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ENGLISH LITERATURE TIMELINE
The language of these emigrant peoples composes the beginnings of English (English Literature begins). Before these peoples arrived (450 AD) there was a population and a Celtic language. On the one hand there is the Anglo-Saxon and on the other the British (Celtic). In the sixth century, Gildas makes cryonics in Latin discovering this period. -
Jan 1, 1066
OLD ENGLISH
Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. -
Jan 1, 1500
MIDDLE ENGLISH
In this period religious literature continued to enjoy popularity and Hagiographies were written, adapted and translated: for example, The Life of Saint Audrey, Eadmer's (c. 1060 – c. 1126). At the end of the 12th century, Layamon in Brut adapted the Norman-French of Wace to produce the first English-language work to present the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It was also the first historiography written in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. -
Jan 1, 1558
Elizabethan England
The Elizabethan era is the epoch in English history marked by the reign of Queen Elizabeth I (1558–1603). Historians often depict it as the golden age in English history.
This “golden age” was the English Renaissance and saw the flowering of poetry, music and literature. The era is most famous for theatre, as William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England’s past style of theatre. -
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
After William Caxton introduced the printing press in England in 1476, vernacular literature flourished. The Reformation inspired the production of vernacular liturgy which led to the Book of Common Prayer (1549), a lasting influence on literary language. The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the 17th century. -
Restoration literature
Is the English literature written during the historical period commonly referred to as the English Restoration (1660–1689), which corresponds to the last years of the direct Stuart reign in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland. or the literature of rapid communication and trade that followed in the wake of England's mercantile empire. -
18th-Century British Literature
William Shakespeare's plays and poems figure prominently in any English literature course. His plays fall under three headings: comedies, where the characters use deceit and disguise to gain true love; tragedies, where a hero succumbs to a tragic flaw in his character causing his own and quite a few other deaths; and histories, where the central character is a former king whose flaws cause his demise. -
ROMANTICISM
English romanticism began in 1798 with the lyrical ballads, composed by two authors: William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Coleridge (1772-1834). The prologue of this work is considered as the manifesto of English Romanticism. His poems, simple language, reflect the mystery and emotion of nature. In addition to this joint work, Wordsworth is the author of The Prelude, and Coleridge of The Ballad of the Old Sailor. -
Victorian and Modernist British Literature
The Victorian period, which lasted from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the twentieth century, includes the love poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson's sweeping saga of Camelot entitled "Idylls of the King," and the Scottish writer Robert Louis Stevenson's adventure stories and novels, including his famous "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. -
MODERN LITERATURE
The Modernist English literature includes the works of William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
POST MODERNS
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