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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English period
In this period several events occurred, one of them is the attack and the conquest of the Celtic England area by "a tribe Germanic settlers who were a mixture of people from the north of Germany, Denmark and the north of Holland" (Socorro Independent School District).
It can be said, that this was a warrior society driven by courage, honor and glory, and a large part of this Anglo-Saxon society was dedicated to agriculture -
670
Poets
At this period two great poets Caedmon and Cynewulf emerged who contributed to the literary writing of that time, their writing was done in their own language, that is, of the Anglo-Saxons, everything revolved around religion. Their faith was based on the pagan gods -
790
Angle-land or England
“Settled by the Anglo-Saxons, the new part of Britain took on a new name: Angle-land or England” (Socorro Independent School District). In 790 a tribe of Vikings took more than half of Great Britain, finally they were defeated por Alfred the Great, a West Saxon King. -
Period: 1065 to 1500
Middle English
In this period, the transition from Old English to Middle English begins, through the conquest of Normandy when William the Conqueror (Duke of Normandy and, later, William I of England) (The history of english) Great Britain was taken, from its bases located on the note of France -
1066
Battle of Hastings
Finally, “the Norman Conquest/The Battle of Hastings, ended the Anglo-Saxon dominance in England. William the conqueror of Normandy led the last successful invasion of Britain” (Socorro Independent School District). -
1100
Anglo-Saxon language
After the Normandy conquest the writing of the Anglo-Saxon language continued its course in some monasteries
“The Anglo Saxon language went through a gradual transition into Middle English” (Simone per la scuola) -
1330
Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower
In the second half of the fourteenth century Geoffrey Chaucer and John Gower make their appearance, which did great works regarding religious and satirical poems such as "Piers Plowman". Likewise, the most famous prose romance was written by “Thomas Malory called Le Morte d'Arthur” (Simone per la scuola). -
Period: 1500 to
Renaissance period
This period was the most notable with respect to literature due to its demanding and brilliant achievements, in the Elizabethan and early periods of "Stuart represent the most brilliant century of all". -
1558
Elizabeth I
The reign of Elizabeth I began in 1558 and ended with his death in 1603, -
Jacobin
After Elizabeth I death, she was replaced by King Stuart James VI of Scotland, who took the title of James I of England. The literature of that time was considered one of the best due to a large number of genius authors. The English literature of the reign of James I was called Jacobin, his reign was from 1603 to 1625 -
Carolina period
The events that happened in the Carolina period were immersed in a bloody civil war. This was a religious, political and social conflict between the King and his supporters.
Likewise "Charles First appointed as the King in 1625 and in 1649, he was executed as a result of Puritan uprising under the leadership of Oliver Cromwell". -
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The Puritan period
"Under the Protectorate (1653-1660), England was governed by eleven Major-Generals" -
Oliver Cromwell
Oliver Cromwell became Lord Protector of England, Scotland and Ireland, "the only non-real that had that position." His most outstanding role was to bring Carlos I. to trial and execute him.
Cromwell had become a strong Puritan faith. -
Literature
“Many typical literary forms of the modern world, including the novel, biography, history, travel writing, and journalism, began during the Restoration period. Charles to restore the monarchy” (Simone per la scuola)
During this period there were great changes regarding the seriousness, decorum and morality that was promulgated so much in the Puritan period since the king had several lovers and several children
“The poetry of the Restoration period is formal, intellectual and realistic” -
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Restoration age
In this restoration at the hands of the king Carlos II in 1660 a beginning to a new literary and social age of England opens -
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18th century period
This particular period is divided in to the Augustan literature from 1700 to 1750 and the age of sensibility from 1750 to 1798 (Muñoz, 2018)
During this period the era of illustration is reflected, that is, a rational and scientific approach was given to all the problems that arose of a political, religious, social and economic nature. -
Augustan literature
The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720s and 1730s themselves (Hamandista Academy, 2015) -
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Romanticism
“Where we find romantic poetry and romantic novel”
In this period between the 18th and 19th centuries, the greatest variety of styles, contents and themes was exhibited, compared to other periods.
Romanticism usually deals with the individual more than with society (Simone per la scuola) -
William Blake
In this era the highlight was what was done by the poet William Blake, considered one of the best -
Industrial society
In this period arises the evolution of industrial society, the rise of great towns and cities, and dramatic increases in population enabled ( Frawley, 2018) -
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Victorian period
“Queen Victoria reigned from 1837 to 1901, and her reign corresponds roughly to what is called the Victorian Period” -
English novel
It was considered the era of the English novel, where Charles Dickens was stood out for his novels full of humor and drama -
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The 20th century
The twentieth century opened with great hope but in the same way there was a certain prejudice, "since the new century marked the final focus of a new millennium."
The writing was based on the somber feelings of the new century -
Innovation
“From 1908 to 1914 there was a remarkably productive period of innovation and experiment as novelists and poets undertook, in anthologies and magazines, to challenge the literary” (Kemp, 2019)
The most significant writing of the period, traditionalist or modern, was inspired by neither hope nor apprehension but by bleaker feelings that the new century would witness the collapse of a whole civilization. -
Period: to
Postmodern period
In this period of postmodernity rose several fields of culture such as literary criticism, cinema, music, visual arts, and architecture, among others. -
World War II
After the end of World War- 2. Post- modern literary writers have also been greatly influenced by various movement and ideas taken from post -modern philosophy (Sheeba, 2017). -
Tecnology
The first computers were created in the same way, the most revolutionary invention, as the internet giving way to the era of information and telecommunications -
Contemporary literature
In this period had great social and political events, one of the most important events was the Cold War between the Soviet Union and the United States, whose effects of the war felt all over the world, even internal wars in countries smaller by the control of power -
Space travel
Space travel is carried out, technology is developed, in the same way "molecular biology, genetics, particle physics"