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British Literature Time Periods

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Genre/Style Poetry (Epic and Elegiac Prose Riddles Metaphorical and alliterative Paraphrasing of Biblical texts

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Focus/Aspect German heroes Positive and negative aspects of life Religious messages Handed down orally from one generation to another Latin used in schools and churches

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Historical Context The invasion of Celtic England by Germanic tribes The culture and forming of borders was developed Religious evolution by Christian missionaries Ethelbert, the King of Kent, is the first English king to convert to Christianity The Battle of Hastings: The conquest of England, by the Norman-French William the Conqueror in 1066 ended Saxon rule.

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Literary pieces Beowulf (Epic) The Wanderer (Elegiac) Writings of Alfred the Great Caedmon’s Hymn Monk Venerable Bede’s The Ecclesiastical History of the English People Exeter Book (Riddles and religious poems)

The Middle Ages (Middle English) Period) 10-66-1500 Genre/Style Legends Ballads Songs Drama Elegy Devotional books Allegories Biblical translations

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Focus/Aspect Arthurian/Chivalry Secular and religious thems Appeal to popular audience Mystery and morality

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Historical Aspects/ Perspectives Founding of the universities of Oxford and Cambridge King John signed the Magna Carta English replaces Latin in school instruction around 1350 (except at Cambridge and Oxford) Hundred Years War The Black Death kills 1/3 of the population First English printing press in 1476 Columbus travels to America in 1492

Old English (Anglo Saxon) Period c. 450-1066 Literary pieces King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Malory’s Morte D’Arthur Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales Everyman

English Renaissance (Early Modern Period) 1500-1660 Genre/Style Poetry Drama Epic Non-fiction prose Translations Lyrical style Elegy Tragedy Comedy Pastoral Blank verse

English Renaissance (Early Modern Period) 1500-1660 Focus/Aspect Humanism stressed Theatre re-emerges Violence shown on stage, which eventually led to the closing of the theatre Some poems intended to be set to music Religious focus Focus on chastity and housewifery

English Renaissance (Early Modern Period) 1500-1660 Historical Aspects/ Perspectives Eras: The Tudors; the Elizabethan Age; Jacobean Age; Puritan Interregnum Henry VIII becomes king Increase in publishing ventures English Church breaks away from Roman Catholicism under Henry VIII More than 10,000 words addes Martin Luther posted his Ninety-Five Theses (1517)

English Renaissance (Early Modern Period) 1500-1660 Literary Pieces King James Bible Shakespeare’s Hamlet and Macbeth Sir Thomas More’s Utopia Poems of Mr. John Milton, Both English and Latin Edmund Spenser’s The Faerie Queene

Neoclassical Period (Age of Englightenment) 1660-1785 Genre/Style Drama Novels Poetry Prose Diaries Essays Letters Satire Wit Classic style Heroic couplet

Neoclassical Period (Age of Englightenment) 1660-1785 Focus/Aspect Aristrocracy Life in the court Focus on one’s instinct, feeling, and imagination Social needs outweigh individual needs Themes of restraint and order Focus on the study of grammar

Neoclassical Period (Age of Englightenment) 1660-1785 Historical Aspects/ Perspectives Eras: Restoration Age; Augustan Age; The Age of Sensibility Charles I is crowned Puritan ban on theatres was lifted Great Plague Great fire of London The flourishing of art and architecture England and Scotland became Great Britain in 1707 America declares independence from Britain on July 4, 1776

Neoclassical Period (Age of Englightenment) 1660-1785 Literary pieces John Milton’s Paradise Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys John Bunyan’s Pilgrim’s Progress Isaac Newton’s Principles of Mathematics Congreve’s The Way of the World Swift’s Gulliver’s Travels Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe Joseph Addison- prose and poetry

The Romantic Period 1785-1837 Genre/Style Poetry Novel Gothic novel: romance, the supernatural, and terror Prose Drama

The Romantic Period 1785-1837 Focus/Aspect Focus on emotions, adventure, and imagination Rejection of the emphasis on logic and reason of the Enlightenment Gain insight into the divine through nature Importance of personal experiences and individuality Escape from reality Art to be enjoyed by all

The Romantic Period 1785-1837 Historical Aspects/ Perspectives Victoria becomes Queen at 18 Britain goes to war with France Slave trade is abolished in Britain in 1807 Reform of Britain’s social security by Poor Law of 1834 Revolt against aristocracy

The Romantic Period 1785-1837 Literary Piece Mary Shelley (Frankenstein) Poetry of Burns, Blake, Coleridge, Lord Byron, Shelley, and Keats Novels by Jane Austin, Sir Walter Scott, and Ann Radcliffe Woodsworth’s lyrical ballad