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- 1Homeric or Heroic Period(1200-800 B.C.E.)
-Greek legends were passed along orally:
Homer's "The Iliad" & "The Odyssey"
-Chaotic period of warrior- princes, wandering sea-traders, and fierce pirates
- Contained in the Classical Period (1200 B.C.E.-455 C.E.) - 2The Classical Greek Period(800-200 BCE)
-Greek writers, playwrights, philosophers: Aesop, Plato, Socrates, Aristotle, Euripides, & Socrates
- The 5th century (Golden Age of Greece)
Era of the polis and early democracy
-Finest art, poetry, drama, architecture and philosophy
Contained in the Classical period - 3The Patristic Period(70 C.E.-455 C.E)
Early Christian writers: St. Augustine, Tertullian, St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, &St. Jerome
- Period where Jerome first compiled the Bible. Christianity spread across Europe
Barbarians attacked Rome in 410 CE and the city finally fell in 455 CE
Contained in the Classical period - 4The Classical Roman Period(200 B.C.E.- 455 C.E)
-Greece's culture gave way to Roman power when Rome conquered Greece in 146 CE
-Playwrights of the time include: Plautus & Terence
- Roman writers include Ovid, Horace, and Virgil
- Philosophers: Marcus Aurelius, Lucretius
-Rhetoricians: Cicero & Quintilian
Included in Classical Period - 5The Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period)428-1066 CE
-The so-called "Dark Ages (455 CE-799 CE)
- Old English was a mixture of native Britanic language and tribal Germanic
-Alliteration (Kennings)
- Heroic poetry (Beowulf)
- Lyric poetry (Wanderer, Seafarer)
-Christian Poetry (Dream of the Rood)
- Popular Poetry (Caedmon, Cynewulf) - 6The Middle English Period1066-1450 CE
-Anglo-Norman period
-French chivalric romances" works by Chretien de Troyes
- French fables: works by Marie de France
Late or "High" Medieval Period
Chaucer, William Langland, Gawain, Dante, Boccaccio, Petrarch - 7The Elizabethan Period(1558-1603)
-Queen Elizabeth saved England from Spanish Invasion
Reign marked by the early works of Shakespeare, Marlowe, and Sidney - 8E(1485-1558)
-War of Roses ended in England with Henry Tudor (the 7th) claiming the throne
-Martin Luther's split with Rome marks the emergence of Protestantism followed by Henry VIII
Edmund Spenser - 9Jacobean Period(1603-1625)
-Shakespeare's later works
-Ben Jonson
- John Donne - 10Caroline Age(1625-1649)
John Milton and George Herbert - 11Commonwealth Period/Puritan Interregnum(1649-1660)
Under Cromwell's Puritan dictatorship, John Milton continued to write.
Andrew Marvell and Sir Thomas Browne - 12Restoration Period(1660-1700)
Period marks the British king's restoration to the throne often a ling period of Puritan domination in England.
Symptoms include the dominance of French & Classical influences on poetry & drama
Writers include: John Dryden, John Locke, Sir William Temple, Jean Racine and Moliere - 13The Augustan Age(1700-1750)
Period marked by the imitation of Virgil & Horace's literature in English letters
Principal writers: Addison, Steele, Swift, and Pope
Abroad: Voltaire - 14The Age of Johnson(1750-1790)
-Period marks the upcoming Romanticism though period largely Neoclassical
Writers: Dr. Samuel Johnson, Boswell, Gibbon, who represent the Neoclassical tendencies, while writers like Robert Burns, Thomas Gray, Cowper, and Crabbe show movement away from the classical ideal
In America this period is called Colonial period: Ben Franklin, Thomas Jeff & Paine - 15The Romantic Period(1790-1830 CE)
Romantic poets wrote about nature, imagination, and individuality in England. Writers include: Coleridge, Blake, Keats, Shelly, in Britain, and Johann von Goeth in Germany
-Jane Austen
In America the transcendental period Emerson and Thoreau - 16Gothic Writings1790-1890
- Gothic writings overlap with the Romantic & Victorian periods, writers of Gothic novels (the precursor to horror novels) include Radcliffe, "Monk" Lewis, and Victorians like Bran Stoker in Britain.
In America: Poe, and Hawthorne - 17The Victorian Period & the 19th Century(1832-1901)
Writings from the period of Queen Victoria. British writers include: Elizabeth Browning, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Matthew Arnold, Robert Browning, Charles Darwin, Bronte Sisters. - 18End of the Victorian PeriodMarked by the intellectual movements of Aestheticism and Decadence in the writings of Walter Pater, Oscar Wilde.
America: Whitman and Dickinson - 19The Modern Period(1914-1945)
Britain: W.B. Yeats, Seamus Heaney, Dylan Thomas, W.H. Auden, Virginia Woolf
America: Robert Frost, Flan O'Connor
Lost Generation writers: Hemingway, Stein, Fitzgerald, Faulkner - 20Harlem Renaissance(1914-45)
Marks the rise of black writers
Baldwin & Ellison
Realism is the dominant fashion, but the disillusionment with world wars lead to new experimentation. - 21The Postmodern Period(1945-onward)
T.S. Eliot, Morrison, Shaw, Beckett, Fowler
Multiculturalism (canonization of non Caucasian writers such as Langston Hughes
Magical Realists: Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salmon Rushdie with surrealistic writing embroiled in the conventions of realism.
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