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OLD ENGLISH (450-1066) "BEOWULF"
The poetry began like oral art in the Anglo-Saxon period about in the year 410 D.C and finished with the Norman invasion in 1066. This style of poetry was written for be song and accompanied the harp and bard with.
This period is recognized by its beautiful elegies and epic poetry. The poetry is alliterative.
The work more famous is the anonym epopee “Beowulf”, its writer is anonym. Other Works “The Wanderer”, “The Seafarer”. -
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MIDDLE ENGLISH (1066-1500)
Style of Poetry, Fiction and Anthology.
Style was narrative in verse and prose and finishing the period it mix with the religious content, which it was performance in the courts and festivals.
The narrators were anonyms yet.
The work more famous is “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer, and the Tales of King Arthur about 1469. -
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ENGLISH RENAISSANCE (1500-1660)
Style poetic, novelist, essayists, satirists. Also, It is famous by its baroque poetry, epic and religious.
It was influence by Aristoteles. We find three periods:
Elizabethan period (1558-1603) - Poetry-Drama
Actors: William Shakespeare, Francis Bacon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6TM-Gf-4xU
Jacobean Period (1603-1625) - Poetry-Prose
Actors: Ben Jonson, John Donne, Robert Herrick
Caroline Period (1625-1660)
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Puritan Age( 1653-1660)
Clash between Catholicism and Protestantism
Its literary expression is the sermon and study of the Bible.
They closed the theatres. This happened during the civil war.
Main actor John Milton, who was poet, mathematician and musician, also he was blind and wrote the epic poet “Paradise Lost”
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Restoration Period (1660-1700)
It is the age of reason. The art reflected the universal commonality of human nature.
Written should be well structured, emotion controlled and qualities like wit.
Theatres re-opened in 1660 came back to life.
The style was drama and poetry, bawdy and cynical. Also, restoration drama and social comedy.
William Wycherley “The old Bachelor”
Daniel Defoe (England) “Robinson Crusoe”
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The Augustan Age (1700-1750)
Style: lyric and gothic poetry, prose, narrative and romantic novels.
the poetry was an imitation of human life, an rationalism.
There were rise of novels.
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Age of Sensibility (1750-1798) "Songs of Innocence" William Blake
Style was sentimentalism in reaction to the rationalism of the Augustan Age.
Actors: Dr. Samuel Johnson “Dictionary of the English Language”
William Blake “Songs of Innocence” -
Romantic Period (1798-1860)
Style: Life, Love and Nature.
Romantic poetry and romantic novel. The history was influence by the psychology.
Style: individual, intuition, imagination, idealism. The actors were romantics wrote about life, love and nature.
This period was famous by novels.
Mystery and the supernatural, folklore, myth.
William Wordsworth “Lyric Ballads” (England)
Lord Byron “Don Juan” (England)
James Russell Lowell “The first Snowfall” (American)
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Victorian Period (1832-1901)
Style: narrative, humor and irony practicing the criticism social.
It was the period Britain´s longest reigning monarch of Queen Victoria. It was a stability and prosperity period an Industrial Revolution.
Literature seen as a bridge between the romanticism and modernism.
Robert Louis Stevenson “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”
Elizabeth and Robert Browning “Sonnets from the Portuguese” “My Last Dishes”
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Realistic Period (1860-1914) "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" Marck Twain
Style: Naturalism and hyper-realism because the man was simply a higher order animal in comparison with other animals.
It was against to romantic values.
Mark Twain “The adventures of Huckleberry Finn”
Theodore Dreiser “Sister Carrie”
Jack London “To Build a Fire” “The Jungle” -
Edwardian Period (1901_1914)
Named by the king Edward. In this period began the Modern Literature and break with tradition. There are distinction between literature and popular fiction.
The catastrophes of the world wars shaken the moral and spiritual life. Introduced innovations as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories drove by psychology than by external plot.
Actors: Joseph Conrad “Heart of Darkness”
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Modern Literature (1901-1940)
Style: science fiction, Stream of consciousness novel, War Poetry, psychological novels, symbolist novels, mysticism.
Introduced innovations as stream of consciousness, the unreliable narrator, and stories drove by psychology than by external plot.
Actors:
H. G Wells “War of the Worlds”.
D.H Lawrence “El amante de Lady Chatterley”
A.C Bradley “Shakespearean Tragedy”
Virginia Wolf “La señora Dalloway”
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Post Moderns (1940-2000)
Genres: Post- modern novel, Political and social poetry and drama, Drama of the absurd, Post-colonial and feminist poetry, Prose and Drama.
The monarch Queen Elizabeth II.
Phillip Roth “American Pastoral”
Brian Friel “Wonderful Tennessee”
Tom Stoppard “Jumpers”
Ian McEwan “ On Chesil Beach”
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Contemporary (2000)
The writers express the reality and current events, so the contemporary age began after the World War II.
Some features are the appearance and disappear of the characters. Also, it´s influenced for the technology.
It´s a period that reflect the social, political and cultural viewpoints of the people through realistic characters.
Toni Morrison “Beloved”
Barbara Kingsolver “The poisonwood Bible”
Wendell Berry “What are people for”
