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Period: 1200 BCE to 455
Classic Period
-Homeric Period:
Oral tradition
Tales of warriors and princes, pirates, herioc deeds, etc.
Famous author: Homer("The Iliad" and "The Odyssey")
Mythology
-Classical Greek Period
Playwrights and philosophers
The golden age: democracy, art, drama, architecture, etc.
Famous authors: Plato("The Republic"), Socrates and Aristotle.
-Classical Roman Period
Rome conquers Greece
Roman Empire is influenced by Greek culture
Famous authors: Horace, Ovid, Virgil. -
Period: 455 to 1485
Medieval Period
-Old enlish period(Anglo-saxons)
Dark Ages, Rome falls.
Different ethnic groups settle throughout Europe. (Vikings. Celts, Anlgosaxons)
Famous works: "Beowulf", "The Wanderer", and "The Seafarer"
-Middle English Period
Crusades
French chivaric romances (Chretien de Troyes)
Scholastic and Theological Works
Dante "The Divine Comedy" -
Period: 1485 to
Renaissance
-Early Tudor Period:
Henry VII wins war
Martin Luther creates Protestantism
Anglicanism
Poet, Edmund Spenser
-Elizabethan Period
Reign of Queen Elizabeth
Famous authors: William Shakespeare("Hamlet", "King Lear"), Marlowe, John Donne.
-Caroline age
Famous authors: John Milton("Paradise Lost"), George Herbert ("Love III")
Reign of Charles I
-Commonwealth Period
Oliver Cromwell takes over England -
Period: to
Enlightenment (Neoclassical Period)
Influence of Classical literature(Greek)
Use of logic and disdain of superstitions(Influcence of Socrates)
-Restoration Period
British crown returns to power
Authors: John Locke, Sir William Temple
-Augustan Age
Influence of Horace and Virgil
Authors: Alexander Pope, Steele, Swift
Philosopher: Voltaire
-Age of Johnson
Transitional period to Romanticism
Authors: Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Robert Burns, Ben Franklin, Thomas Jefferson. -
Period: to
Romantic Period
Recurrent topics: Imagination, nature and individuality.
Authors: Coleridge, Jane Austen, John Keats, William Blake, Mary Shelley("Frankenstein")
Trascendental Period
Gothic writing authors: Ann Radcliffe, Monk Lewis, Bram Stroker("Dracula"), Edgar Allan Poe("The Black cat", "The Fall of the House of Usher") -
Period: to
Victorian Period and the XIX Century
Queen Victoria's Reign
Sentimental novels and oppression, conservative society
Authors: Charles Dickens("Great Expectations" "Oliver Twist"), Bronte sisters("Wuthering Heights" "Jane Eyre"), Emily Dickinson.
Aetheticism and Decadence
Authors: Oscar Wilde("The portrait of Dorian Gray") -
Period: to
Modern Period
Authors: W. B Yeats, Virginia Woolf("To the lighthouse", "The lady through the looking glass"), Wilfren Owen.
War Poetry, Feminism, Jazz Age
Authors: Scott Fitzgerald("The Great Gatby"), Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner.
Harlem Reinassance
Realism -
Period: to
Post Modern Period
Authors: T.S Elliot("The Waste Land"), Alan Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, Sandra Cisneros, Jorge Luis Borges, Gabriel Garcia Marquez("Cien Anos de Soledad" "Relatos de un Naufrago")
Magic Realism
Surrealism
Multiculturalism
Metafiction
Fragmented Poetry