Task 2 Chronological Overview

Post-modernism (1945-present)

1945 BCE

This period is characterized by the introduction of new literary styles, metafiction, and multiculturalism. Some writers of this age were Gabriel Garcia Marquez and his work “One Hundred years of solitude, John Fowles, The French Lieutenant’s Woman, Wole Soyinka, Season of Anomy, Paulo Coelho, “The Alchemist”, Stephen King “Riding the Ballet”.

The modern period (1901-1945 CE): Edwardian period (1901-1910), Georgian period (1910-1936)

1901 BCE

Features: expression free to write verse, multiculturalism, creativity, and originality to write.
Writers: poets, Yeats. T.S Elioth, Dylan Thomas, Seamus, and Heaney.
Novelists: James Joyce, DH, Lawrence, and Virginia Woolf.
Dramatists: Noel Coward and Samuel Beckett.

The Victorian period and the 19th century (1832-1901 CE).

1832 BCE

Main features: social, economic, religious, and intellectual issues, industrial revolution.
Writers, Elizabeth Barret, Robert Browning, Alfred Lord, Mathew Arnold, Charles Dicken, Charlotte Bronte, Georgy Eliot, Tomas Hardy, and Victor Hugo.

The romantic period (1790- 1930 CE)

1790 BCE

Main features: poetry and prose (personal feeling), nature mysteries, and imagination.
Writers and workers: William Blake, Willian Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor, John Austen

The Restoration period (1660-1700),

1660 BCE

The Augustan age (1700-1750), and The age of Jhonson (1750-1790). Writers such as john Dryden who was noted as a prominent literary figure of this age, poems such as “Astra Radix”, Mac Flecknoe, “essay on criticism”, “Oliver Goldsmith’s, The Traveller, and The Dessert village, John Milton, was another prominent writer of this period, as well as Thomas Grey, William Blake, Robert Burns, and Jhon Locke

Elizabeth age a.k.a The Golden Age of English literature (16th century to Early 17th Century)

1558 BCE

This age was considered the Golden age of English literature, the major workers of this age were,
Sir Thomas, William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, Sir Walter Raleigh, Ben Jonson, John Donne, Francis Bacon, and others.

The Renaissance and Reformation period (1485-166 CE)

1485 BCE

In this age assisted the rediscovery of classical philosophy, literature, and art.
Early Tudor Period (1485-1558)
Elizabethan Period (1558-1603)
Jacobean Period(1603-1625)
Caroline Age (1625-1649)
Commonwealth Period/
Puritan Interregnum(1649-1660)

The middle English period (1066-1500 CE)

1066 BCE

It was highlighted for the England population, most of them were bilingual and trilingual, the main works were “Canterbury Tales”, The House of Fame, and The Book of the Duchess” all of the authority of Geoffrey Chaucer. There were other works such as “Piers Plowman” by Willian Langland”, and “Everyman” was a noted morality play of this age.

The old English literature period: (450-1066 CE)

450 BCE

Represented the age of Germanic tradition Anglo-Saxon, highlighted the first narratives poems, Beowulf and Widshit. The writers highlighted in this age were Cynewulf and Caedmon.