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1 Old english (450 - 1066)
It is characterized by being very rhythmic main literary works and authors:
Literary works:
Beowful: This is a epic poem, it is the first great work of the germanic literature Authors:
Caedmon, Cynewulf, Beda -
1066
2 Middle english (1066 - 1500)
This literature reflects the character of the Anglo-Saxon people, in ancient English the harshness of a warrior culture was reflected. this time is related to epic poetry. Literary Works and authors:
Counterbury tales of Geoffrey Chaucer.
God and creatures, autor Duns Scotus. -
1500
3 English renaissance
This period is divided in three parts:
1 Elizabethan (1558-1660)
The main characteristic is drama Literary Works and authors:
The faerie queen of Edmund Spenser
2 Jacobean (1603- 1625)
The main Works are about revenge Literary Works and authors:
The Duchess of Malfi, of John Webster 3 Caroline (1625-1649)
In this literary Works are seen topics like vanity, ingeuity and metaphysics Literary Works and authors:
The cavalier poets, Thomas Carew -
4 Purition (1653 - 1660)
It is characterized by censorship and moralism, the most prominent poetic form was satire Literary Works and authors:
The complet angler of Izaac Walton -
5. Restauration age (1660-1700)
It was a golden age for poetry, the poems were aboot political issues according to their time. Literary Works and authors:
Paradaise lost of John Milton
An essay concerning human understanding his author is John Luck -
6. 18th century (1700 - 1798)
The novel was the predominant genre, the main genres were satirical, realistic and sentimental. Literary Works and authors:
Rape of the lock of Alexander Pope
Robinson Crusoe of Daniel Defoe -
7 Romanticism (1798 - 1837)
It is divided in two parts:
1 Augustan age:
there was a fast develop to the novel, this period was characterizated for the satire, the politics, philosophy,poetry and melodrama. Age of the sensibility
were very important gothic and sensibility novels. Literary Works and authors:
The Castle of Otranto of Horace Walpole -
8 Victorian (1837 - 1901)
stands out the elevation of the moral level, social improvements, a humanitarian spirit, and the lack of humor. Literary Works and authors:
Tess of the d'Urberville his author is Tomas Haray
A Tale of Two Cities of Charles Dickens
Wuthering Heights her author is Emily Brontë -
9 Modern literature (1901 - 1940)
Disillusionment with attitudes of certainty and belief in the idea of objective truth. Literary Works and authors:
Peter Pan of JM Barrie
The Waves of Virginia Woolf -
10 Post moderns (1940 - 2000)
Breaks with the norms of realism, has a dependence of the narrative techniques such as fragmentation and paradox. Literary Works and authors:
Under the volcano of Malcom Lowry -
11 Contemporany (centuries XVII – XXI)
It period has a more direct and personal language. Literary Works and authors:
Atonement of Ian McEwan
