The chronological overview of English literature

Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): 450–1066

450

Anglo-Saxon literature encompasses the literature written in the Anglo-Saxon language during the six hundred years of the Anglo-Saxon period of Great Britain, from the mid-5th century to the Norman Conquest of 1066.twelve are known by name from Medieval sources, Caedmon, Bede, Alfred, and Cynewulf. Old English prose works include legal writings, medical tracts, religious texts, and translations from Latin and other languages.

Middle English Period: 1066-1500

1066

This period started with the Norman Conquest in1066 and ended with the end of fifteenth century. There are two ages in this period. The span from 1066 to 1340 is called Anglos-Norman Period because the literature of that period was written mainly in Anglo-Norman, the French dialect spoken by the new ruling class of England.Major Writers and their Works: John Wyclif ,the father of English prose: Translation of the Bible in English(prose) 2. Geoffrey Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde, Canterbury Tales

Renaissance: 1500-1600

1500

The Elizabethan Era witnessed the flourishing of literature, especially drama: producing the so-called Elizabethan theatre. During this period the writer William Shakespeare made his appearance. At the end of the 16th century, English poetry was characterized by elaborate language and its allusions to the themes of classical mythology. Notable poets of the period include Edmund Spenser and Philip Sidney.

Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785

1600

Neoclassicism started in 1660 when the Stuarts returned to the throne and the Enlightenment was in full swing. When the neoclassical period was the predominant style, artists like Daniel Defoe and Samuel Johnson flourished. in 1798, however, marked the end of the neoclassical time period. These poems ended Neoclassicism and began the Romantic Age.Whereas Neoclassicism looked to the beauty of order, Romanticism later emphasized the individual and put more weight on the imaginative and personal.

Romantic Period: 1785-1832

1785

Expressed dissatisfaction with the current society, explored the human condition, celebrated nature, and greatly encouraged experimentation and creativity in the arts.Romantic Authors:William Wordsworth,William Blake,Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Percy Bysshe Shelley,John Keats,Lord Byron,Jane Austen,He created new literary genres,such as the box of customs,the historical novel,the legend, the gothic novel,the romantic drama and he initiated aesthetics in the lyric such as symbolism(Edgar Allan Poe)

Victorian Age: 1832-1901

1832

Characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growing state and economy, and Britain's status as the most. Many Victorian novelists—Charles Dickens, William Thackeray, Wilke Collins, George Eliot, Robert Louis Stevenson—wrote serial novelsNovels published in installments over a period of time., novels published in installments over a period of time.

Edwardian Period: 1901-1914

1901

Some of the best-known names are J. M. Barrie, Arnold Bennett, G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, John Galsworthy, Kenneth Grahame, M. R. James, Rudyard Kipling, A. A. Milne. this was a period when a great number of novels and short stories were being published, and a significant distinction between "highbrow" literature and popular fiction emerged. Among the most famous works of literary criticism was A. C. Bradley's Shakespearean Tragedy (1904).

Georgian Period: 1910-1936

1910

Here, we refer to the former description as it applies chronologically and covers, for example, the Georgian poets, such as Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke.Georgian poetry today is typically considered to be the works of minor poets anthologized by Edward Marsh.The themes and subject matter tended to be rural or pastoral in nature, treated delicately and traditionally rather than with passion.

Modern Period: Early 20th century

1937

The term Postmodern literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-World War II literature.Americans, like poets T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound and novelist William Faulkner, were other important modernists. British modernists include Joseph Conrad, E. M. Forster, Dorothy Richardson, Virginia Woolf, and D. H. Lawrence. In the mid-twentieth-century major writers started to appear in the various countries of the British Commonwealth, including several Nobel laureates.

Postmodern Period: Mid-20th century

1950

Developed in the mid- to late-twentieth century across many scholarly disciplines as a departure or rejection of modernism. postmodernism employs concepts such as hyperreality, simulacrum trace and difference, and rejects abstract principles in favor of direct experience. Literary theorists that crystalized postmodernity in literature include Roland Barthes,Jean Baudrillard,Jacques Derrida,Jorge Luis Borges,Fredric Jameson,Michel Foucault and Jean-François Lyotard