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Old English Period
Old English was not static, and its usage covered a period of 700 years, from the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain in the 5th century to the late 11th century, some time after the Norman invasion. Bede, The Venerable (673? -735) English monk and historian. He is the author of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum ‘Ecclesiastical history of the English people’ which is the main historical source for the Old English period. -
1066
Middle English Period
Middle English (abbreviated to ME) was a form of the English language spoken after the Norman conquest (1066) until the late 15th century. English underwent distinct variations and developments following the Old English period. Chaucer, Geoffrey (c.1340-1400) [literary writing] The major poet of England in the late Middle Ages and the most significant writer before Shakespeare. He wrote The allegorical Book of the duchess (1369). The house of fame and The legend of good women. -
1500
English Renaissance Period
The English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th century to the early 17th century. It is associated with the pan-European Renaissance that is usually regarded as beginning in Italy in the late 14th century. Here we had the Elizabethan Period, The Jacobean Period and the Carolina Period. C. S. Lewis – Narnia Chronicles
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Puritan Period
Puritanism, a religious reform movement in the late 16th and 17th centuries that sought to “purify” the Church of England of remnants of the Roman Catholic “popery” that the Puritans claimed had been retained after the religious settlement reached early in the reign of Queen Elizabeth I. Some authors are William Bradford, John Winthrop, and Edward Taylor. -
Restoration Age Period
The Restoration period of English literature roughly lasts from 1660 to 1688. It begins with Charles II returning to the throne following the rule of various republican governments that ruled England from 1649 to 1659 after Charles I was executed. John Dryden, 1631 – 1700. English poet, dramatist, and literary critic who so dominated the literary scene of his day that it came to be known as the Age of Dryden. -
18th Century Period
Divided into 2 periods the Augustan and the Age of Sensibility. The 18th century refers to literature (poetry, drama, satire, and novels) produced in Europe during this period. The 18th century saw the development of the modern novel as literary genre, Daniel Defoe's 1719 Robinson Crusoe is probably the best known. Subgenres of the novel during the 18th century were the epistolary novel, the sentimental novel, histories, the gothic novel and the libertine novel. George Walker 1772 – 1847. -
Romanticism Period
Romanticism. Romantic Npvel and Romantic Poetry, (also known as the Romantic era) was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1890. George Gordon Byron 1788 - 1824, known as lord Byron. The Giaour (1813) -
Victorian Period
The Victorian era was the period of Queen Victoria's reign, from 20 June 1837 until her death on 22 January 1901. It can also be called a fusion of romantic and realist style of writing. Though the Victorian Age produced two great poets Alfred Lord Tennyson and Robert Browning, the age is also remarkable for the excellence of its prose. Emily Jane Brontë 1818 - 1848, Stormy Peaks. -
Modern Literature Period
Literary modernism, or modernist literature, has its origins in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, mainly in Europe and North America, and is characterized by a self-conscious break with traditional ways of writing, in both poetry and prose fiction. And much modernist writing engages with the technological advances and societal changes of modernity moving into the 20th century. Knut Hamsun (1859–1952): Hunger (1890); Luigi Pirandello (1867–1936): The Late Mattia Pascal (1904). -
Post Moderns Period
Postmodern literature is a form of literature which is marked, both stylistically and ideologically, by a reliance on such literary conventions as fragmentation, paradox, unreliable narrators, often unrealistic and downright impossible plots, games, parody, paranoia, dark humor and authorial self-reference. Many of the well-known postmodern novels deal with World War II, one of the most famous of which being Joseph Heller's Catch-22. -
Contemporary Period
Works of contemporary literature reflect a society's social and/or political viewpoints, shown through realistic characters, connections to current events and socioeconomic messages. Philip Milton Roth 1933 – 2018. Goodbye, Columbus (1959), Portnoy's Complaint (1969)
