English literature

ENGLISH LITERATURE

  • 450

    The Old English period

    The Old English period
    The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries.
  • Period: 450 to 1066

    Middle Ages

  • 1066

    Anglo saxon literature

    Anglo saxon literature
    -from the middle of the 5th century until the Norman conquest of 1066.
    -the epic poetry
    -hagiography
    -sermons
    -translations of the Bible
    -legal works
    -chronicles
    -conjurations
  • Period: 1400 to 1476

    Medieval English

  • 1500

    Medieval Period

    Medieval Period
    Witness the flourishing of literature, especially -the drama
    -secular Lyrics
    -Verse
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Renaissance

  • Renaissance

    Renaissance
    classical mythology
    understanding of the world
    Learning and exploration of new knowledge in Astrology, Astronomy, Mathematics.
    And introduction to religious literature
  • Period: to

    The Neoclassical Period

  • Neoclassical

    Neoclassical
    -Classical Art
    -Culture of ancient Greece and Rome
    -Materialism and Empirical Science.
    -Drama
  • Period: to

    Romanticism

  • Romanticism

    Romanticism
    The Romantic period was one of major social change in England and Wales.
    Among the best known authors are:
    -Charles Dickens
    -William Makepeace
    -George Bernarn Shaw.
  • Period: to

    Victorian literature

  • Victorian literature

    Victorian literature
    -Sage writing developed as a new literary genre in which the author sought "to express notions about the world, man's situation in it, and how he should live."
    -English novel and Novel
    -American novel (From Romanticism to realism)
    -Genre fiction
    -Children's literature
  • Period: to

    20th century

  • Modernism

    Modernism
    -The novel
    -Drama: An important cultural movement in the British theatre.
    -Poetry
    -Literature from the Commonwealth of Nations
    -Genre fiction
  • Period: to

    Modern Period

    The las generation.
    Currently Literature.
    -Philosophy.