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OLD ENGLISH
This organization responded to a Germanic model of extensive family units (clans), The Anglo-Saxons brought with them not only the epic poetry, but also the ALITERATIVE FORM, in which all the poetry of the period is written, based on the accents.Beowulf, the greatest Germanic epic, contains many of the materials that are evidently pre-Christian, even though the author of the poem, in the form in which it has reached us, was a Christian who made references to the Old Testament. -
Period: 456 to 1066
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Period: 1066 to 1500
MIDDLE ENGLISH
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1100
MIDDLE ENGLISH
Most of the literature of this period belongs to the religious sphere because it is the church that printed the cultural pattern at that time. In spite of everything, the literary quality of this production is scarce so it only deserves to highlight three works, Ancrene Riwle, I sind of a Haiden and Owl & the nightingale for his humorous treatment that already preludes Chaucer. -
1500
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
That period of English cultural history is also known as "The Age of Shakespeare" or "The Elizabethan Era", referring to the most important author and monarch of the time.
The Book of Common Prayer ("common prayer book"), whose first version was published in 1549, and later the Authorized Version or King James Version (the "authoritative version" or "of King James" of the Bible), published in 1611 -
Period: 1500 to
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
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PURITAN
The Puritan Revolution was a movement emerged in England in the sixteenth century, Calvinist confession, which rejected both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church.
Puritanism has been a central theme of literary works such as La letra scarlata, where the author criticizes what he considers fanaticism and false morality of Puritanism; or as The Witches of Salem, where the author uses that example of fanaticism as an image to criticize the political persecution of McCarthyism. -
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PURITAN
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RESTORATION AGE
Is the one with which literature written in English is known during the period known as the English Restoration The term refers to a series of works, with a relatively homogeneous style, that focus on the celebration or rejection of the restored court of Charles II. It encompasses works in some completely opposite cases:The Lost Paradise of John Milton next to Sodom by John Wilmot or the comedy of William Wycherley The Country Wife beside the austerity of The Progress of John Bunyan's Pilgrim. -
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RESTORATION AGE
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18TH CENTURY
Within that tradition, Robinson Crusoe and Moll Flanders de Defoe appear at the beginning of the century, and Jonathan Swift's The Gulliver's Travels, which follow the tradition of the English Restoration, and which critics consider as predating the English modern novel. The first resembles more a personal diary, the second is clearly a picaresque novel, with all its characteristics, and the third is a fierce satire of humanity with echoes reminiscent of the satires of Luciano. -
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18th Century
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ROMANTICISM
The beginning of English romanticism can be dated to 1798, the year of the anonymous publication of lyrical ballads, other poems, actually written by William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. It will be used for the first time a common language for poetic expression and will realize the beauty of nature as evasion of the bourgeois and industrialized world.
William Wordsworth (1770-1850) and Samuel Coleridge. The prologue of this work is considered as the manifesto of English romanticism -
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ROMANTICISM
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VICTORIAN
The one produced in the United Kingdom during the reign of Victoria (1837-1901). The so-called Victorian era is a very important cultural stage in the history of England and Europe.
For example, the author could interrupt his narrative to pronounce on a character, or sympathize with him, or praise another, while later he seems to exclaim "Dear reader!" and inform the reader or remind him of another relevant point -
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VICTORIAN
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MODERM LITERATURE
English Modernism is a literary trend that connects with other artistic manifestations that develop in diverse countries from the last years of the nineteenth century to mid of the twentieth century, such as Symbolism, Impressionism, Futurism, Dadaism, Vorticism, Expressionism and Surrealism. All these trends show a desire for renewal and experimentation in the field of arts.
From here the modernist novels called "stream of consciousness" do not present an action in a linear way -
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MODERN LITERATURE
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POST MODERN
It was coined by a group of American critics, in an attempt to demarcate the trends that moved between the "high" culture of Modernism and the reflexive, experimental and minimalist aesthetics of the postmodernist era. For this they were based on works by American writers, drawing the conclusion that postmodernist literature broke with the epic narrative so typical of nineteenth-century realism, as well as individuality and the subjective works of the mind. -
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POST MODERN
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CONTEMPORARY
The most outstanding novelists of the period between wars were D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, this last member of the Bloomsbury group. The Sitwells also gained strength among literary and artistic movements, but with less influence. The most important writers of popular literature were P.G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie.
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CONTEMPORARY
