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439
Old English _ Anglo Saxon Period
439 - 1066
Term Anglo-Saxon comes from two Germanic tribes: the Angles and the Saxons.
This period begins around the year 430 and ends in 1066. -
439
Topics and Poets_ Anglo Saxon
Topics in this period: Translations about legal and medical topics. Poets :
Caedmon his style was lyric and the main work was "Caedmon Hymn" Cynewulf his style was religious and the main works was "The Fates of the Apostles", "The Ascension" and "Juliana". Beowulf It is an anonymous work from this period and was written in a heroic style. -
1066
Middle English Period ( 1066 – 1500)
Middle English period ( 1066 – 1500)
The religion had important and specific focus in the literature. -
1066
Topics and Poets Middle English
Topics in the Middle English were religious in nature; but, from about 1350 onward, secular literature began to rise.
Topics like Biblie stories, lives of the saints, and sermons. Poets:
Geoffrey Chaucer: "The Canterbury Tales"
Thomas Malory: "The death of Arturo"
Robert Henryson "Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian" -
1500
The Renaissence (1500 – 1600)
The Renaissence (1500 – 1600)
Called Early Modern Period, taking into account it´s four subdivided ages. Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), the Jacobean Age (1603–1625), the Caroline Age (1625–1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660). -
1558
Renaissance_ Elizabethan Age (1558–1603)
Was the golden age of English drama. Poets:
Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, and William Shakespeare. -
The Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)
The Neoclassical Period (1600-1785)
This Period is subdivided into ages, including The Restoration (1660–1700), The Augustan Age (1700–1745), and The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785). -
Renaissance_ The Jacobean Age (1603–1625),
Is named for the reign of James I.
Poets: John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson, and Lady Mary Wroth. The King James translation of the Bible also appeared during the Jacobean Age. -
Renaissence Caroline Age (1625–1649)
The Caroline Age covers the reign of Charles I (“Carolus”). Poets: John Milton, Robert Burton, and George Herbert -
Renaissance _The Commonwealth Period (1649–1660).
Was so named for the period between the end of the English Civil War and the restoration of the Stuart monarchy. Poets:
Thomas Fuller,
Abraham Cowley,
Andrew Marvell -
Neoclassical_The Restoration Age (1660–1700),
It was about comedies and satires. Poets:
William Congreve
John Dryden
Samuel Butler
Aphra Behn
John Bunyan
John Locke -
Neoclassical_The Augustan Age (1700–1745)
Imitations of comedies. Poets:
Alexander Pope a
Jonathan Swift
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Daniel Defoe -
Neoclassical _The Age of Sensibility (1745–1785).
Sometimes referred to as the Age of Johnson and the topics had a critical and literary mode view. Poets
Edmund Burke
Edward Gibbon
Hester Lynch Thrale
James Boswell
Samuel Johnson -
The Romantic Period ( 1785 – 1832)
The Romantic Period ( 1785 – 1832)
It was wellknow of the literature English Period. -
Topics and Poets Romantic
This era includes the works of such juggernauts as Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen, and Mary Shelley. -
The Victorian Period (1832_ 1901)
The Victorian Period (1832_ 1901)
This period is named for the reign of Queen Victoria. The Victorian period is in strong contention with the Romantic period for being the most popular, influential, and prolific period in all of English literature. -
Topics and Poets Victorian
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold. -
Topics and Poets Edwardian
Poets:
Joseph Conrad
Ford Madox Ford
Rudyard Kipling
H.G. Wells
Henry James -
The Edwardian Period ( 1901 – 1914)
The Edwardian Period ( 1901 – 1914)
Is named for King Edward VII and covers the period between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I. -
The Georgian Period (1910 -1936)
The Georgian Period (1910 -1936)
The Georgian period usually refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936) but sometimes also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714–1830. -
Topics and Poets Georgian
Topics:
Rural and pastoral in nature Poets
Ralph Hodgson
John Masefield
W.H. Davies
Rupert Brooke -
The Modern Period ( 1914 – 1950)
The Modern Period ( 1914 – 1950)
The modern period traditionally applies to works written after the start of World War I. -
Topics and Poets Modern
The style in this period are narrative, verse and drama. Poets
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
Aldous Huxley
D.H. Lawrence
Joseph Conrad
Dorothy Richardson
Graham Greene -
The postmoderm Period (1945- 2000)
The postmoderm Period (1945- 2000)
The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended. -
Topics and Poets Postmodern
Poets: Samuel Beckett
Joseph Heller
Anthony Burgess
John Fowles
Penelope M -
The Contemporary Period ( 2000 -
The Contemporary Period ( 2000 -
Cover topics about existentialism and about search of the identity. -
Topics and Poets Contemporary
Topics:
Point of views about social, economic and political views. Writers
Ian McEvan “First Love, Last Rites”
David Mitchell “Ghostwritten”