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1066
Old english
Norman conquest,
Caedmons Hymn,
Song of beowulf. -
1500
Middle English I
It corresponds to the medieval period
Its divide into 4 general edges:
- The early period
- The thirdteenth century
- The Fourteenth century
- The fifteenth century -
Puritan period
To glorify God
Eg On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary -
English Renaissance
Elizabethan 1603,Jacobean 1625,Carolina 1653 On the first day of the new year Samuel Pepys gets up late, eats the remains of the turkey and begins his diary -
Restoration age
Influence of the french culture, Introducing the comedy of manner . Eg The Augustan Age begins in English literature, claiming comparison with the equivalent flowering under Augustus Caesar -
18th Century
Augustan 1700-1750,Age of sensibility 1750-1798
Eg . English poet Thomas Gray publishes his Elegy written in a Country Church Yard
Eg.English poets Wordsworth and Coleridge jointly publish Lyrical Ballads, a milestone in the Romantic movement -
Romanticims
Eg. Charles Dickens' first novel, Oliver Twist, begins monthly publication (in book form, 1838) -
Victorian
Mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria
Beatrix Potter publishes at her own expense The Tale of Peter Rabbit Rudyard Kipling's experiences of India are put to good use in his novel Kim 1902
Rudyard Kipling publishes his Just So Stories for Little Children The play Cathleen ni Houlihan, by W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory, fosters Irish nationalism The Tale of Peter Rabbit is published commercially, a year after being first printed by Beatrix Potter at her own expense -
Modern literature
The human created literature with the objective to show all as is eg.
Flann O'Brien's The Third Policeman is rejected by numerous publishers before becoming, decades later, his best-known novel -
Post Moderns
The writers start to write about the distrust towards the human being, the irony the fragmentation of the reality and the demystification of the cultural tradition The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials The poems forming Ted Hughes's Birthday Letters describe his relationship with Sylvia Plath A schoolboy wizard performs his first tricks in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone -
Contemporary
The Amber Spyglass completes Philip Pullman's trilogy, His Dark Materials
