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Chronological Overview of English literature

Sir Thomas------SonnetsHenry Howard -----Blank verse Poetry works-----'Tottel's Miscellany'Significant works Thomas Hoby’s Castiglione , Thomas, North’s Plutarch, Edmund Spenser----The Shapaheardes Calander, Philip Sidney’s ‘Archadia’,Walter Raleigh’, ‘Ben Johnson’

Poetry

• Heroic (beowulf)
• Elegiac( the seafarer)
• Lyric (caedmon`s hymn)

Prose

• Latin (bede´s history of the english church and people)
• Old english(the anglo-saxon chronicle)

• Early Tudor Period (1485-1558)
• Elizabethan Period (1558-1603) J
• acobean Period(1603-1625) Caroline Age (1625-1649)
• Commonwealth Period/ Puritan Interregnum(1649-1660)

• Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800 BCE)
• Classical Greek Period (800-200 BCE)
• Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-455 BCE)
• Patristic Period (c.70 CE-455 CE)

• Restoration Period (1660-1700)
• The Augustan Age (1700-1750)
• The Age of Johnson (1750-1790)

• The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period(423-1066 CE)

• The Middle English Period (c.1066-1450 CE)

The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period

The Classical Period

The Renaissance and Reformation

The Medieval Period

1790

1660 CE

455 CE

1200 BCE

1485 CE

Poetry(Geoffrey Chaucer)

• Courtly love poetry
• The famous 'Canterbury Tales'
• Lyric (caedmon`s hymn)

William Langland's famous religious

• secular and religious prose.

Moral works, works of miracles and interludes.

• 'Everyman'

John Dryden---heroic poem, ‘Astra Radix’ John Milton----famous Paradise Lost John Locke----The Essay Concerning Human Understanding Daniel Defoe--prose narrative---‘Robinson Crusoe’

Chronological Overview of English literature

The most notable novelistsD.H. Lawrence y Virginia Woolf (The Love Song)The most important writers P.G. Wodehouse and Agatha Christie. cuentos de Beatrix Potter (The Tale of Peter Rabbit – 1901) J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan – 1911). Noted poets Thomas Hardy (The Man He Killed – 1902) and A.E. Housman (A Shropshire Lad – 1896).

The brilliant poetry geniuses William Blake, William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor The Romantics Shelley, Keats and Byron

• Sentimental Novels & Intellectual Movements
• like Aestheticism and the Decadence.

• Romantic poets & Gothic writings

• Metafiction, Multiculturalism, Magic Poetry, etc.

• Modernist Writers, Realism, etc.

The Modern Period

The Postmodern Period

The Romantic Period

The Victorian Period

Onward

1914

1790

1945

1832

1830

1901

Orwell's most important contributionNineteen Eighty-fourimportant writers Aldous Huxley(Brave New World) Caryl Churchill (Cloud Nine (1979) y Top Girls (1982). Ted Hughes(The Iron Man) Roald Dahl(James and the Giant Peach y Charlie and the Chocolate Factory)

Rudyard Kipling ---Kim, Life’s handicapContributions literature EM Foster’s ‘A Passage to India’, H.G Wells, The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, First Man on the Moon’