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Period: 450 to 1060
Old English
Old English literature, also called Anglo-Saxon literature, literature written in Old English c. 650–c. 1100.Beowulf is the oldest surviving Germanic epic and the longest Old English poem; it was likely composed between 700 and 750. Other great works of Old English poetry include The Wanderer, The Seafarer, The Battle of Maldon, and The Dream of the Rood. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
The Norman Conquest worked no immediate transformation on either the language or the literature of the English. Older poetry continued to be copied during the last half of the 11th century A postconquest example is a poem from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle on the death of William the Conqueror, lamenting his cruelty and greed, has more rhyme than alliteration. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
This period was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance ,The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. By the time of Elizabethan literature a vigorous literary culture in both drama and poetry included poets such as Edmund Spenser, whose verse epic The Faerie Queene. -
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Puritan
Poets of Puritan Age used sonnets especially the likes of Anne Bradstreet (considered to be the first American poet) etc. This was a continuation of the sonnet writing in the Elizabethan age and the works of Shakespeare etc.“The Author to Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet is an excellent example of such sonnets. -
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Restoration Age
The Restoration of the monarchy in 1660 following the period of the Commonwealth. Some literary historians speak of the period as bounded by the reign of Charles II (1660–85), while others prefer to include within its scope the writings produced during the reign of James II (1685–88). -
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18 # century
16 period , dividing in two, Augustan 1700--1750
and Age Sensibility The 17th century is a period, which many English historians and literary scholars prefer to any other. During most of it England had her own course both in her political and literary life.
After Queen Elizabeth's death James VI of Scotland became King James I of England in J603 Like Elizabeth he tried to rule without parliament as much as possible. -
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Romanticism
This period produced authors who wrote about life, love and nature. ,John Keats is possibly the most famous author of this period one of his odes is eternal youthfulness and William Wordsworth and his poem "The world is too much with us, late and soon,". this period was poetry and novel -
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Victorian period eighth
The Victorian period which lasted from the mid-1800s to the beginning of the twentieth century, incluided poems of Elizabeth and Robert Browning, Lord Alfred Tennyson's sweeping saga of Camelot entitled, Modernist English literature includes the works of William Butler Yeats, Virginia Woolfe, James Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, who all dealt with sometimes disturbing themes of death and disillusionment and pioneered new literary forms. -
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Post Moderns
Postmodernism” has been a notoriously difficult term to define, and his history across various disciplines. Nevertheless, the idea largely emerged in the late 1950s modernism had been superseded by a new cultural, aesthetic, and critical agenda. Initially, it found its principal purchase in cultural philosophy, literature, architecture, art, and cultural theory -
Contemporary
The 20th century opened with great hope but also with some apprehension, for the new century marked the final approach to a new millennium. For many, humankind was entering upon an unprecedented era. H.G. Wells’s utopian studies, the aptly titled Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress upon Human Life and Thought (1901) and A Modern Utopia (1905)