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1601 BCE
Period Neoclasical Literary (1600-1785)
subdividided into ages Restoration.
Topic about the puritanical age.
Restoration comedies( comedies of manner)
play wrote like William Congreve and John Dryden, Daniel Defoe. -
1501 BCE
Period Renaissance literary (1500-1660)
This period were subdivided into four part:
Elizabeth Age (1558-1603) It was the Golden age of english Drama.
some figures were:willam shakespeare, Edmund Spencer,Francis Bacon, Christopher Marlowe.
step second,The Jacobean Age -(1603-1625)
It's name for the reing of James I. step third: The Caroline Age covers the reing of charles I. step four: The common wealth period ended of the english civil war and the restorationof the stuart monarchy. -
1450 BCE
Period Old English (450-1066)
Anglo-saxon
Topics about legal, medical,Religious.
works, (Beowfulf by poets Caedmon and Cynewulf) -
1066
Period Middle English Literature (1066-1500)
The most popular is Epic poem "Beowulf", " The canterbury tale" wrote by Geoffrey Chaucer. -
Period Romantic literary (1785-1832)
(Jhon Keats)
, the Rime of the ancient Mariner, Wrote by samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Topic "Dissapointting and melancholy" -
Period Victorian literary (1832-1906)
Poets: Roberth and Elizabeth Barret Browning.
Prose: Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, George Eliot(Mary Ann Evans).
Reing of Queen Victory.
Topic: Great social , Religious, Intelectual and economic issues, Voting rights. -
Period Edwardian (1901-1914)
Named by King Edward VII.
The outbreak of world war I.
Clasic novelist such as Joseph Conrad, ford Madox,Henrry James.
Poets: Alfred Noyes and William Buttler Yeats.
Dramatist: James Barrie,George Bernard, Shaw and John Galsworthy. -
The Georgian Period (1910-1936)
Reign of George V
Georgian Poetry anthologized by Edward March.
Topic. Rural or Pastoral in nature.
the Georgian poets; Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield. W.H Davies and Rupert Brooke, Jane Austen. -
Modernist English Literature (1914-1945)
Workers William Butler Yeats, Virginia Wolfe, James Joyce and Lawrence.
topic. Wrote about of Death and disillusionment.
authors : Rupert Brooke "other poems, the proyect Gutenberg E-book of 1915" -
The Postmodern Period (1945-until nowadays)
Begins with the world war II ended.
somewriters were: Smuel Becket, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess,John Fowles,Lain Banks.
characteristics.
Alienation of individual, feelings of anxiety, multiple Genres,Irony, satire.
works include: something Happned, Good as Gold,by Joseph Heller.