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Old English- Golban, (2007),
Old English is also known as Anglo-Saxon and is derived from the names of two of the Germanic tribes that invaded England during the fifth century.
Express religious faith and give moral instruction through literature
Oral tradition of literature -Poetry is the dominant genre
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1066
Middle English- William Langland
was a form of the English language, spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. English underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period.
"The Canterbury Tales" de Geoffrey Chaucer, la traducción de la Biblia,
A poetic phrase used in place of the usual name of a person or thing. -
1500
English Renaissance- Oliver Bowden
Elizabethan -Jacobean- Carolina
Was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century.
Styles / Genres Poetry Sonnets -
Restoration Age
of the English monarchy took place in the Stuart period. It began in 1660 when the English, Scottish and Irish monarchies were all restored under King Charles II. This followed the Interregnum, also called the Protectorate, that followed the Wars of the Three Kingdoms.
Styles / Genre -Satire
Uses irony and exaggeration to poke fun at human faults and foolishness in order to correct human behavior
Novels becoming better known than poetry
Essays, Letters, diaries, biographies, Notes -
18th Century- John Dryden
Augustan- Age of sensibility
During the 18th century, elements of Enlightenment thinking culminated in the American, French, and Haitian revolutions. This was an age of violent slave trading, and global human trafficking. The reactions against monarchical and aristocratic power helped fuel the revolutionary responses against it throughout the century. -
Romanticism- William Wordsworth
As a term to cover the most distinctive writers who flourished in the last years of the 18th century and the first decades of the 19th, “Romantic” is indispensable but also a little misleading: there was no self-styled “Romantic movement” at the time, and the great writers of the period did not call themselves Romantics. -
Victorian
is literature, mainly written in English, during the reign of Queen Victoria (1837–1901) (the Victorian era). It was preceded by Romanticism and followed by the Edwardian era (1901–1910).
While in the preceding Romantic period, poetry had been the dominant genre, it was the novel that was most important in the Victorian period. Charles Dickens. -
Post Moderns
Is a broad movement that developed in the mid- to late 20th century across philosophy, the arts, architecture, and criticism and that marked a departure from modernism.[1][2][3] The term has also more generally been applied to the historical era following modernity and the tendencies of this era. -
Contemporary
is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day. ... Works of contemporary literature reflect a society's social and/or political viewpoints, shown through realistic characters, connections to current events and socioeconomic messages.