History of English Literature throughout the ages.

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“Literature in any country, in any period, is  the reflection of the life, lived by the people of that country in that exceptional period.”

English literature is one of the richest kinds of literature in the world. Being the literature of a great nation that, yet occupies a small island off the west coast of Europe, has made its blemish in the world on account of her spirit of contingency, persistence, and courage. It emulates these peculiarities of great people. It has liveliness, diversity, rich variety, and endurance. As literature is the mirror of society, the various changes that have come about in English society, from the earliest to the modern time, have left their deboss on English literature. Therefore to apprize properly the various phases of English literature, knowledge of English Social and Political History is all-important.

Like others learning English literature also requires some basic knowledge of what is what. and who is who?

For instance, we cannot form a just evaluation of Chaucer or his life without taking into account the characteristics and behavior of the period in which he was living, or of Shakespeare without taking proper notice of the great incidents which were taking place during the reign of Elizabeth. The same is the case with other great figures and critical motions or maneuver’s in English literature. When we study the history of English literature from the leadoff to modern times, we get to know that it has passed through certain univocal periods or stages, each having marked characteristics. These periods and ages in English literature may be named after the central literary figures or the important rulers of England. Thus we have the Ages of Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Dryden, Pope, and Johnson. Wordsworth, Tennyson, Hardy; and, on the other hand, the Elizabethan Age, the Jacobean period, the age of Queen Anne, The Victorian Age, and the Georgian period. Some of these are named after some literary gesticulations’ like the Classical Age, and The Romantic Age, and some represent the historical eras like The Medieval Period, Anglo-Saxon period, and Anglo-Norman Period, and these literary phases are also named by some literary historians after hundred folds like The seventeenth-century  English literature, Eighteenth-Century English Literature, Nineteenth-Century English Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, and last but not the least twenty-first Century Literature.

These Ages and Periods overhang each other but they do not to be followed rigorously and not imposed on us somehow it’s essential to keep them in mind to follow the magnification of  English Literature during the various periods of its development.

Let’s have a look at the works which is the crux of periods and ages and have a critical survey of the background and development of English Literature from the earliest times up to the present age which we called the postmodern age.

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This Blog includes

1. Periods of English Literature

   • Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): 450–1066

   • Middle English Period: 1066-1500

   • Renaissance: 1500-1600

   • Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785

   • Romantic Period: 1785-1832

   • Victorian Age: 1832-1901

   • Edwardian Period: 1901-1914

   • Georgian Period: 1910-1936

   • Modern Period: Early 20th century

   • Postmodern Period: Mid-20th century

2. History of English Literature

3.                       The Anglo-Saxon or Old- English period (670-1100)

4.                      Middle -English or Anglo-Norman period (1100-1500)

5.                      The Renaissance  Period (1500- 1600)

6.                      The Puritan Age (1600-1660)

7.                      The Restoration Period ( 1600-1700)

8.                      18th Century Literature

9.                      Neoclassical age (1600-1785)

10.                      The Age of Pope ( 1700-1744)

11.                      The Age of Johnson (1744- 1784)

12.                      18th century Novel

13.                       18th century Drama

14.                       The Romantic Age ( 1785-1832)

15.                       Poets of the Romantic Age

16.                       Prose writers of the Romantic Age

17.                       Novelists of the Romantic Age

18.                       The Victorian Age (1832-1900)

19.                       Poets of the Early Victorian period

20.                      Novelists of the Early Victorian period

21.                      Prose writers of the early Victorian Period

22.                     Poets of the later Victorian period

23.                     Novelists of the later Victorian Period

24.                     Prose-writers of the later Victorian period

25.                     Modern Literature(1900-1961)

26.                     Modern Poetry

27.                     Modern Poets

28.                     Modern Drama

29.                     Modern Dramatists

30.                     Modern Novel

31.                    Modern Novelists

32.                    The Contemporary period (1939-Today)

33.                    Post-Colonial Literature

34.                    Pakistani Literature in English

35.                    The 20th Century Literature

36.                    Post-Modern Literature (1945-Present)

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Ages In English Literature:

• Old English period  (5th to 14th) Century

• Medieval English literature   (14th to 15th) Century

• The Elizabethan age is renowned as a golden age of English literature. (16th century  to early 17th) century.

• Restoration age (17th to 18th ) century.

• The (18th )century English literature.

• The Romantic period (19th) century.

• 20th Century Literature

History Of English Literature

The most important 8 periods of English Literature?

1. Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): 450–1066
2. Middle English Period: 1066-1500
3. Renaissance: 1500-1600
4. Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785
5. Romantic Period: 1785-1832
6. Victorian Age: 1832-1901
7. Edwardian Period: 1901-1914
8. Georgian Period: 1910-1936
9. Modern Period: Early 20th century
10. Postmodern Period: Mid-20th century

1: The Classical Period                                                                           (1200 BCE-455 BCE)

Homeric or Heroic Period (1200-800 BCE) Classical Greek Period (800-200 BCE) Classical Roman Period (200 BCE-455 BCE) Patristic Period (c.70 CE-455 CE)

2: The Medieval Period                                                                                                (455 CE-1485 CE)

The Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Period (423-1066 CE) The Middle English Period (c.1066-1450 CE)

3:The Renaissance and Reformation                                (1485-1660 CE)

Early Tudor Period (1485-1558) Elizabethan Period (1558-1603) Jacobean Period(1603-1625) Caroline Age (1625-1649) Commonwealth Period/ Puritan Interregnum(1649-1660)

4:The Enlightenment (Neoclassical) Period                                (1660-1790 CE)

Restoration Period (1660-1700) The Augustan Age (1700-1750) The Age of Johnson (1750-1790)

5:The Romantic Period                                                          (1790-1830 CE)

Romantic poets & Gothic writings

6:The Victorian Period and the 19th  Century                                                                                                                        (1832 -1901 CE)

Sentimental Novels & Intellectual Movements like Aestheticism and the Decadence.

7:The Modern Period                                                               (1914-1945 CE)

Modernist Writers, Realism, etc.

8:The Postmodern Period                                                                                (1945 – Present)

Metafiction, Multiculturalism, Magic Poetry, supernatural, etc.

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Let’s look into it closely and explores the preeminent of English Literature in all-inclusive.

 

1. Old English (Anglo-Saxon Period): 450–1066
2. Middle English Period: 1066-1500
3. Renaissance: 1500-1600
4. Neoclassical Period: 1600-1785
5. Romantic Period: 1785-1832
6. Victorian Age: 1832-1901
7. Edwardian Period: 1901-1914
8. Georgian Period: 1910-1936
9. Modern Period: Early 20th century
10. Postmodern Period: Mid-20th century