1. Pre-Test What is English literature?

2. She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron She walks in Beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light Which Heaven to gaudy day denies. One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the nameless grace Which waves in every raven tress, Or softly lightens o’er her face; Where thoughts serenely sweet express, How pure, how dear their dwelling-place. And on that cheek, and o’er that brow, So soft, so calm, yet eloquent, The smiles that win, the tints that glow, But tell of days in goodness spent, A mind at peace with all below, A heart whose love is innocent!

3. CE Explore the relationships among individual works, authors, and literary movements in English and American literature and consider the historical, cultural, and societal contexts in which works were produced.

4. Literary Periods Old English(Anglo-Saxon) Middle English
The Renaissance
-Elizabethan Age
-Jacobean Age
Neoclassical Period
Romanticism
Victorian Period

5. Old English Also known as Anglo-Saxon
Invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes
Oral Tradition
Beowulf

6. Middle English The Medieval Period Norman Invasion
The Canterbury Tales

7. The Renaissance French for “rebirth” Cultural Movement
Advancements in Science
Artistic Aspects
*Leonardo da Vinci
*Michelangelo
William Shakespeare, Christopher Marlowe

8. Elizabethan Age Reign of Elizabeth I
Medieval tradition blended with Renaissance optimism
Lyric poetry, prose, and drama
William Shakespeare
Christopher Marlowe
Ben Jonson

9. Jacobean Age James I Sophisticated
Conscious of social abuse and rivalry
King James Translation of the Bible
Shakespeare
Johnson
John Donne

10. Neoclassical Period Philosophy Reason Skepticism Wit Refinement
Literary Criticism
Restoration
-John Milton-Paradise Lost, Paradise Regained
Age of Sensibility- Enlightenment
-instinct and feeling
-Samuel Johnson

11. Romanticism Personal Nature Strong Use of Feeling Symbolism
Nature and the Supernatural
Innovative-literature should be spontaneous, imaginative, personal and free
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
William Wordsworth
Jane Austen
Lord Byron
Gothic Literature

12. Victorian Period Queen Victoria Issues and Problems of the Day
Social, economic, intellectual, and religious issues
Industrial Revolution
Feminist Movement
Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution
Alfred Lord Tenyson
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Charles Dickens
Thomas Hardy