THE CLASSICAL PERIOD (one thousand two hundred BCE - four hundred fifty-five CE)
One. Homeric or Heroic Period (one thousand two hundred BCE - eight hundred BCE)
Two. Classical Greek Period (eight hundred BCE - two hundred BCE)
Significance of the Classical Period:
Patristic Period (around seventy CE - four hundred fifty-five CE)
The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (four hundred twenty-eight to one thousand one hundred sixty-six)
Literary and Cultural Development
Major Scholars and Writers
Alfred the Great and Literary Patronage
The Middle English Period (around one thousand sixty-six to one thousand four hundred fifty)
Literary Influences and Intellectual Climate
Anglo-Norman Period (around one thousand one hundred to around one thousand three hundred fifty)
Important Works of the Anglo-Norman Period
Late / "High" Medieval Period (around one thousand two hundred to one thousand four hundred eighty-five)
The Renaissance (around one thousand four hundred eighty-five to one thousand six hundred sixty)
Early Tudor Period (Four thousand four hundred eighty-five to Five thousand five hundred fifty-eight)
Poetry Innovations: Italy ·Wyatt and Surrey - Introduced sonnet and blank verse.
Fifteen hundred fifty-seven English Renaissance Periods:
Elizabethan Period (Five thousand five hundred fifty-eight to Six thousand three hundred three)
Important Facts - Elizabethan Age
Printing and the Renaissance
Jacobean Period, sixteen zero three to sixteen twenty-five.
The Metaphysical Poets Features of Metaphysical Poetry
Caroline Age (one thousand six hundred twenty-five to one thousand six hundred forty-nine)
Features of Cavalier Poetry
Commonwealth Period / Puritan Interregnum (one thousand six hundred forty-nine to one thousand six hundred sixty)
Milton's political pamphlets
The Enlightenment / Neoclassical Period (approximately one thousand six hundred sixty to one thousand seven hundred ninety)
The Restoration (circa sixteen sixty to seventeen hundred)
The Augustan Age (circa seventeen hundred to forty-five)
The Age of Sensibility / Age of Johnson (circa forty-five to seventy)
Romantic Period (circa seventy to thirty)
The Victorian Era (circa thirty-two to nineteen o one)
Historical and Social Background
Aestheticism and Decadence
Features of Victorian Fiction
Phases of the Victorian Period
Mid-Victorian Period, eighteen forty-eight to eighteen seventy
Major Literary Characteristics
Major Novelists, Golden Age of the Novel
The Modern Period, approximately nineteen fourteen to nineteen forty-five
The Postmodern Period, approximately nineteen forty-five onward
Key Features of Literature:
The New Apocalyptic Movement
Philosophical/Worldview Characteristics:
Historical & Cultural Influences:
Notable Literary Techniques/Terms Coined:
Notable Postmodern Authors:
Disaster/Catastrophe/Apocalyptic Fiction
The Theatre of the Absurd