Period 7 -11 (600-1066) 12th-15th (1066-1485)

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Name OLD ENGLISH (A-S) MIDDLE ENGLISH

Authors/Works Beowulf (700-750) The Battle of Maldon (991) Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales (end 14th c.) Gower Langland Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Romance) William Caxton (1st press Westminster)

Features Alliterative Verse Kenning Heroic and Epic Poetry Early Middle English Literature (1066-1350):
The Norman Conquest Rhyme, Rhythm, Stanzas Differences: A-S & M-E

Alliterative Revival (1350-1500):

Secular Literature: Romance, Ballad, Fabliau Heroic couplet (Chaucer) Rhyme Royal (Chaucer) Narrative Doctrine (dulce et utile, delectando docere)

15th-17th (1485-1660)

RENAISSANCE

Shakespeare: The Sonnets Shakespeare: A Lovers Complaint C. Marlowe: Doctor Faustus C. Marlowe: Edward II Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophil and Stella John Donne: Songs and Sonnets John Donne: Divine Poems Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

End 17th (1660-1700)

RESTORATION

John Milton: Paradise Lost (1604)

18th

18TH

18th-19th (1785-1830)

ROMANTIC POETRY

ROMANTIC PROSE

Daniel Defoe: Robinson Crusoe (1719) Jonathan Swift: Gullivers Travels (1726) S. Richardson: Pamela (1740) 1st thriller Henry Fielding: Shamela (1740) Tom Jones Laurence Sterne: Tristam Shandy Alexander Pope: Essay on Criticism Samuel Johnson: Dictionary William Blake: Songs of Innocence and Experience (end 18th) William Wordsworth: Lyrical Ballads (1798) Coleridge: Biographia Literaria Lord Byron: Don Juan (early 19th) John Keats: Odes (19th) Perry B. Shelley: A Defence of Poetry (19th) Mary W: Vindication of the Rights of Women Emily Bront: Wuthering Heights (1847) Walter Scott: Waverley Novels Jane Austen: Pride and Prejudice (1813) The London Gazette Charles Dickens: Bleak House

Medieval Drama (14th): - From Latin to English - From religious topics to secular ones - From the church to the squares Mystery-Miracle: Corpus Christi, Guilds, Longest Day The Pageants: Carts drown by horses. No barrier. Chrono. Morality plays: popular in the Renaissance Tudor Court: Artificial and refined Elizabethan-Jacobean Theatre: -The Interlude -The University Wits (influenced on comedy) -The Inns (of Court) (corrales de comedia) -The Blackfriars: Public Playhouses Marlowe: Mighty Line. Blank Verse. Tragedy in Elizabethan time The Age of the Sonnet (1530-1650): Wyatt -Sonnet Sequence -Wyatt: Final Couplet -Earl of Surrey: The Rhyme Pattern Metaphysical Poetry (end 16th c.): Conceits Secular Poetry: Courtiers and Cavaliers: Carpe Diem 1642: Theatres banned by Puritans 1660: Theatres reopened with 2 changes The Age of Comedy Diaries, Journalism and Satire The Age of Satire The Age of Sensibility Emergence of the 1st newspaper The Rise of the Novel: -Middle Class
-Circulating libraries

The Age of Poetry The term Romantic Subjectivism, medievalism and folklore WW: Nature, Insight, Blank Verse, Tintern Abbey Coleridge: Fancy, 2 Imagination Byron, Keats and Shelley: 2nd Generation The Gothic Novel (18th-19th): Emily Bront: -The indestructibility of the spirit -The indissoluble nature of earthly love The Historical Novel: W. Scott The Novel of Manners (18th-19th): Jane Austen Magazines vs. The Review Novels: Aristocracy, criminals, mystery, manners

19th (1830-1901)

VICTORIAN

The Pickwick Papers

Alliterative Verse: Repetition of sounds. Each line was made up of two half-lines, separated by a caesura, joined by alliteration. Each half-line consisted of two stressed syllables and some unstressed syllables. Heroic couplet: two lines of normally 10 syllables or 5 feet which rhyme. Rhyme Royal: A stanza of seven 5-stress lines, rhyming ababbcc, usually in iambic pentameter (stressed-unstressed). The Interlude: 15th c. Its a brief dramatic work, about 1,000 lines, allegorical, from Tudor period, performed indoors. Final Couplet: The last two lines of a sonnet that rhyme. Soliloquy: An act of speaking ones thoughts alone or regardless of hearers. Fancy: This is a minor faculty, associated with remembrance, fantasy.