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Old English Literature period (400 -1000)
This period was focused in the oral tradition with poems, stories and song that they were passed generation by generation, also this period is called Anglo-Saxon period and the most of the literature was about English´s church history, people, chronicles, biblical text, heroic poetry, elegiac poetry etc. -
Period: 1000 to 1500
Middle English period (1000-1500)
• In this literature the most of the writer wrote as an anonymous authors since it was very natural, also the poetry was the dominant literature in that term, on the other hand began to establish the Norman and Avegin dynasties.
Authors: Anonymous, Chucer, Caxton, Kemper -
Period: 1500 to
The Renaissance period (1500-1660)
It was of the most interesting period since is the unique time with characteristics like that, however this time in the English literature was influenced by the Italian renaissance, but there were some differences because the English renaissance was focused in the literature and the music with the visual arts and it is divided in three parts: -
Period: 1558 to
• The Elizabethan period
This is the most important term in the renaissance since also is called as the golden age because the theater started to be famous with the works of William Shakespeare who was the most important writer in the English literature because he wrote tragedy and the comedy.
literature because he wrote tragedy and the comedy.
Authors: Shakespeare, Marlowe, Spenser, Jonson. -
Period: to
The Neoclassical period (1600-1785)
This period was influenced by contemporary French literature since the writer wanted to use the philosophy, reason, skepticism etc. in order to show and express their necessities, therefore in this time grow the English literary criticism.
Authors: Crabbe, Dryden. -
Period: to
• The Jacobean period
This terms is called post- Shakespeare and the James I started his reign, but with this reign initiated the religious and political unrest in England, therefore a group of writer and other people had to move to America because the did not feel free with their thoughts and beliefs about England.
Authors: Ford, Webster, Donne. -
Period: to
The Caroline period
In this time the most important literary genre was the drama taking into account the reign from King Charles I and the civil war, however the poetry had space in this time in order to express something about the country and its flowers.
Authors: Milton, Lovelace. -
Period: to
The Puritan period (1649-1660)
In this period the writer changed their temperament since the most of the writer were a Protestants because they wanted to simplify the ceremonies and creeds of the English church taking into account that they due breaking up of old ideals.
Authors: Baxter, Danforth, Taylor. -
Period: to
The Restoration age (1660 -1700)
In this time the most popular literary genre was the tragic drama taking into account the heroic plays, where there is a brave men, beautiful women, lords, kings, queens, princess and love, also there are many literato from this time focused and based in Shakespeare.
Authors: Davenant, Dryden, Huysmans. -
Period: to
18th century period (1700-1798)
This time was developed in the peaceful lived in England taking into account that it was after the England revolution, it was called the age of elegance and it was divided in two parts:
• The Augustan period (1700-1715)
• Age of sensibility (1715-1798) -
Period: to
• The Augustan period (1700-1715)
In this time the journalism and the novel was developed since the club and coffee houses created in that time allowed to the people to debate in a social centers with intellectual people, also because the woman were excluded in the political life.
Authors: Pope, Johnson -
Period: to
• Age of sensibility (1715-1798)
It was developed by the social point of view about the problems of the freedom, human communication, rules, unreality, dreams, irrationality etc. in order to express their feelings and suppositions.
Authors: Shelley, Byron, Keats. -
Period: to
The Romantic period (1785-1832)
In this time the poetry and the novel were used in a romantic way, since the emotions were very important and the emotions were over reason and the spontaneous poetry was frequently in this time overflow of powerful feelings.
Authors: Shelley, Byron, Keats. -
Period: to
The Victorian period (1832-1901)
This period had the name by the queen Victoria, it was characterized by many events like social, political, religious, technological and scientific developments, therefore all of this influenced in the English literature, also because the movement started to be more democratic and it opened the modern history.
Authors: Darwin, Dickens, Arnold. -
Period: to
The Modern period (1914)
This period took place in the world war I, it started to have problem with the ideas from the Victorian writers, since they considered that their ideas are superficial and stupid because it is important to think and be reasonable, since the wanted to break with the tradition and the reaction against to the world war I. On the other hand the writer focused in disillusion of capitalism, irrational philosophy and the psychoanalysis as a theoretical base.
Authors: Conrad, Kipling, Woolf. -
Period: to
The Postmodern period (1945)
In this period they focused in to break freedom of the modernism form taking into account that this time was developed in the World War II, since they had influenced by Freud, Sartre, Camus, Derrida and Foucault in order to do a countercultural revolution.
Authors: Vonnegut, Heller, Thompson. -
Period: to
The Contemporary period
This time allow to the people and writes to express their personal thoughts and feeling taking into account the topics like politics, social problems, religious and economic discussions, also included the contemporary romance and novels.
Author: McEwan, Narayan, Roy.