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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English Period
This literature was written in old english.
The most respresentative poems of these period are: Beowulf
The Battle of Maldon
The Dream of the Rood Some known poets of this era were: Caedmon and Cynewulf Retrieved from
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Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
This period started after the Norman Conquest. This literature was written in Anglo-norman. It is divided in four edges:
- The Early Period
- The Thirteenth Century
- The Fourteenth Century
- The Fifteenth Century Some representative works are:
- The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
- Tremulous Hand
- The Lays and Fables of Marie de France
- John Lydgate’s The Lives of Saints Edmund and Fremund Retrieved from: https://www.bl.uk/medieval-literature/articles/middle-english -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
Was a cultural and artistic movement
This period is also known as the most brilliant century of all. The period is divided on the Elizabethan period and the Jacobean period.
Some representative authors are: Francis Bacon
Francis Beaumont
Thomas Dekker
Christopher Marlowe
Philip Massinger
Thomas Middleton
Thomas More
William Rowley
William Shakespeare
James Shirley
John Webster
Thomas Wyatt
William Tyndale Retrieved from: https://courses.lumenlearning.com/britlit1/chapter/english-renaissance/ -
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Puritan
It is named the Puritan Age because during this period, Puritan standards prevailed in England, and also because the greatest literary figure John Milton was a Puritan. The Puritans struggled for righteousness and liberty. Retrieved from: http://englishliteraturesuccess.blogspot.com/2015/03/puritan-age.html
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Restoration Age
In this period, King Charles II returned to the throne. The political situation was always an important part of the ages of literature and the Restoratios Age is one of the most representative of this issue.
Some representative works and authors are:
- John Bunyian - Pilgrim's Progress
- Samuel Butler
- John Oldham Retrieved from: https://www.britannica.com/art/Restoration-literature
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18th Century
In this era, there were a fenomena that was the Publication of Political Literature, however, there were also novels, journalism and other kind of publications.
Some representative authors are: Samuel Johnson
Daniel Defoe
Alexander Pope
James Thomson
Jonathan Swift
Samuel Richardson Retrieved from:https://www.britannica.com/art/English-literature/The-novel -
Period: to
Romanticism
Its emphasis was on the emotions and individualism.
Some authors were:
- William Wordsworth
- John Keats
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- George Gordon
- Lord Byron
- Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Frankenstein) Retrieved from: https://www.infoplease.com/encyclopedia/arts/english-lit/20th-century-plus/english-literature/the-romantic-period
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Victorian
This period is related to the literature written during the reign of the Queen Victoria. It is characterized by the struggle of working people and the triumph of the right over the wrong. *Retrieved from: https://study.com/academy/lesson/introduction-to-victorian-literature-overview-of-themes-style-and-authors.html Some Poets and novelists of this period were:- Matthew Arnold -The Bronte sisters -Christina Rossetti -Joseph Conrad
- Robert Browning
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
- Elizabeth Browning
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Period: to
Modern Literature
This period is characterized by the experimentation and individualism. Some important authors of this period are:
Bishop, Elizabeth
Conrad, Joseph
Doolittle, Hilda
Eliot, Thomas Stearns
Faulkner, William
Fitzgerald, F. Scott
Hemingway, Ernest
Hughes, Langston
James, Henry
Lawrence, D. H.
Lowell, Amy
Pound, Ezra
Shaw, George Bernard
Stevens, Wallace
Woolf, Virginia
Yeats, William Butler
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Period: to
Post Modern
Postmodern literature is based on the recognition of the complex nature of reality, the role of time and memory in human perseption and the problematic nature of language.
Some representative authors are: Robbe Grillet
Angela Carter
Beckett
Norman Mailer
Truman Capote
Raymond Carver *Retrieved from: https://literariness.org/2016/03/31/postmodernism/ -
Period: to
Contemporary
Contemporary refers to the current period. Something that is happening in this time.