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450
OLD ENGLISH
The history of literature begins in the year 450 and culminates in the year 1066 and is known as Old English and was the western Germanic language spoken in the area now known as England between the fifth and eleventh centuries. Old English speakers called their English language, Angle, Angelcyn or Angelfolc and their home, Angelcynn or Englaland. -
1066
MIDDLE ENGLISH
The middles English goes from 1066 to 1500. Middle English is the name given in historical philology to the various forms that symbolically adopted the English language spoken in England from the late eleventh century to the end of the fifteenth century. Since at this time English was changing periodically the way it was used. -
1500
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The renaissance of English from 1500 to 1660 The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late fifteenth century to the early seventeenth. It is associated with the Pan-European Renaissance that is generally considered to have begun in Italy at the end of the 14th century and is a great example of culture and literature that gives us a better understanding of the changes that both the country and the language suffered in the Renaissance period. -
PURITAN
Puritanism is the movement of reform that sought to purify, in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, 1653 and 1660 the Church of England of the remnants of papal Catholicism that had been embedded in the Church after the accession to the throne of Elizabeth I. Puritanism as literature, your great importance much more in the United States since the vast majority of writings were made by Puritans. -
RESTORATION AGE
The age of restoration, this period from 1660 to 1700 is known as the Restoration period or the Dryden era because the monarchy was restored in England. Dryden was the representative writer of this period. They demanded that English poetry and theater follow the style of French writers. -
18th CENTURY
Literature of the 18th century it was from the year 1700 until the year 1798 and refers to world literature produced during the 18th century. -
ROMANTICISM
Romanticism (also the Romantic era or the Romantic period) is an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and was at its peak in the approximate period from 1798 to 1837. Feelings and sentiments are very much present in romantic works. -
VICTORIAN
Victorian literature is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). ... While in the preceding Romantic period, poetry had been the dominant genre, it was the novel that was most important in the Victorian period. -
MODERN LITERATURE
Anglo-Saxon modernism is known in general terms the avant-garde literature in English that reached its peak between 1900 and 1940. Modernism developed mainly in Europe, so many American writers moved to London or Paris that were at that moment the nerve centers of the artistic culture. -
POST MODERN
Postmodern literature(1940-2000) is literature characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (though not exclusively) defined as a style or a trend which emerged in the post–World War II era. -
CONTEMPORARY
The word contemporary means living, belonging to or occurring in the present. ... Contemporary literature is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day.
