ENGLISH LITERATURE

English Literature

The history of English Literature starts with the Anglo-Saxons and Germanic settlers in Anglo-Saxon England in the 5th century, c.450. The oldest English literature was in Old English which is the earliest form of English and is a set of Anglo-Frisian dialects. Beowolf is the earliest and most popular work in Old English Literature.

The Renaissance and Reformation (1485-1660 CE)

The Medieval Period (455 CE-1485 CE)

The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period (1660-1790 CE

The Romantic Period (1790-1830 CE)

The Classical Period (1200 BCE-455 BCE)

The medieval era, often called The Middle Ages or the Dark Ages, began around 476 A.D. following a great loss of power throughout Europe by the Roman Emperor.

The Eighteenth Century in England is called the Classical Age or the Augustan Age in literature. It is also called the Age of Good Sense or the Age of Reason.

Neoclassical literature was written between 1660 and 1798. This time period is broken down into three parts: the Restoration period, the Augustan period, and the Age of Johnson. Writers of the Neoclassical period tried to imitate the style of the Romans and Greeks.

The cultural, artistic, political and economic “rebirth” in Europe, referred to as the Renaissance, occurred during the 14th-17th centuries.)

Romanticism was an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century.

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English Literature

The Medieval Period (4The Victorian Period and the 19th Century (1832-1901 CE)

The Modern Period (1914-1954 CE)

The Postmodern Period (1945-onward)

-French culture in the post-Conquest era, followed by the re-emergence of native English works – by such authors as Chaucer, Langland, and Malory, and numerous anonymous authors, – marked the Middle English period of English literature.

The term was applied to a whole host of movements, many in art, music, and literature, that reacted against modernism, and are typically marked by revival of traditional elements and techniques.

Modernist writers in general rebelled against clear-cut storytelling and formulaic verse from the 19th century.

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