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450
Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450-1066)
Dates back to the invasion of Celtic England (450 B.C) until 1066, the first 300 hundred years had oral literature and the prose was mostly of legal, religious or medical type, Important work such as BEOWULF and the poets Caedmon and Cynewulf. -
1066
Middle English Period (1066-1500)
England had a big cultural and socio economical change and its language into the modern English. In the beginning was mostly of religious nature but after 1350 started the non-religious writings. Works such as "Piers Plowman" , "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.". Writers like Chaucer, Thomas Malory, and Robert Henryson. -
1500
The Renaissance (1500-1660)
Subdivided into 4 parts with main writers such as: the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603): William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon, Edward Spenser, the Jacobean Age (1603–1625) : Michael Drayton, Ben Johnson, the King james translation of the bible, the Caroline Age (1625–1649): John Milton, Robert Burton, George Herbert, and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660): political writer Thomas Hobbes and prose written by Thomas Fuller and Abraham Cowley. -
The Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)
Subdivided into: The Restoration (1660-1700), writings in teather by authors like WIlliam Congreve and John Dryden and satire genre by Samuel Buttler. The Augustan Age, with authors like Alexander Pope, Jonathan swift (Gulliver´s Travels) , poets like Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Daniel defoe (Robinson Crusoe). The Age of sensibility, writers like Samuel Johnson , Edward Burke also occur the literary mode of Neoclassicism and Enlightenment with authors like Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson. -
The Romantic Period (1785-1832)
Started with French Revolution, emphasis on aesthetic beauty, focus on exoticism and history.
The most popular of all ages, works by Coleridge, Lord Byron, Mary Shelley( Frankenstein) -
The Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Time of big issues in society, subdivide into, Early, mid and late periods with authors like: Tomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, prose fiction by Charles Dickens (Oliver twist), Emily Bronte (Wuthering heights) among many others. -
The Edwardian Period (1901-1914)
Named for King Edward VII, revolutionary movements such as post-impressionism, cubism, expressionism,and, futurism.
Novelist such as Joseph Conrad, H. G. Wells ( The Time Machine) and poets, Alfred Noyes and William Buttler Yeats. -
The Georgian Period (1910-1936)
Name after George V.
Georgian poets such as Ralph Hodgson , Ruppert Brooke were common themes and subjects of rural and pastoral nature. -
The Modern Period (1914-?)
Works done after WWI features: Bold experimentation with subject matter , style and form including verse and drama. writers such as: James Joyce, Aldous Huxley, Graham Greene and Dramatists George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett. -
The Postmodern Period (1950-2000)
After WWII Developing the post structuralist literary theory and criticism, self-reflexivity on history and political issues.
Writers as: Anthony Burgess ( A Clock Work Orange), Jhon Fowles, J.K Rowling (Harry Potter and the P´s Stone) -
The Contemporary Period (2000- Present)
Topics about: identity, racism, family and a search for goodness in humanity.
Novels and poetry, short stories, slam poetry, plays
Authors such as Suzanne Collins (The Hunger Games)