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450
The Old English period
The Angles, Saxons, and Jutes who invaded Britain in the 5th and 6th centuries. -
Period: 450 to 1066
Middle Ages
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1066
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
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1500
Medieval Period
Witness the flourishing of literature, especially -the drama
-secular Lyrics
-Verse -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance
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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
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Neoclassical
-Classical Art
-Culture of ancient Greece and Rome
-Materialism and Empirical Science.
-Drama -
Period: to
Romanticism
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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
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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
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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.