:
Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, DH Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, EM Forster, and Doris Lessing. -
The Postmodern Period (1945–?)
This period begins around the time WWII ends, many people think this is a direct response to modernism. On the other hand, there are many who claim that this period ended around 1990. Some of the most important works were:
The postmodern condition, The imaginary institution of society, Simulation and simulation, The end of modernity. Some of the most important authors were:
Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks.