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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English (Anglo - Saxon)
This period It was given by the invasion of Celtic England and ended when Norman France conquered England under the command of William.
Anglo-Saxon comes from two Germanic tribes: Anglo and Saxon.
oral literature predominated in this period. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Period
In this period is give a great trancition in idiomatics and cultures aspects. This fact forms that we know like a kind of modern english. The most writtings was of religion kind but after the literature start growing. somebodies writters from this period was Chauser, Thomas Malory and Robert Henryson. -
Period: 1500 to
Renaassance
This period is divided in four parts: Elizabethan age: was a golden english drama age, its more notable figure was William Shakespeare. Jacobean age: its name is by the James I reign. some works was by Shakespeare,Michael Drayton, John Webster and others. Caroline age: it was in the Carlos I reign. Its most important figures was John Milton, Robert Burton y George Herbert Commonwealth period: It happened in the English civil war end, and by the restauration stuart monarchy. -
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Neoclassical Period
This period is divided in three ages: The restoration: In this age was popular the comedy and the satire. Som writters was Aphra Behn, John Bunyan y John Locke. The Augustan age: Alexander Pope y Jonathan Swift was popular. They drew parallelism betweeen them and the first augustes. The senvitivity age: excelled the
neoclassicism and the Illustration. Some the most representatives figures was Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell -
Puritanism
It happened in the isabel I reign in the reformist period. was a radical part of the protestanism -
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Restauration Age
In this age predominated a literary style is based on the rejection toward the Charles II court resturation -
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18th Century
In this century the prose predomined and specially the novel in wich cover some genders like: satirical, realistic, pre-romantic, sentimental and psychological. -
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Romantic Period
Is one of the most popular literary times. This epoch finished with the victorian age start and with the Sir Walter Scott dead. Some of most representatives wirtters was Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen y Mary Shelley In this age there was a important period called Gotic age. -
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Victorian Period
Its name is by the Victoria reign. In this period there where many social, religiou, intellectual and economic problems. and is divided in three periods called; early, middle and late. and some of the most representatives poets was Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson and Matthew Arnold. In the test some predomined Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin and Walter Pater. in the prose predominated Charles Dickens, Charlotte y Emily Bronte and others. -
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Eduardine Period
Its name was by Eduardo VII reign. it started with the Victoria queen death and finished with the first world war start. some of the most importants novelists was Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox. Ford, Rudyard Kipling, HG Wells y Henry James and importants poets like Alfred Noyes y William Butler Yeats and playwrights like James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw y John Galsworthy. -
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Georgian Period
It given was by the Jorge V reign, also include the successive Georges reigns from 1714 toward 1830. In this period the tematic was of rural or pastoral nature and some most representatives poets was Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, WH Davies and Rupert Brooke. -
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Modern Period
It started after of the first world war. In this period is covered the experimentation in the style of the narrative, verse and drama. is revitalized the literature critic, it liderd by Woolf, Eliot, William Empson. Some novelists was James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, DH Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, EM Forster y Doris Lessing. Some poets was WB Yeats, TS Eliot, WH Auden, Seamus Heaney, and others and Some playwrights too. -
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Post-Modern Period
Its started when finished the second world war. The principal tematics was the teory and the literature poststructuralists critics. Many post-moderns authors wrote in the modern period too. Some of the most representative writters was Samuel Beckett , Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively end Iain Banks. -
Contemporany Age
