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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English
It was Anglo-Saxon
When the Germanic tribes invade England, it is characterized as a poetic tradition sung with the accompaniment of harp; it is represented by numerous rerigious works such as the Caedmon Hymn that praises the power of the creator. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
The literature in this period was divided into drama, prose and poem; even religious themes predominate.
Among the best-known poets was Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales. -
Period: 1500 to 1560
English Renaissance
At this moment the printing press is introduced; The Protestant reform came, the issues were not so religious and the reading increases at this time.
Elizabethan Literature:
It is a time of theater and sonnets in prose represented by William Shakespeare, who represents the writers of tragedy and comedy in verse; Among his works are Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and many more.
Also in this Elizabethan movement is Christopher Marlowe, among some of his works: The Life of Edward II . -
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Puritan
The most influential was Oliver Cromwell, a Puritan leader who during this movement produced a lack of drama; since the Puritans opposed the cinema and the theater for moral and religious reasons; among his works is The Letters and Speeches; we also find in this movement Thomas Hobbes with his work Leviathan. -
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Restoration Age
In this era, reason and tolerance triumph over religious and political passion. This time is characterized by an abundance of prose, poetry and comedy. Among its representatives we find John Dryden, with his writings as Absalon and Achitophel; John Locke, with The reasonableness of Christianity and John Milton with his writing Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained. -
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18th Century
Augustan Age
This literature is characterized by its refinement and clarity appear the first novels in English:
Jonathan Swift, with his work Los viajes de Gulliver; Alexander Pope with Essay on May; Daniel Defoe with his work Robinson Crusoe and Samuel Richardson with his novel Pamela.
Age Sen of Sensibility:
This era is characterized by its instinct and feeling, interest in medieval ballads and popular literature.
Here we find Clarissa by Richardson and Tom Jones by Henry fielding's. -
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romantic period
This period is known for the use of feelings, love for nature, for what is natural, for imagination, innovation, spontaneity and for its gothic literature, in dark and somber tones.
Authors: Samuel Taylor Coleridge with "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner"; Willian Wordworth with "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud";
Jane Austen, with "pride and prejudice"; Anne Radcliffe "The Mysteries of Udolpho". -
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VICTORIAN
This period lasted the time when Queen Isabella was on the throne, is characterized by making known the problems of day to day; social and religious problems where the industrial revolution begins.
The most impressive work was "The Theory of Evolution" by Charles Darwin. Other representatives are Alfred Lord Tennyson one of his works "The Lady of Shalott"; and Elizabeth Barrett Browning "sonnets of portugues". -
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Modern Literature
this literature is characterized by its intellectual prose, by reacting against the past, its writings are futuristic and the novelty becomes something ecencial, they are full of satirization to the English society.
Some representatives Aldous Huxley one of his works "The Burning Wheel"; Evelyn Waugh "A snack of blacks". -
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Post Moderns
It is a postwar literature that is intimately linked to the manifestation of art, it is a negation and affirmation of the modernist paradigm; it is characterized by magical realism, the theater of the absurd and political protest.
One of the writers that has stood out is Paul Auster with writings like "Man in the Dark" and The New York Trilogy; another novelist is Siri Hustvedt, one of his novels is Memories of the Future. -
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Contemporary
One of its characteristics is the variety of narrative voices; the subjective representation of time and the exploration of human science where science, fantasy and fission come together.
JK Rowling representatives his work Harry Potter and J. R. R. Tolkien with The Lord of the Rings.