History of English literature

Old English Literature

975

450-1066. Encompasses the surviving writing in old english.These works include genres such as epic poetry, hagiigraphy, sermons Bible translations, legal works, cronicles and riddles.

Middle English Literature

1066

1066-1500
After the Norman Conquest of England in 1066, the written form anglo saxon languaje, the written form Anglo Saxon Languaje, became less common.

Medieval theatre

1500

In the middle ages, drama vernacular of Europe may have emerged from enactments of the liturgy.

English Renaissence

1600

1500-1660
After William Caxton introduced the printing press in England in 1476,vernacular literature flourished.
English Renaissance was a cultural a artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th.

Spanish Writer Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

1616

Miguel de Cervantes was born near Madrid in 1547. He became a soldier in 1570 and was badly wounded in the Battle of Lepanto. Captured by the Turks in 1575, Cervantes spent five years in prison. before he was ransomed and returned home. After less successful earlier efforts, Cervantes finally achieved literary success in his later years, publishing the first part of Don Quixote in 1605. He died in 1616.

Romanticism

1804

1797-1837 Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th Century.The French Revolution was an especially important influence on the political thinking of many of the Romantic poets.

Victorian

1870

1837-1901.
The Victorian Novel.
It was in the Victorian era, that the novel became the leading literary genre in English.
Representatives of Era:
Elizabeth Gaskell, Charles Dickens, George Meredith, Robert Louis Stevenson.

2o th century Modernism

1895

1901-1940
English Literary Modernism develop in the twentieth-century out of a general sense of disillusionment with Victorian Era acttitudes of certainty, conservatism and belief im the idea of objective truth.
Representatives of era:
Rudyar Kipling
James Joyce
Virginia Woolf
George Orwell

Post-Modernism

1940

1940-2000 Though some have seen modernism ending by around 1939, with regard to English literature, When modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to modernism occurred.

Writer post-modernism Ernest Hemingway

1961

Born on July 21, 1899, in Cicero, Illinois, is seen as one of the great American 20th century novelists, and is known for works like 'A Farewell to Arms' and 'The Old Man and the Sea.'