Aug 09, 2015
450-1066: Old English (or Anglo Saxon) Chaucer, drama, romance, and verse
1066-1500: Middle English Period
1500-1660: The Renaissance ==> A period of rebirth… William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe, John Donne
1558-1603: Elizabeth Age
1603-1625: Jacobean Age
1625:1649: Caroline Age
1649-1660: Commonwealth
1600-1785: The Neoclassical Period== > The Regency Period In England...Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Daniel Defoe, Horace Walpole, Oliver Goldsmith, Edward Young
1660-1700: The Restoration
1700:1745: The Augustan Age (or Age of Pope)
1745-1785: The Age of Sensibility (or Age of Johnson
1785-1830: The Romantic Period (includes the Gothic Period)== > Jane Austen, Mary Shelley, William Blake, Samuel Taylor, Coleridge, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Ann Radcliffe
1832-1901: The Victorian Period The Great Age of the English Novel: realistic, thickly plotted and long. Emily Bronte, Oscar Wide, Alfred Tennyson, Elizabeth
Browning
1901-1914: The Edwardian Period Virginia Woolf. E.M Forster, D.H Lawrence
1910-1936: The Georgian Period
1914-1945: The Modern Period
1945-Present: Postmodern Period Ted Hughes, Samuel Beckett, John Obsborne
Main Characteristics of Literary Periods
Let’s see some of the most crucial characteristics of the most important literary Periods:
Middle Ages The Literary writings are in Old English. The Norman Conquest of England in 1066 is the beginning of 200 years of Freench domination in English letters. Chaucer’s “The General Prologue to the Canterbury Tales” as long been recognized as one of the greatest masterpieces of English Literature.
Main Characteristics of Literary Periods
Let’s see some of the most crucial characteristics of the most important literary Periods:
Rennaissance
A cultural movement which began in Italy during the 15th century and spread about Europe during the 17th century. Education was not offered for girls, except for daughters of nobility and puritans, and even the subjects were focused on chastity and housewifery.
Main Characteristics of Literary Periods
Let’s see some of the most crucial characteristics of the most important literary Periods:
Neoclassical Period
Neoclassical literature was written in period were social order was undergoing tremendous changes. In the so called Enlightenment period, people believe that natural passions aren’t necessarily good; natural passions must be subordinated to social needs and must be strictly controlled.
Romantic Period
While literature from the classical period was based on reason, order in rules, literature and art from the romantic period was based on emotion, adventure and imagination. The name “romantic” itself comes from the term “romance” which is genre of prose or poetic heroic narrative originating in medieval literature.
Modern Period
The early modern period is a term initially used by historians to refer mainly to the period roughly from 1500 to 1750 in Western Europe. Theatrical power flourishes this period.
Post-Modern PeriodThe term Post modern period literature is used to describe certain tendencies in post-world war II literature. Although it is a constinuation of modernist period (paradoxes and fragmentation), modernist literature seeks meaning in a chaotic world whereas postmodernist literature is not only avoiding the possibility of meaning, at the same time it is parodying it.