The history of English Literature

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The history of English Literature

The Anglo Saxon Period 1066 Invasion of Romans Danish vikings invasion Epic Alliteration Beowulf https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxPApTGWwas

The Medieval Period 1066-15th century Norman invasion Battel of Hastings Feudalism Ballad Allegory Canterbury Tales The fields of Athenry By a lonely prison wall I heard a young girl calling "Michael they have taken you away For you stole Treveleyn's corn So the young might see the morn Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay" Low, lie the Fields of Athenry Where once we watched the small free birds fly Our love was on the wing We dreams and songs to sing It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry

English Renaissance 15th and 16th century The Reformation Humanism

Thomas More - Utopia Edmund Spencer -The Faerie Queen Francis Bacon---the first English essayist Drama- Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson Ben Jonson---his praise of Shakespeare; “Volpone” Soul of the Age The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage!

The Period of Revolution 17th century Clash between King and Parliament Metaphyssical poets John Milton- Paradise Lost Heroic couplet Metaphysical poetry

The Period of Enlightenment 18th century The age of reason The rise of the modern novel Classicism Sentimentalism

Pope Swift - Gulliver’s Travel Defoe – Robinson Crusoe William Blake Robert Burns

The RoMantic Period 18th and 19th century French Revolution English Industrial Revolution http://www.history.com/topics/industrial-revolution Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelly Keats

Realistic Period Mid/late 19th century Social background Dramatic monologue Naturalism Neo-romanticism Dickens Brontë Hardy Tennyson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT-wOLI4H4

The Modern Period 20th century Marx’s socialism Darwin’s theory of evolution Realistic novels Consciousness Modernism in drama Modernism in poetry James Joyce Virginia Wolf Samuel Beckett W.B.Yeats

The present