This document provides an overview of the key periods in English literature, including the Old English period, Middle Ages, Renaissance, Elizabethan era, 17th century, Restoration period, 18th century, Romantic period, Victorian era, and Modern period. It summarizes some of the defining features of each period as well as influential authors such as Geoffrey Chaucer, William Shakespeare, John Milton, and William Wordsworth. The document is intended to help readers understand the development of English literature across different historical ages.
It is best to know the branches of literature since it evolves and involves our everyday life that connects individuals with larger truths and ideas in a society as it creates a way for people to record their thoughts and experiences that is accessible to others, through fictionalized accounts of the experience.
Humanities: Literature
Latin littera; letter the art of written works
Literary translated:
“acquaintance with letters”
[“as in the “arts and letters”]
Literature in its widest sense:
Embraces all compositions in writing or print which preserve the
*results of observation,
*thought, or
*fancy;
but those upon the positive sciences are usually excluded.
II.LITERARY GENRE:
literary technique
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It is best to know the branches of literature since it evolves and involves our everyday life that connects individuals with larger truths and ideas in a society as it creates a way for people to record their thoughts and experiences that is accessible to others, through fictionalized accounts of the experience.
Humanities: Literature
Latin littera; letter the art of written works
Literary translated:
“acquaintance with letters”
[“as in the “arts and letters”]
Literature in its widest sense:
Embraces all compositions in writing or print which preserve the
*results of observation,
*thought, or
*fancy;
but those upon the positive sciences are usually excluded.
II.LITERARY GENRE:
literary technique
Tone
Content
Length
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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3. The objectives of this chapter are to enable you
to:
Create an understanding among students about
various ages of English literature
Develop comprehension about the salient
features of different ages of literature
Acquire information about representative authors
of all the ages
Get knowledge about representative works of
literature
4. Salient Features of Old Age
War Themes
Oral Literature
Tribal legends
Verse form
5. The best piece and representative work of
literature produced in this age is Beowulf.
Beowulf is the only surviving Anglo-Saxon or
Germanic epic poem, in the oral form of
recitation, incorporating heroic stories.
This long poem was composed for recitation,
perhaps in the 6thC.
The author of this poem is unknown.
The length of the epic is 3,000-line, in a
narrative form and is divided into two parts of
equal length.
6. ROMANCES
Romance in English literature originally came
from languages French and Latin, later came
to be known as something written in French.
The basic theme of romance of middle ages is
actions and adventures of knights in the
honour of the Queen. Medieval romance can
be defined as a story of adventure—fictitious
in nature and having supernatural elements
depicted in verse or prose form.
7. Geoffrey Chaucer, born in 1340 at London,
England, became a public servant to Countess
Elizabeth of Ulster in 1357 and continued
working with the British court throughout his
lifetime.
He is known as the father of English
literature.
The Canterbury Tales became his best known
and most acclaimed work in the history and
field of literature.
8. The word Renaissance means the revival and
rebirth. The age is known as the transition
phase where the effects of middle ages were
shaken off. It started from Italy in the 14th C.
And spread in the north region. In England
this revival in art and literature reached in
16th C.
9. The Renaissance thinkers and scholars focused
on the following elements.
Classical Literature
Classical Art
Greek Ideals
Rejection of Medieval modes of thinking and
Romances.
Political Changes took place
Humanism became the fashion of the day.
Human became more important than Divine
elements.
Discovery and occupation of the new lands.
Building large Ships.
10. Christopher Marlowe
Elizabethan poet and Shakespeare’s most
important predecessor in English drama, who
is noted especially for his establishment of
dramatic blank verse.
Doctor Faustus
Doctor Faustus tells the story of Marlowe’s
best known character Dr. Faustus, who
decides to sell his soul to the devil Lucifer, in
exchange for power and knowledge, the
typical characteristics of Renaissance.
11. considered by many to be the greatest dramatist
of all time
Shakespeare occupies a unique position in
world of literature.
Other poets, such as Homer and Dante, and
novelists, such as Leo Tolstoy and Charles
Dickens, have transcended national barriers; but
no writer’s living reputation can compare to that
of Shakespeare, whose plays, written in the late
16th and early 17th centuries for a small
repertory theatre, are now performed and read
more often and in more countries than ever
before.
12. COMEDIES
All's Well That Ends Well
As You Like It
Comedy of Errors
Love's Labour's Lost
Measure for Measure
Merchant of Venice
Merry Wives of Windsor
Midsummer Night's Dream
Much Ado about Nothing
Taming of the Shrew
Tempest
Twelfth Night
Two Gentlemen of Verona
Winter's Tale
13. Henry IV, Part I
Henry IV, Part II
Henry V
Henry VI, Part I
Henry VI, Part II
Henry VI, Part III
Henry VIII
King John
Pericles
Richard II
Richard III
14. Antony and Cleopatra
Coriolanus
Cymbeline
Julius Caesar
Hamlet
King Lear
Macbeth
Othello
Romeo and Juliet
Timon of Athens
Titus Andronicus
Troilus and Cressida
15. Salient Features of The Age of Milton Political
Unrest.
Fight between Parliament and Church Revolution
Continuation of the Renaissance ideals
His literary works are divided into three groups.
First, shorter poems at Horton.
Second Group- Prose Work Second, prose work
inspired by his Puritanism and politics
Third:Paradise Lost, a great epic deals with the
fall of Man and disobedience of God.
16. Salient Features of Metaphysical poetry.
Highly Philosophical
Exaggeration
Conceits.
Playing with words and their meanings
Far-fetched similes and metaphor.
17. Salient Features of the age
Classical model
Reasons
Intellectual thoughts
Urban Models
Satirical tone
Philosophical ideas
Political thoughts and matters
Sublime and metaphorical language
Typical classical verse form
Classical diction
18. Picaresque Novel
In English novel started with the picaresque
form that focuses on the short coming of the
society when the protagonist wanders from
place to place.
Example
The Pilgrim’s Progress by John Banyan
Banyan in this first English novel tells the
story of the pilgrim named Christian.
19. Salient Features of Romantic Age
Focus on emotions, passion and feelings
Depiction of rural life
Intuition and imagination imitating primitive,
medieval and natural tendencies
Belief in individualism
Subjectivism
Common use of language for poetic diction
William Wordsworth
Wordsworth (1770-1850) is the mind and soul
behind revolutionary movement of Romanticism.
20. Salient Features of the Age
Age of Development and Industrialization
Material expansion
Age of doubt and hopelessness
Knowledge accepted as having scientific nature and
evolution
Philosophical understanding of changing times.
Mathew Arnold
Arnold is a great poet of the Victorian age. Through his
poetry he tries to achieve literary milestones. He revolts
against the sentimentality of Romantics. His poetry reflects
doubts in religion and science
21. Salient Features of the Modern Age
World War 1 and WW 2 and Echoes of Change
Cosmopolitan approach to literature
Realism
Materialism
Application of literary critical principles
Experimentation in literary forms and techniques
with emergence of Symbolism, Stream of
Consciousness, Psychological development of
characters, imagism, Colonialism, Structuralism
and Formalism, Kinds of Feminism etc.