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Period: 450 to 1066
Old English Literature
Old English literature, or Anglo-Saxon literature, encompasses the surviving literature written in Old English in Anglo-Saxon England, in the period after the settlement of the Saxons and other Germanic tribes in England (Jutes and the Angles) c. 450, after the withdrawal of the Romans, and "ending soon after the Norman Conquest" in 1066. Oral tradition was very strong in early English culture and most literary works were written to be performed. Epic poems were very popular, Beowulf. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English Literature
In this period religious literature continued to enjoy popularity and Hagiographies were written, adapted and translated: for example, The Life of Saint Audrey, Eadmer's (c. 1060 – c. 1126).to present the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. It was also the first historiography written in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.Chaucer is best known today for The Canterbury Tales. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th to the 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later and the Elizabethan era in the second half of the 16th century is usually regarded as the height of the English Renaissance.
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Period: 1558 to
Elizabethan Period
Is the epoch in the tudor period of the history of England during the reign of queen Elizabeth, Edmund Spenser (c. 1552–1599) was one of the most important poets of the Elizabethan period, author of The Faerie Queene (1590 and 1596), an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. Another major figure, Sir Philip Sidney (1554–1586), was an English poet, whose works include Astrophel and Stella, -
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Jacobean Period
In the early 17th century Shakespeare wrote the so-called "problem plays", as well as a number of his best known tragedies, including Macbeth and King Lear.[45] In his final period, Shakespeare turned to romance or tragicomedy and completed three more major plays, including The Tempest. After Shakespeare's death, the poet and dramatist, Ben Jonson (1572–1637). -
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Late Renaissance
Poetry
The Metaphysical poets John Donne (1572–1631) and George Herbert (1593–1633) were still alive after 1625, and later in the 17th century a second generation of metaphysical poets were writing, including Richard Crashaw (1613–1649), Andrew Marvell (1621–1678), Thomas Traherne (1636 or 1637–1674) and Henry Vaughan (1622–1695). The Cavalier poets were another important group of 17th-century poets, who came from the classes that supported King Charles I during the English Civil War (1642–51). -
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Restoration Age
Restoration literature includes both Paradise Lost and the Earl of Rochester's Sodom, the sexual comedy of The Country Wife and the moral wisdom of Pilgrim's Progress, the beginning of the restoration began the process of social transformation there was a rapid development of science John Dryden (1631–1700) laid the foundation of the classical school of poetry in england, Alexander Pope (1688–1744) was heavily influenced by Dryden. -
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Augustan Literature
The term Augustan literature derives from authors of the 1720s and 1730s themselves, who responded to a term that George I of England preferred for himself. While George I meant the title to reflect his might, they instead saw in it a reflection of Ancient Rome's transition from rough and ready literature to highly polished literature. poet James Thomson (1700–1748) produced his melancholy The Seasons (1728–30) and Edward Young (1681–1765) wrote his poem Night Thoughts (1742). -
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Age of Sensibility
Also sometimes described as the "Age of Johnson" Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), A Dictionary of the English Language was published in 1755, and it had a far-reaching effect on Modern English and has been described as "one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship.
Frances Burney (1752–1840) wrote Evelina, one of the first novels of manners,Fanny Burney's novels "were enjoyed and admired by Jane Austen". Oliver Goldsmith (1728–1774), Richard Brinsley Sheridan (1751–1816). -
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Romanticism
Romanticism was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century, romanticism arrived later in other parts of the English-speaking world, the Romantic period was one of major social change in England and Wales.
Mary Shelley (1797–1851) is remembered as the author of Frankenstein (1818) - Thomas De Quincey (1785–1859) is best known for his Confessions of an English Opium-Eater (1821). -
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Victorian Literature
The novel became the leading literary genre in English,women played an important part in this rising popularity both as authors and as readers, Charles Dickens (1812–1870) Vanity Fair (1847) - Elizabeth Gaskell (1810–1865) North and South - Nathaniel Hawthorne's (1804–1864) The Scarlet Letter (1850) - Bram Stoker's horror story Dracula (1897) Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835–1910) Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884). -
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Modern Literature
English literary modernism developed in the early twentieth-century out of a general sense of disillusionment with Victorian era attitudes of certainty, conservatism, and belief in the idea of objective truth,important British writers between the World Wars, include the Scottish poet Hugh MacDiarmid (1892–1978), who began publishing in the 1920s, and novelist Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), Mrs Dalloway (1925) and To the Lighthouse (1927). -
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Post - Moderns
Among British writers in the 1940s and 1950s were poet Dylan Thomas and novelist Graham Greene whose works span the 1930s to the 1980s, while Evelyn Waugh, W.H. Auden continued publishing into the 1960s, "When (if) modernism petered out and postmodernism began has been contested almost as hotly as when the transition from Victorianism to modernism occurred" -
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Contemporary Age
Authors: James Joyce,Virginia Woolf, Joseph Conrad, D.H. Lawrence, Bernard Shaw, J.K. Rowling who wrote the highly successful Harry Potter series. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro nobel prize (2017)