Chronological overview of English literature

Chronological overview of English literature

Timeline

439 - 1066

The history of English Literature starts with the Germanic tradition of Anglo-Saxon settlers which were around 5th to 11th century AD

1660 - 1785

1500 - 1660

1066 - 1500

1785 - 1832

This period is often subdivided into four parts, including the Elizabethan Age (1558–1603), the Jacobean Age (1603–1625)the Caroline Age (1625–1649), and the Commonwealth Period (1649–1660)

Durante la era de la literatura inglesa medieval, las obras más estimadas también incluyen obras de moralidad, obras de milagros e interludios.

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

The Romantic age of the history of English literature experimented with the earlier forms of poetry and brought many interesting genres of prose fiction

The old english period

The middle english period

The renaissance period

The neo classical period

The romantic period

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Leverage Edu. (2021, December 18). History of English Literature PDF, Outline, Notes, Books. https://leverageedu.com/blog/history-of-english-literature/Burgess, Adam. "A Brief Overview of British Literary Periods." ThoughtCo, Jul. 29, 2021, thoughtco.com/british-literary-periods-739034.

By Magda Katherine Vargas Cruz

Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (450–1066) Literary Works of This Period: Beowulf, Widsith, Genesis, Exodus, The Wanderer, The Wife's Lament, The Husband's Message, The Battle of Maldon. Literary Features of the Age: Cynewulf and Caedmon. Topics: Christianity, paganism, heroic deeds, adventure. Characteristics: rhyme by alteration

Middle English Period (1066–1500) Literary Works of This Period: "Piers Plowman" y "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" Literary Features of the Age: Chaucer, Thomas Malory y Robert Henryson.. Topics: Christianity, paganism.

The Romantic Period (1785–1832) Literary Works of This Period: Boris Godunov, The Raven and Other Poems, polonaise, Wuthering Heights, La traviata. Literary Features of the Age: Wordsworth, Coleridge, William Blake, Lord Byron, John Keats, Charles Lamb, Mary Wollstonecraft, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Thomas De Quincey, Jane Austen y Mary Shelley. Matthew Lewis, Anne Radcliffe y William Beckford. Topics: feelings, symbolism, exploration of nature and the supernatural.

The Neoclassical Period (1600–1785) Literary Works of This Period: Paradise lost, gulliver`s travels, Dictionary of the english languaje Literary Features of the Age: William Congreve y John Dryden. Alexander Pope y Jonathan Swift Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Edmund Burke, Edward Gibbon, Hester Lynch Thrale, James Boswell, Samuel Johnson Henry Fielding, Samuel Richardson, Tobias Smollett y Laurence Sterne, William Cowper y Thomas Percy. Topics: satire, comedy, criticism, illustration, fiction.

The Renaissance (1500–1660) Literary Works of This Period: Romeo and Juliet, the prince, hamlet, utopia, Doctor Faustos, Don Quixote, essays, good love book, a midsummer night's dream. Literary Features of the Age: Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, Edmund Spenser, Sir Walter Raleigh, William Shakespeare. John Donne, Michael Drayton, John Webster, Elizabeth Cary, Ben Jonson and Lady Mary Wroth. John Milton, Robert Burton and George Herbert Thomas Fuller, Abraham Cowley, and Andrew Marvell Topics: poetry, intellectual revolution, science, satire.

Chronological overview of English literature

Timeline

1832-1901

This period is named for the reign of Queen Victoria, who ascended to the throne in 1837, and it lasts until her death in 1901

1914-1945

1910–1936

1901–1914

1945 - ?

The Georgian period usually refers to the reign of George V (1910–1936) but sometimes also includes the reigns of the four successive Georges from 1714–1830.

This period is named for King Edward VII and covers the period between Victoria’s death and the outbreak of World War I.

The modern period traditionally applies to works written after the start of World War I.

The postmodern period begins about the time that World War II ended. Many believe it is a direct response to modernism

The Victorian Period

The Edwardian Period

The Georgian Period

The modern period

The Postmodern Period

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Leverage Edu. (2021, December 18). History of English Literature PDF, Outline, Notes, Books. https://leverageedu.com/blog/history-of-english-literature/Burgess, Adam. "A Brief Overview of British Literary Periods." ThoughtCo, Jul. 29, 2021, thoughtco.com/british-literary-periods-739034.

By Magda Katherine Vargas Cruz

The Victorian Period (1832–1901) Literary Works of This Period: “Great Expectations”, “Jane Eyre”, “Wuthering Heights”, “Tess of the ’Urbervilles”, “The Ring and the Book” Literary Features of the Age: Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Christina Rossetti, Alfred Lord Tennyson, and Matthew Arnold, Thomas Carlyle, John Ruskin, Walter Pater, Charles Dickens, Charlotte and Emily Bronte, Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans), Anthony Trollope, Thomas Hardy, William Makepeace Thackeray, and Samuel Butler. Topics: Prose fiction, poetry, drama, Sentimental Novels & Intellectual Movements like Aestheticism and the Decadence.

The Edwardian Period (1901–1914) Literary Works of This Period: A Room With a View, The Man Who Was Thursday, Pygmalion, A Room With a View. Literary Features of the Age: Joseph Conrad, Ford Madox Ford, Rudyard Kipling, H.G. Wells, and Henry James, Alfred Noyes and William Butler, James Barrie, George Bernard Shaw, and John Galsworthy Topics: modernism, stream of consciousness, lyric poetry.

The Georgian Period (1910–1936) Literary Works of This Period: The Cool Web, The Great Lover, Literary Features of the Age: Ralph Hodgson, John Masefield, W.H. Davies, and Rupert Brooke. Topics: Aestheticism, modernism.

The Modern Period (1914 -1945) Literary Works of This Period: were blue , Platero and I, Free Verses. Literary Features of the Age: the novelists James Joyce, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, D.H. Lawrence, Joseph Conrad, Dorothy Richardson, Graham Greene, E.M. Forster, and Doris Lessing; the poets W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Seamus Heaney, Wilfred Owens, Dylan Thomas, and Robert Graves; and the dramatists Tom Stoppard, George Bernard Shaw, Samuel Beckett, Frank McGuinness, Harold Pinter, and Caryl Churchill Topics: Modernist Writers, Realism, narrative, verse, and drama

The postmodern Period (1945- ?) Literary Works of This Period: Catch-22 Lost in the Funhouse and Sot-Weed Factor by John Barth, Gravity’s Rainbow, V., and Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon, “factions” like Armies in the Night and In Cold Blood by Norman Mailer and Truman Capote, postmodern science fiction novels like Neoromancer by William Gibson, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut and many others. Literary Features of the Age: Samuel Beckett, Joseph Heller, Anthony Burgess, John Fowles, Penelope M. Lively, and Iain Banks. Topics: Metafiction, Multiculturalism, Magic Poetry, etc.