Complete summary of English literary history, including WWI.
Summary: Old English Period, Middle English Period, Neoclassical Period, Romantic Period, Victorian Age, World War I
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Old English (500 BC – 400 AD)................................................................................................................5
How did it all begin:............................................................................................................................5
Old English Language..........................................................................................................................5
Beowulf:.............................................................................................................................................6
Beowulf part 1:...................................................................................................................................6
Beowulf part 2:...................................................................................................................................6
Beowulf themes:.................................................................................................................................6
Old English riddles:.............................................................................................................................7
Explanations Genre:............................................................................................................................7
Riddles:...............................................................................................................................................7
Christianity:........................................................................................................................................7
Anglo-Saxon Chronicles:.....................................................................................................................7
Vikings (800 AD):................................................................................................................................8
Danelaw:.............................................................................................................................................8
Middle English: (1066) 1250 – 1470 (1500)............................................................................................9
Battle of Hastings 1066.......................................................................................................................9
Bayeux tapestry..................................................................................................................................9
Doomsday book..................................................................................................................................9
Consequences of French rule.............................................................................................................9
French ideals introduced..................................................................................................................10
King Arthur romances.......................................................................................................................10
Sir Gawain and the green knight.......................................................................................................10
by the pearl poet..............................................................................................................................10
Great vowel shift (De grote klinkerverschuiving)..............................................................................10
Middle English..................................................................................................................................11
Geoffrey Chaucer..............................................................................................................................11
The Canterbury Tales........................................................................................................................11
Wife of Bath’s Tale............................................................................................................................11
Ballads..............................................................................................................................................12
Rise of drama....................................................................................................................................12
Theatres............................................................................................................................................12
Renaissance......................................................................................................................................12
Religious changes.............................................................................................................................13
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, Social changes..................................................................................................................................13
Henry Vii...........................................................................................................................................13
Wife’s of Henry the VIII.....................................................................................................................13
Christopher Marlowe........................................................................................................................13
William Shakespeare........................................................................................................................14
Hamlet – main points.......................................................................................................................15
MacBeth – Main Points....................................................................................................................15
Love poetry of the renaissance.........................................................................................................16
Sonnets.............................................................................................................................................16
Poets.................................................................................................................................................16
Cavalier poets...................................................................................................................................16
Metaphysical poetry.........................................................................................................................16
The neoclassical period (1660-1880)....................................................................................................17
Reason..............................................................................................................................................17
Puritans............................................................................................................................................17
Rise of the novel...............................................................................................................................17
Jonathan Swift..................................................................................................................................17
Gulliver’s travels...............................................................................................................................18
Book 1: Lilliput.........................................................................................................................18
Book 2: Brobdingnag...............................................................................................................18
Book 3: Several Countries........................................................................................................18
Book 4: Houyhnhnms...............................................................................................................18
Jonathan Swift; A modest proposal..................................................................................................18
Jane Austen 1775 – 1817..................................................................................................................19
The Romantic Period............................................................................................................................20
The Romantic Period........................................................................................................................20
Characteristics of Romantic Poetry...................................................................................................20
William Wordsworth and Samuel Taylor Coleridge..........................................................................20
The Rhyme of ancient mariner.........................................................................................................20
Other romantic poets.......................................................................................................................20
The Victorian Age(1830-1900)..............................................................................................................21
The Victorian age..............................................................................................................................21
Literature in the Victorian age..........................................................................................................21
The Brontë sisters.............................................................................................................................21
Pseudonyms.....................................................................................................................................21
Jane Eyre by Charlotte brontë..........................................................................................................22
Jane Eyre...........................................................................................................................................22
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