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Period: 450 to 1066
OLD ENGLISH OR ANGLO-SAXON
It is the beginning of the English language that was widely spoken in England and that began to be written out of pure practical necessity. Even Anglo-Saxon literature has been investigated over time on paleographic issues and manuscripts. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
MIDDLE ONE
In the year 1066, the conquest of England by the Normans occurs, when England lost the war, they lost power and the Normans began to speak their language, which was French and Latin, so it is not found at that time nothing written in english. or it is English that contains variations and with French influences, English medieval literature was nourished by religious themes -
Period: 1340 to 1400
GEOFFREY CHAUCER
the most recognized author of the medieval age, His most famous work is the Canterbury Tales, Although Chaucer is an English author, his work was inspired by the changes and developments that were taking place in Europe, especially in Italy; He was the first to be buried in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abbey. -
Period: 1500 to
ENGLISH RENAISSANCE
The English Renaissance are historiographic names for people throughout the community and the Renaissance artistic and cultural productions in England
William Caxton introduced printing to England -
Period: 1558 to
ELIZABETHAN LITERATURE
The Elizabethan Era witnessed the flourishing of literature, especially drama: producing the so-called Elizabethan theater, William Shakespeare was an outstanding author of poetry and plays, probably the most important figure English literature has had in its history; the term Elizabethan refers to the literature produced in England during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I -
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JACOBEAN LITERATURE
The Jacobin period is often applied to the specific styles of architecture, literature, and the visual and decorative arts that characterize that period, the period of English and Scottish history that coincide with the reign of James VI of Scotland, who also inherited the crown of England with the name of Jacobo I. -
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PURITAN
It had its origin in the English reformist period that was affected during the reign of Elizabeth I, they were English who rejected both the Catholic Church and the Anglican Church; The movement was persecuted in England, which is why many left this country looking for other places with greater religious freedom. -
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RESTORATION AGE
The English restoration refers to a series of works that focus on celebrating or rejecting the restoration of the court of Charles II; The censorship and radical moralism that existed during the Puritan regime of Cromwell caused a break in literary culture; During the Restoration, all literary forms experienced a renaissance. -
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18th CENTURY
the eighteenth century was a century of prose and especially a novel, the English novel of this time covers multiple genres: satirical and realistic, sentimental and pre-romantic, psychological, etc; The best poet, Alexander Pope (1688-1744), creates burlesque poems, Thomas Gray (1716-1771), James Macpherson (1736-1796), who publishes his own verses attributing them to Ossian -
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AUGUST LITERATURE
it is a style of literature that corresponds approximately to the reigns of Queen Anne, King George I and George II; The novel was not very popular until the eighteenth century, although many works were very important, such as Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe. In the mid-eighteenth century the novel was established by authors such as Henry Fielding, Laurence Stern, who perfected the epistolary novel; Richardson was a moralist while Fielding and Stern moved closer to the comic genre. -
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AGE OF SENSIBILITY
one of the most important writers in the English language and of universal literature, poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic; in 1959 he publishes The Story of Rasselas, Prince of Abyssinia, a novel with which he will achieve great success both in England and beyond the borders of his country -
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ROMANTICISM
English literature of the first half of the 19th century is characterized by its great poets and by the historical novel, it is characterized by emerging as a reaction against Enlightenment rationalism and classicism, giving priority to feelings, fantasy, imagination and dreams. The main driving motif of English romantic literature is the clash between reality and desire.
Among the leading authors of the second generation of romantic poets are Lord Byron, Percy Bysse Shelley and keats -
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VICTORIAN PERIOD
The Victorian era covers practically from romanticism to the end of the century, and literature represents a change of style in a realistic sense, it is a period in which the novel appears in its maximum splendor, a group of eminent novelists also flourishing; Today, the most famous Victorian novel is Robert Louis' treasure island -
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MODERN LITERATURE
It follows that modern literature responds to the aesthetics and content of literary works, rather than a particular chronology; Between the two World Wars we find important novelists like D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, a member of the Bloomsbury group. Sitwell also gained strength among literary and artistic movements, but was less influential. The most important popular literature writings were P.G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. -
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POST MODERNS
Postmodernism comes to be a mixture of very different variables such as: Responses to modernism, Responses to a new state in the world, Recognition and / or fights between postmodernists before a new capitalist reality, Feeling of fragmentation and Reconceptualization.
The postmodern novel, in this way, appears as a way of telling, eliminating the omniscient narrator, as a way of mixing perspectives, and as a way of incorporating the poetic as another function within the text itself. -
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CONTEMPORARY
A literature originates that recreates a fictional, fantasy and mystery character, based on real life events. In addition, technological and industrial innovations increase the number of publications of the works, giving impetus to a change of social mentality. The authors reflect their thinking by breaking with the models and aesthetic parameters of previous times (such as the Renaissance, Baroque or Enlightenment