Pre-Test What is English literature?

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!

CE 3.3.1 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.

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

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

Middle English The Medieval Period Norman Invasion The Canterbury Tales

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

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

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

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

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

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