Literary elements, literary development, beowulf and other folk materials

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English literature is the
study of literature
written in the English
language. The writers do
not necessarily have to
be from England but can
be from all over the
world.
English literature dates
back more than five
centuries. It represents
writers not only from
different parts of the
world and time periods,
but it covers every major
genre and style of
writing as well.

3. VICTORIAN PERIOD
And The 19th Century (c. 1832-1901)
THE CLASSICAL PERIOD
(1200 BCE -455 CE)
THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(455 CE-1485 CE)
The Enlightenment (Neoclassical)
Period(c. 1660-1790)
ROMANTIC PERIOD
(c. 1790-1830)
MODERN PERIOD (c. 1914-1945?)
POSTMODERN PERIOD
(c. 1945? onward)
THE RENAISSANCE AND REFORMATION
(c. 1485-1660 CE)
Periods of the English Literature
Periods in literature are named for rulers, historical events, intellectual or political or religious movements, or artistic styles.
Most literary periods therefore have multiple names. What's worse, some of these names are debated.

4. THE CLASSICAL
PERIOD
(1200 BCE -455
CE)
I. HOMERIC
or HEROIC
PERIOD
(1200-800
BCE)
II. CLASSICAL
GREEK
PERIOD(800-
200 BCE)
III. CLASSICAL
ROMAN
PERIOD(200
BCE-455 CE)
IV. PATRISTIC
PERIOD(c. 70
CE-455 CE)

5. THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD
(455 CE-1485 CE)

6. Old English Literature
500 -1100

7. Beowulf is an epic poem of Old
English literature. It consists of
3182 lines. The author is
unknown

9. Beowulf fights with
three monsters.
First of them is
Grendel. Beowulf
tears Grendel‘s arm
from his body at the
shoulder and
Grendel runs to his
home in the
marshes and slowly
dies.
1st battle. Grendel

10. Beowulf kills
Grendel with his
bare hands and
Grendel's mother
with a sword of a
giant that he found in
her lair.
2nd battle
Grendel’s mother

11. After fifty years he become a
king to his country. And goes
to fight with a dragon

12. Beowulf returns home and
eventually becomes king of his
own people. One day, fifty years
after, he lighted with dragon,
wounded and died
3rd battle
Dragon

13. Time Span, Terms, Movements, Examples
600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Beowulf
1200-1500 Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer
1500-1660 The English Renaissance
1500-1558 Tudor Period Humanist Era Thomas More, John Skelton
1558-1603 Elizabethan Period High Renaissance Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
1603-1625 Jacobean Period Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles:
Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets
Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert,
Emilia Lanyer
1625-1649 Caroline Period John Ford, John Milton
1649-1660 The Commonwealth & The
Protectorate
Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style J.Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes
1660-1700 The Restoration John Dryden
1700-1800 The Eighteenth Century The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period;
The Augustan Age
Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785-1830 Romanticism The Age of Revolution William Wordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, the Brontës
1830-1901 Victorian Period Early, Middle and Late Victorian Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord
Tennyson
1901-1960 Modern Period The Edwardian Era (1901-1910);
The Georgian Era (1910-1914)
G.M. Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence,
T.S. Eliot
1960- Postmodern and
Contemporary Period
Ted Hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowles, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt