A Brief Overview of British Literature

0478 - 1066

OLD ENGLISH PERIOD

The anglos and the saxons came from Germanic tribes

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0731

Bade

The venerable bade in his monastery at jarrow, completes his history of the English church and people.

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0959 - 1132

Eddas

The material of eddas, taking shape in iceland, derives from earlier sources in Norway, Britain and burgundy

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0975 - 1025

Great work

Beouwulf, the first great work of germanic literature, mingles the legend of scandinavia with the experience in England of angles and saxons.

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1066 - 1500

THE MIDDLE ENGLISH PERIOD

In this time much of the writing were relligious

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1367

Will

A narrator who call himself will, and whose name may be Langland, begins the epic poem of piers plowman

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1387

Canterbury Tales

Chauser begins an ambitious scheme for 100 canterbury tales, of which he completes 24 by the time of his death

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1469

Thomas Malory

Thomas Malory, in a gaol somewhere in England, complies Morte d'Arthur an English account of the French tales king Arthur

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1500 - 1558

Elizabeth

Has poets such as sir wolle, Edmund spenser and willian shakespeare

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1500 - 1660

THE RENAISSANCE PERIOD

Is divided in three parts Jacobean, Elizabeth and Carollina in tihis time the biible has been translated tto the kiing james version

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1510

Erasmus

Erasmus and Thomas More take northern Renaissance in the direction of christian humanism

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1590

Edmund Spennser

English poet Edmund spenser celebrates the protestan Elizabeth I as the faerie Qeene

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1601

Willian Shakespeare

Shakespeare central character in hamlet expresses both the ideas of renaissance and the dillusion of a less confident age

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1605 - 1625

Jacobean

In this time the translation of the Bible has been made by the king James

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1625 - 1653

Carolina

In this time has poets such as including Thomas Carew, Richard Lovelace, and John Suckling

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1653 - 1660

Puritan

This time has poets such as Anne Bradstreet, Edward Taylor and John Dryden

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1660 - 1700

Restoration age

Has poets such ass willian Congreve and John Dixden

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1660 - 1785

NEOCLASICAL PERIOD

Is divided in two parts restoration age and 18 century

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1667

Annus Mirabilis

Poet who writes abouth the war agains Holland and the grea fire of London

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1667

Paradise Lost

Paradise lost is published, earning its author John Milton 10 E

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1700 - 1785

18 Century

Has poets such ass

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1700 - 1750

Age of Sensibility

Age of Johnson Edmund and Edward Gibbon

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1700 - 1750

Augustan

Has poets such ass Alexander Pope and Jonathan Swift

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1726

Jonathan Swif

Jonathan swift send his hero on a series of bitterly satrical travels in gullivers travels

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1755

Samuel johnson

Samuel johnson publishes his magisterial dictionary of English langague

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1785 - 1832

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD

Some people say that start with the French revolution, thiss era made works of coleridge Willian blackey Lord Bryant

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1792

Mary Wolllstone

English author Mary Wolllstone publishes a personalety feminnist worrk a vindication of the right of women

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1813

Pride and prejuice

Pride and prejuice based on a youthful work f 17 aledd fiirst impresion is he second of the austen novels o be published

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1831

Oliver Wonndell Holmes

Oliver Wonndell Holmes's poems the last is inspired by an agedd soinnvur of he Boston tea party

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1832 - 1901

THE VICTORIAN PERIOD

Is named for the name of the Queen Victoria who ascend to the throne, it was time of great social relligious inetelectuall issues has poets such as Robert, Christiina Rossetti and Walker Patter

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1843

Ebenzer Scrooge

Ebenzer Scrooge mends his way just in the time in charles Dikens a cristmas carol

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1847

Bram Stoker

Poet important who wrote the famus novel dracula

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1849

Time Machine

H.G. well published the time machine a history abouth the time traveler whose first stop in the jurney is the year 802701

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1894

Edward Estlin Cummings

Ameerricaan poeet wwhho wrote approximately 2,900 poems

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1900

Wonderfull Wizard

Frank Baum introduces children to Oz in his book the wonderfull wizard of Oz

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1901 - 1914

THE EDWARDIAN PERIOD

Is named for the king Edward VII in the outbreak of the world war 1, include novelist as Josep cunrad and Ford Madox

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1901

Tale of Petter

Beatriz Potter introduces in her own Expense the tale of Petter Rabbitt

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1908

Lucy Moud Montgomery

Lucy Moud Montgomery's first novel Ame of green gobles instant fame and fortune

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1910

Mr polly

H.G.wells publishes the history of Mr polly a novel abouth an scape from drab everyday existance

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1914 - 1936

THE GEORGIAN PERIOD

Is named for the king George 5 has poets such as Ralph Edgon Jhon Musefield and Ruper Brook

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1925

Dalloway

Virginia woolf Publlishes her novel Mrs Dalloway in which the actions is limited to a single day

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1928

Frank Harris

Irish author Frank Harris publishes the foutrth and final volume off my life

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1936

Gone with the wind

Author margaret Mitchel publlishes her one book Which becomees probably the best seellling novel of all time Gone witth the winnd

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1936 - 1950

THE MODERN PERIOD

Begins with the world war I some of the poets are Virginia Woolf and Aldous Huxley

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1940

Hernest Heming

Ernest Heming Way publishes the novel for whom the bell tollls set in the spanish ciivil war

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1945

Napoleon

In george Orwells fabble animal farm a rutthles pig napoleon contras the farm yard using the tecniquues of stalings

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1950 - 2000

THE POST MODERN PERIOD

Has poeets such as Michel Foucault, Roland Barthes, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and Jean-François Lyotard.

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1959

Jeanette Winterson

Important writer who wrote the famus novel Frankissstein

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1979

The Caged birds

US authhor Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographhical first novel i know why the caged birds sing

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1983

Narnia

Lewis gives the first gllimpset of Narrnia in the lion the witch and he wardrobe

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