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Period: 450 to 1100
Old literature
The writing was not very important, the poems and literary works are transmitted orally. -
Period: 1100 to 1500
Middle english ages
English literature is seen as a literature that flourished being very distinguished -
Period: 1500 to
Renassaince
The word Renaissance implies the rebirth of culture and learning. -
Period: 1558 to
Elizabethan
This era was the period of new ideas and new thinking. -
Period: to
Jacobian
The two primary contribution of this age in English literature is the Revenge play and Metaphysical poetry. -
Period: to
Caroline
Some of the prominent writers of that era are George Herbert, Henry
Vaughan, Katherine Philips, John Donne etc. -
Period: to
Puritans (Last renassaince)
The age is named 'Puritan Age' because of the Puritan dominance in England for the first time. Furthermore, the greatest literary figures of that time were Puritans. -
Period: to
Neo - classical age
Neo implies 'new' and classical denotes the 'Roman and Greek
classics'. This era is also known as the era of enlightenment. -
Period: to
Restoration period
The Theatre closed down by the Puritans was restored. It was a period of many changes -
Period: to
Augustan literature
The Augustan age was a Roman Empire age. This is the age of material greed. This age is also known as classical age. -
Period: to
Age of sensibility
Most of the literary works of this age talk about human feelings, classicism and Romantic revival. -
Period: to
Romanticism
This period was mainly a reaction against the philosophy of Enlightenment period that dominated much of European Philosophy. -
Period: to
19th century
The 19th-century literature is merged with three ages. They are: Romanticism, Victorian Age and Edwardian Age. -
Period: to
Victorian age
The Victorian age was a time of great prosperity in the History of English Literature. Some of the most trending topics of that time are the democracy, feminism, unionization of workers, Marxism, socialism etc. -
Period: to
Tje Edwardian age
This is a time of changes and technological advances.
H.G Wells, Beatrix Potter, Lucy Maud Montgomery, Edith Nesbit were some of the renowned writers of the age -
Period: to
Modernism
At this time women are not allowed to write freely, this is the reason for several texts in anonymous or with a pseudonym. Literature from various parts of the world started spreading. -
Period: to
Contemporary
The contemporary era goes to this day in which literature from different parts of the world is found in addition to different themes.