English literature

By yenifer martinez
  • 450 BCE

    OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: 450 A.D. – 1066

    OLD ENGLISH LITERATURE: 450 A.D. – 1066
    43-410: Roman Period
    43-420: Roman invasion and occupation of Britain
    410: Last Romans leave Britain, recalled to Rome by barbarian invasions
    450-1066: Old English Period
    Ca. 450: Anglo Saxons invade and conquer the Britons
    597: St. Augustine arrives in Kent, beginning conversion of Anglo-Saxons to Christianity
    871-899: Reign of King Alfred “the Great,” who quelled Viking invaders, established power over other kings in England, and promoted books and learning.
  • Period: 450 to

    English literature

  • 1066

    THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1066-1500)

    THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (1066-1500)
    The English parliament was established in 1295. ii. Crusade, the religious battle between Muslims and Christian took place in between 11th and 13thcentury. iii. Magna Charta, the charter which limited the power of the monarchs was passed on 15th June, 1215. iv. In 1362 English was declared to be the language of law and courts. v. The feudal system which was very strong broke up after the Black Death, plague in 1348-49.
  • 1500

    THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1500-1660)

    THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD (1500-1660)
    Tudor/Sixteenth Century Early Modern Literature, 1485-1603. Jacobian/Early Seventeenth-Century Early Modern Literature, 1603-1660 Shakespeare (1564-1616) was among the most prominent poets and authors who ever lived (E-Notes.com 2011).
    Othello, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, The Winter's Tale, Troilus and Cressida,
  • 1500

    THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1500-1660)

    THE ROMANTIC PERIOD (1500-1660)
    Lord Byron (1757 – 1827) classic poetry collections Child’s Harold’s Pilgrimage and Don Juan William Blake (1782 – 1824) was a poet, painter, visionary mystic, and engraver. His early poems Blake wrote at the age of 12. William Wordsworth 1770-1850 British Romantic poet from Grasmere, Lake District. Wordsworth encapsulated man’s mystic relationship with nature John Keats (1795 – 1821) ‘Poems’, came out in 1817. In 1820 he published ‘Lamia and Other Poems’,

  • THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD (1660-1785)

    THE NEOCLASSICAL PERIOD (1660-1785)
    Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)- Gulliver’s Travels
    Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) - Robinson Crusoe
    John Milton (1608-1674) - Paradise Lost
    Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) - Sinners in the
    Hands of an Angry God

  • THE VISTORIAN PERIOD (1832-1901)

    THE VISTORIAN PERIOD (1832-1901)
    Anthony Trollope, The Warden (1855) (Penguin Classics). Elizabeth Gaskell, North, and South (1855). the ‘factory novel’ bandwagon (Oxford World’s Classics) by Gaskell, Elizabeth (2008). Anne Brontë, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848). The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Penguin Classics) by Bront?, Anne ( 1996 ) Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone (1868) short history of detective fiction The Moonstone (Oxford World’s Classics) by Collins. Wilkie ( 2008 ) Paperback.

  • THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD ( 1901-1914)

    THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD ( 1901-1914)
    Beatrix Potter -The Tale of Peter Rabbit, one of the best-selling children’s books of all time, was written and illustrated, printed privately in 1901 and commercially published in 1902. Bradley‘sShakespearean Tragedy (1904). Mass audience newspapers, controlled by press tycoons such as the Harmsworth brothers, Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe, and Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, became increasingly important

  • THE GEORGIAN PERIOD (1914-1936)

    THE GEORGIAN PERIOD (1914-1936)
    Rupert Chawner Brooke English war poet 3 August 1887 (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images) Virginia Woolf (Adeline Virginia Stephen; Londres, Reino Unido, 1882 - Lewes, id., 1941) Escritora británica. El nombre de Virginia Woolf figura junto con el de James Joyce, Thomas Mann o Franz Kafka entre los grandes renovadores de la novela moderna La señora Dalloway (1925), Al faro (1927) o Las olas (1931)

  • THE MODERM PERIOD (1936-1950)

    THE MODERM PERIOD (1936-1950)
    David Herbert Lawrence (1885-1930) – Sons and Lovers
    James Joyce (1882- 1941) Ulysses
    Thomas Stearns Eliot (1888- 1965) Murder in the Cathedral
    George Bernard Shaw (1856- 1950) Mrs. Warrant’ Profession
    William Butler Yeats (1865- 1939) The Land of Heart’s Desire
    John Galaworthy (1867- 1933) The Man of Property

  • THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (1950-2000)

    THE POSTMODERN PERIOD (1950-2000)
    Tristram Shandy (1759-1767), Sterne commented on his own fiction-making. John Barth’s The Sot-Weed Factor (1960) and Robert Coover’s The Public Burning (1977). In The Public Burning, narrated in part by Richard M. Nixon Kurt Vonnegut’s celebrated novel Slaughterhouse-Five: Or, The Children’s Crusade, a Duty-Dance with Death (1969) Perhaps the quintessential postmodernist novel is William S. Burroughs’s controversial Naked Lunch (1959).

  • THE CONTEMPORARY PEIOD (2000 PRESENT)

    THE CONTEMPORARY PEIOD (2000 PRESENT)
    Mockingjay is a 2010 science fiction novel by American author Suzanne Collins. It is chronologically the last installment of The Hunger Games series. J. K. Rowling, 2013 The Cuckoo's Calling is a 2013 crime fiction Cormoran Strike series of detective novels and was followed by The Silkworm in 2014, Career of Evil in 2015, Lethal White in 2018 and Troubled Blood in 2020