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450 BCE
Old English (c. 500 - c. 1100)
It is the Western Germanic languages, and the closest relatives are old Frisian and Old Saxon. Like other ancient Germanic languages, it is very different from modern English and difficult for modern English speakers to understand without study. Within ancient English grammar nouns, adjectives, pronouns and verbs have many endings and inflectional forms, English inscriptions were written using a sonic system, but from the 8th century this was replaced by a version of the Latin alphabet. -
1066
Middle English 1066- 1500
Middle English 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. Scholarly opinion varies, but the Oxford English Dictionary specifies the period when Middle English was spoken as being from 1150 to 1500 This stage of the development of the English language roughly followed the High to the Late Middle Ages. -
1550
The English Renaissance 1550–1660
English Renaissance was a cultural and artistic movement in England dating from the late 15th 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 Like most of northern Europe, England saw little of these developments until more than a century later The dominant art forms of the English Renaissance were literature and music. Visual arts in the English Renaissance were much less significant than -
Puritan Age 1620-1660
Puritan literature was direct and focused on offering instruction from a Biblical point of view. However, Puritans didn't believe in writing for entertainment; rather, they thought of writing as a tool to reach people with the story of God. Works focused on realistic messages illustrating the idea that everyone was born a sinner and that his or her salvation had been pre-determined, a concept known as predestination. -
The Restoration Period in english literature 1660-1668
The most important and interesting aspects of literature is the way that it both responds to and is inevitably shaped by the political context in which it is written.Some of the best examples of this can be found in the Restoration period, which lasted from 1660 to around 1688. -
18th Century in English literature 1700
The age is also known as the Neoclassical period Writers of the time placed great emphasis on the original writings produced by classical Greek and Roman literature.The literature of this period imitated that of the age of Caesar Augustus, writers such as Horace and Virgil, with classical influences appearing prevalent in poetry with the use of rhyming, and in prose with its satirical formwriters such as Horace and Virgil, with classical influences appearing prevalent in poetry -
Romanticism 1798-1832 Was a time of change
Romanticism (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 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature, preferring the medieval rather than the classical -
Victorian 1837-1901
Victorian literature : As is quite evident from the title the kind of literature that evolved during the reign of Queen Victoria is famously known as the Victorian era literature.The literature of the Victorian age (1837-1901) entered a new period after the romantic revival. The literature of this era was preceded by romanticism and was followed by modernism or realism. -
Modern 1900-1961
The Modern Period in English Literature occupied the years from shortly after the beginning of the twentieth century through roughly 1965. the period was marked by sudden and unexpected breaks with traditional ways of viewing and interacting with the world. -
Postmodern 1945-1970
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, Postmodern authors tend to reject outright meanings in their novels, stories and poems, and, instead, highlight and celebrate the possibility of multiple meanings, or a complete lack of meaning, within a single literary work -
Contemporary 1950 to present 2020
The word contemporary means living, belonging to or occurring in the present. So when we talk about contemporary literature, we are talking about literature that is being written in the now about the now, is defined as literature written after World War II through the current day -
Bibliography 2000
Bibliography : In the 12th century, the word started being used for "the intellectual activity of composing books." The 17th century then saw the emergence of the modern meaning, that of description of books. Currently, the field of bibliography has expanded to include studies that consider the book as a material object
