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450
Old English (Anglo - Saxon
-The period used to be known as the Middle Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of the Saxon invasion are scant.
-The invasion of Cela England around the year 450.
-Much of this period literature was oral.
-Christianity was re-established and there was a flowering of literature and language.
-The letters and the law were built
-Widsith and Beowulf are the first poems in English literature. -
Period: 450 to 1066
Old English (Anglo - Saxon)
-The period used to be known as the Middle Ages, mainly because written sources for the early years of the Saxon invasion are scant.
-The invasion of Cela England around the year 450.
-Much of this period literature was oral.
-Christianity was re-established and there was a flowering of literature and language.
-The letters and the law were built
-Widsith and Beowulf are the first poems in English literature. -
1066
Middle English
Period 1066-1500 Middle English texts feel much closer to Modern English in their grammar and vocabulary. 14th century, many modern phrases and sentences can be found by the spelling, which looks like an archaic version of modern English, as in the opening of The Canterbury Tales. -
Period: 1066 to 1500
Middle English
Period 1066-1500 Middle English texts feel much closer to Modern English in their grammar and vocabulary. 14th century, many modern phrases and sentences can be found by the spelling, which looks like an archaic version of modern English, as in the opening of The Canterbury Tales. -
1500
English Renaissance
(1603-1625) The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland, who also inherited the crown of England James I
- The works of John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton are known. (1625-1649) The Carolina Age, The reign of Charles I of England begins. John Milton and George Herbert are some of the notable figures.
-The Commonwealth Period (1649-1660) End of the English Civil War. Prose writers like Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley. -
Period: 1500 to
English Renaissance
(1603-1625) The Jacobean era was the period in English and Scottish history that coincides with the reign of James VI of Scotland, who also inherited the crown of England James I
- The works of John Donne, Shakespeare, Michael Drayton are known. (1625-1649) The Carolina Age, The reign of Charles I of England begins. John Milton and George Herbert are some of the notable figures.
-The Commonwealth Period (1649-1660) End of the English Civil War. Prose writers like Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley. -
Puritan Time Period. 1653-1660
It showed poets who called themselves poets of the case. As well as metaphysical poets who focused on the religious and mystical. This was known as cavalier poets as they dealt with themes of love. They were, Sucking, Cavalier, Herrick, Carew and Lovelace -
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Puritan Time Period.
The seventeenth century upto 1660 was dominated by Puritanism and it may be called puritan Age or the Age of Milton.
The Puritan movement in literature may call for the second and greatest Renaissance marked by the revival of the moral nature of man.
In the literature of the Puritan era we find the same confusion that we find in religion and politics.
At this time the use of language was made as a means of instruction. Since the different advantages were analyzed. -
Restoration Age Period
(1660-1700)
is known as the Restoration period or the Age of Dryden. Dryden was the representative writer of this period. The restoration of King Charles II in 1660 marks the beginning of a new era both in the life and the literature of England. -
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Restoration Age Period
People believed in the present, the real and the material. Writers, both in prose and in poetry, tacitly agreed upon the rules and principles according to which they should write. -
Romanticism
1798-1937 The movement was characterized by a celebration of nature and the common man, a focus on the individual experience, an idealization of women and an embrace of isolation and melancholy.
Prominent romantic writers include John Keats, William -
The Victorian Period
(1837-1901)
The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901.
The Victorian period is in sharp dispute with the Romantic period as being the most popular, influential and prolific period of all English (and world) literature. -
Modern Age Period
(1901-1940)
Modern literature can be divided into two approaches: Realism and radicalism.
Works written at the beginning of the First World War are evident.
It seeks to advance in traditional styles.
Notable writers of this period: James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley; and playwrights Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw. -
Post Modern Period
(1940-2000) Postmodern literature is literature characterized by a reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation, paradox, and the unreliable narrator; and is often (but not exclusively) defined as a style or trend that emerged in the post-World War II era. The writings of Beckett, Robbe Grillet, Borges, Marquez, Naguib Mahfouz and Angela Carter.world as historical constructions, and the problematic nature of language. -
Comtemporary Period
(1789-2021) Present- Experimentation and breaking traditional patterns -Various trends in genre literature: popular literature
- The reversal, the homage and the nod to tradition