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Key Periods in English Literature

This document outlines the major periods of English literature from Old English to the 20th century. It discusses the defining works and authors of each period, including Beowulf for Old English, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for Middle English, William Shakespeare for the Renaissance, John Milton and Alexander Pope for the Enlightenment, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley for Romanticism, and Charles Dickens and the Brontë sisters for Realism. It also notes sub-periods within Romanticism and mentions modernist and post-modernist authors of the 20th century like James Joyce and John Fowles.

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Key Periods in English Literature

This document outlines the major periods of English literature from Old English to the 20th century. It discusses the defining works and authors of each period, including Beowulf for Old English, Geoffrey Chaucer's Canterbury Tales for Middle English, William Shakespeare for the Renaissance, John Milton and Alexander Pope for the Enlightenment, Lord Byron and Percy Bysshe Shelley for Romanticism, and Charles Dickens and the Brontë sisters for Realism. It also notes sub-periods within Romanticism and mentions modernist and post-modernist authors of the 20th century like James Joyce and John Fowles.

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PERIODS IN ENGLISH LITERATURE 1. Old English literature: Beowulf 2.

Middle English literature - the age of Chaucer Canterbury Tales 3. The 15th century - medieval drama 4. Renaissance (16th century) - the age of Shakespeare - C. Marlowe - Thomas Morus - Edmund Spenser, Th. Kidd - Elizabethan drama: John Milton 5. The Enlightenment a) early Enlightenment: Alexander Pope (poet), D. Defoe, J. Swift b) the Enlightenment proper: S. Richardson, H. Fielding, Th. Smollett c) Sentimentalism: Oliver Goldsmith, L. Sterne 6. The Romantic Period - W. Scott, Byron, Shelly, Wordsworth, Coleridge, J. Keats 2 SUB-PERIODS a) Wordsworth, Coleridge, R. Southey b) J. Keats, W. Scott, Byron 7. Realism - Dickens, Thackeray, Emily and Charlotte Bronte, G. Eliott 8. 20th century literature a) Edwardian realists: Galsworthy, A. Bennett b) Modernism: Joyce, Woolf, D. H. Lawrence c) Post-Modernism: J. Fowles

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