THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE THE ANGLO SAXON

THE ANGLO SAXON PERIOD 1066 v Invasion of Romans v Danish vikings invasion v

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD v 1066 -15 th century v Norman invasion v Battel of

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE v 15 th and 16 th century v The Reformation v Humanism

v Thomas More - Utopia v Edmund Spencer -The Faerie Queen v Francis Bacon---the

THE PERIOD OF REVOLUTION v 17 th century v Clash between King and Parliament

THE PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT v 18 th century v The age of reason v

v Pope v Swift - Gulliver’s Travel v Defoe – Robinson Crusoe v William

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD v 18 th and 19 th century v Wordsworth v French

REALISTIC PERIOD v Mid/late 19 th century v Dickens v Social background v Brontë

THE MODERN PERIOD v 20 th century v James Joyce v Marx’s socialism v

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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH LITERATURE

THE ANGLO SAXON PERIOD 1066 v Invasion of Romans v Danish vikings invasion v Epic v Alliteration v Beowulf https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=Wx. PAp. TGWwas

THE MEDIEVAL PERIOD v 1066 -15 th century v Norman invasion v Battel of Hastings v Feudalism v The fields of Athenry v By a lonely prison wall I heard a young girl calling "Michael they have taken you away For you stole Treveleyn's corn So the young might see the morn Now a prison ship lies waiting in the bay" v Ballad Low, lie the Fields of Athenry v Allegory Our love was on the wing v Canterbury Tales It's so lonely 'round the Fields of Athenry Where once we watched the small free birds fly We dreams and songs to sing

ENGLISH RENAISSANCE v 15 th and 16 th century v The Reformation v Humanism

v Thomas More - Utopia v Edmund Spencer -The Faerie Queen v Francis Bacon---the first English essayist v Drama- Christopher Marlowe, Shakespeare and Ben Jonson v Ben Jonson---his praise of Shakespeare; “Volpone” Soul of the Age The applause! delight! the wonder of our stage!

THE PERIOD OF REVOLUTION v 17 th century v Clash between King and Parliament v Metaphyssical poets v John Milton- Paradise Lost v Heroic couplet v Metaphysical poetry

THE PERIOD OF ENLIGHTENMENT v 18 th century v The age of reason v The rise of the modern novel v Classicism v Sentimentalism

v Pope v Swift - Gulliver’s Travel v Defoe – Robinson Crusoe v William Blake v Robert Burns

THE ROMANTIC PERIOD v 18 th and 19 th century v Wordsworth v French Revolution v Coleridge v English Industrial v Byron Revolution v Shelly v http: //www. history. com/topics/ind ustrial-revolution v Keats

REALISTIC PERIOD v Mid/late 19 th century v Dickens v Social background v Brontë v Dramatic monologue v Hardy v Naturalism v Tennyson v Neo-romanticism v https: //www. youtube. com/watch? v=DNT-w. OLI 4 H 4

THE MODERN PERIOD v 20 th century v James Joyce v Marx’s socialism v Virginia Wolf v Darwin’s theory of v Samuel Beckett evolution v Realistic novels v Consciousness v Modernism in drama v Modernism in poetry v W. B. Yeats

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