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1 The history of English Literature

2 The Anglo Saxon Period 1066 Invasion of Romans Danish vikings invasion
Epic Alliteration Beowulf

3 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

4 English Renaissance 15th and 16th century The Reformation Humanism

5 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!

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

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

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

9 The RoMantic Period 18th and 19th century French Revolution
English Industrial Revolution Wordsworth Coleridge Byron Shelly Keats

10 Realistic Period Mid/late 19th century Social background
Dramatic monologue Naturalism Neo-romanticism Dickens Brontë Hardy Tennyson

11 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

12 The present

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