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Old English Period (450 - 1066)
This period began when the romans whitdrew from Britain, leaving it to the Germanic and Scandinavian settlers. -
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Middle English (1066 - 1500)
This period emerged when French became in the language of the educated classes, gradually blended with ango-saxon, this was product of the norman invasion of 1066. -
1500
English Renaissance (1500 - 1660)
The Renaissance takes place at different times in different countries. The English Renaissance (also called the Early Modern period) dates from the beginning of the Protestant Reformation and from the height of the Quattrocento (1400's) in Italy. This period is divided by: -Queen Elizabethan
-Jacobean
-Carolina -
1558
Queen Elizabethan (1558 - 1603)
The English Elizabethan Era is one of the most fascinating periods in the History of England. The Elizabethan Era is named after the greatest Queens of England - Queen Elizabeth I. The Elizabethan Era is not only famous for the Virgin Queen but also for the era itself - Great Explorers, such as Sir Francis Drake and Walter Raleigh. The era of the very first Theatres in England - William Shakespeare, the globe Theatre and Christopher Marlowe! -
Jacobean (1603 - 1625)
The Jacobean era succeeds the Elizabethan era and precedes the Caroline era, and is often used for the distinctive styles of Jacobean architecture, visual arts, decorative arts, and literature which characterized that period. -
Caroline (1625 - 1653)
The Caroline age is named after Charles I (1625-1649). Caroline is an adjective of Carolus, the Latin word for Charles. The age of Caroline is an age of poetry of three kinds or schools: Metaphysical, Cavalier and Puritan schools of poetry. -
Puritan (1653 - 1660)
Many great works of literature were inspired by the actions and lifestyle of the Puritans. Most of the literature written in this time period fell into three categories. Poetry
Sermons
Historical narratives Writings was based mostly upon the Bible. The work of this era was chock full of biblical allusions, and the writing was fairly plain. All writing in this time was factual and had a specific, strict purpose; there was no genre of fiction. -
Restoration Age (1660 - 1700)
the term is used to denote roughly homogeneous styles of literature that center on a celebration of or reaction to the restored court of Charles II. It is a literature that includes extremes, for it encompasses both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the high-spirited sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of The Pilgrim's Progress. -
18th Century (1700 - 1798)
The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre. Subgenres of the novel during the 18th century were the epistolary novel, the sentimental novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel. The percustors are William Shakespeare and John Donne, in this period were the growth of the essay and the satire and the earliest example of the novel. -
Augustan Literature (1700 - 1750)
Satire, in prose, drama and poetry, was the genre that attracted the most energetic and voluminous writing. -
Romanticism (1718 - 1837)
Romantic poetry, romantic nobel. John Keats is probably the most important author of this period, the authors wrote about life, love, nature, William Wordsworth is also a key figure. -
Age of sensibility (1750 - 1798)
The period in British literature between roughly 1740 and 1800 is sometimes called “the Age of Sensibility,” in recognition of the high value that many Britons came to place on explorations of feeling and emotion in literature and the other arts. -
Victorian (1837 - 1901)
The main authors are Elizabeth and Robert Browning (love poems), Lord Alfred Tennyson (Idylls of the king), Robet Louis Stevenson (Stones and novels) -
Modern Literature (1901 - 1940)
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a very self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. -
Postmoderns (1940 - 2000)
The Modern Literature includes the works of William Butler, Virginia Woolfe , James Joyce, DH Lowrence. It's 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 (actual time)
When we talk about contemporary literature and the start date of this label, we have to acknowledge World War II and the surrounding events. The horrors of the war, including bombs, ground wars, genocide and corruption, are the pathways to this type of literature. It is from these real-life themes that we find the beginning of a new period of writing.
