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Anglo-Saxon period
The first great work of English literature is Beowulf
"In the story of Beowlf, completely pagan, God appears as an Odino, more powerful and more serene, and does not differ from the other if not as a sedentary Bretwalda of a leader of adventurous bandits and hero" -
Period: 428 to 1066
428-1066
The first great work of English literature is Beowulf.
Invasions in Great Britain, used language is similar to German.
Heroic idealism. Fatalism. Alliteration, there were no rhymes or stanzas -
1066
Medieval Period
Geoffrey Chaucer -
Period: 1066 to 1550
Medieval Period
Norman influence, poetry is based on syllables, rhymes and stanzas. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
Last great work of the middle ages The Canterbury such of Geoffrey Chaucer influenced by literature from France and Italy -
1550
Renaissance
Sir Philip Sidney,
Spencer
Shakespeare -
Period: 1550 to
Renaissance
A time of great changes, changes the vision of the world with the ideas of Copernicus and the discovery of America.
Great Britain, Isabel I golden age of the policy, great number of poets in its court, sir Tomas Waytt I use petrarquistas forms.
The poets become more lyrical.
Love is one of the most recurrent themes: Astrophel and Stella by Sir Philip Sidney. Sonnets by Spencer and Shakespeare.
Shakespeare is noted for his plays: Hamlet (1600) and King Lear (1605). -
William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
"the greatest of writers"
Romeo and Juliet, King Lear, MacBeth, -
Seventeenth century civil war
(1642-51) is reflected the tension in the epic poem Paradise Lost by John Milton. -
Neoclassicism
John Driden,
Alexander Pope,
Swift,
Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding -
Period: to
Neoclassicism
John Driden, Alexander Pope, Swift.
Start of the novel.
Satira in poetry.
Publication of the first newspapers,
Appearance of the first novels. Novels by Daniel Defoe, Samuel Richardson, Henry Fielding, etc. -
Romantic Period
French Revolution, Sir Walter Scott -
Period: to
Romantic Period
Industrial revolution and declaration of the rights of Thomas Pine man.
Poetry rejects the previous period. The Chimmney Sweeper, The Solitary Reaper. Lirical Ballads. Coleridge,
Use of supernatural characters. -
Victorian Period
Charles Dickens, Tennyson, Browning, Arnold rompen -
Charles Dickens (1812-1870)
"He was a master of the narrative genre, which imprinted certain doses of humor and irony, while practicing a sharp social criticism"
Oliver Twist, David Copperfield -
Period: to
Victorian Period
Hobbes and individualism. The Victorian era marks the beginning of a new kind of novel, in which the protagonist has ceased to be the hero and the world described approaches a certain tone of social denunciation.
Novelist: Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, Hard Times.
Victorian poets: Tennyson, Browning or Arnold, bring a more civic and artificial poetry. -
Oscar Wild (1854-1900)
He was a dramatist of the Victorian period.
The Picture of Dorian Gray -
Modernist period
TS Eliot, Molly, Auden, Orwell, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Osborne, james joyce -
Period: to
Modernist period
Literature no longer serves to reproduce reality, the appearance of photography, technology and cinema that replace this feeling.
It is concluded that the traditional novel portrayed a hero doing something, which is not real.
The free indirect style is used: comments of a character are inserted in the voice of the narrator.
Literary artists: Auden, Orwell, Kingsley Amis, Philip Larkin, Osborne, publication of Finnegans IVake by James Joyce in 1939 -
George Orwell (1903-1950)
Animal Farm, 1984 -
Bibliography
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