History of

English literature

British Literature

Kdirbaeva Gulzira

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English literature is the study of literature written in the English language. The writers do not necessarily have to be from England but can be from all over the world.English literature dates back more than five centuries. It represents writers not only from different parts of the world and time periods, but it covers every major genre and style of writing as well.

VICTORIAN PERIOD And The 19th Century (c. 1832-1901)

THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (1200 BCE -455 CE)

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD(455 CE-1485 CE)

The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period(c. 1660-1790)

ROMANTIC PERIOD (c. 1790-1830)

MODERN PERIOD (c. 1914-1945?)

POSTMODERN PERIOD (c. 1945? onward)

THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION (c. 1485-1660 CE) Periods of the English Literature

Periods in literature are named for rulers, historical events, intellectual or political or religious movements, or artistic styles. Most literary periods therefore have multiple names. What's worse, some of these names are debated.

THE CLASSICAL PERIOD

(1200 BCE -455 CE)

I. HOMERIC or HEROIC

PERIOD (1200-800

BCE)

II. CLASSICAL GREEK

PERIOD(800-200 BCE)

III. CLASSICAL ROMAN

PERIOD(200 BCE-455 CE)

IV. PATRISTIC PERIOD(c. 70

CE-455 CE)

I. THE OLD ENGLISH (ANGLO-SAXON)

PERIOD (428-1066)

The so-called "Dark Ages" (455 CE -799 CE) occur when

Rome falls and barbarian tribes move into Europe.

Franks, Ostrogoths, Lombards, and Goths settle in the ruins of Europe and

the Angles, Saxons, and Jutes migrate to Britain,

displacing native Celts into Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. Early Old English poems such

as Beowulf, The Wanderer, and The

Seafareroriginate sometime late in the Anglo-Saxon

period.

II. THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD (c. 1066-1450 CE)

In 1066, Norman French armies invade and conquer

England under William I. This marks the end of the

AngloSaxon hierarchy and the emergence of the Twelfth Century Renaissance(c. 1100-

1200 CE). French chivalric romances--such as works by

Chretien de Troyes--and French fables--such as the

works ofMarie de France and

Jeun de Meun--spread in popularity. Abelard and other

humanists produce great scholastic and theological

works.

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD(455 CE-1485 CE)

Old English Literature 500 -1100

Beowulf is an epic poem of Old English literature. It consists of 3182 lines. The author is unknown

Beowulf fights with three

monsters. First of them is Grendel.

Beowulf tears Grendel‘s arm

from his body at the shoulder and Grendel runs to his home in the

marshes and slowly dies.

1st battle. Grendel

Beowulf kills Grendel with his bare hands and

Grendel's mother with a sword of a

giant that he found in her lair.

2nd battleGrendel’s mother

After fifty years he become a king to his country. And goes to fight with a dragon

Beowulf returns home and eventually becomes king of his own people. One day,

fifty years after, he lighted with dragon, wounded and

died

3rd battle Dragon

Time Span, Terms, Movements, Examples

600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Beowulf

1200-1500 Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer

1500-1660 The English Renaissance

1500-1558 Tudor Period Humanist Era Thomas More, John Skelton

1558-1603 Elizabethan Period High Renaissance Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare

1603-1625 Jacobean Period Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets

Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, Emilia Lanyer

1625-1649 Caroline Period John Ford, John Milton

1649-1660 The Commonwealth & The Protectorate

Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style J.Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes

1660-1700 The Restoration John Dryden

1700-1800 The Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age

Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson

1785-1830 Romanticism The Age of Revolution William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Brontës

1830-1901 Victorian Period Early, Middle and Late Victorian Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson

1901-1960 Modern Period The Edwardian Era (1901-1910); The Georgian Era (1910-1914)

G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Eliot

1960- Postmodern and Contemporary Period

Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt