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STAGES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE (Pre-Modern Literature: Medieval (This…
STAGES OF ENGLISH LITERATURE
Pre-Modern Literature: Medieval
This literature is influenced by religious themes and haliography (the life of the saints).
Postmodern Literature
Two examples of English postmodern literature are: John Fowles and Julian Barnes. Some important writers of the early 21st century are: Martin Amis, Ian McEwan, Will Self, Andrew Motion and Salman Rushdie.
Early Modern Literature: Renaissance
The Renaissance was a cultural movement present throughout Europe, and it is known as "The Shakespearean Years".
Featured author: W. Shakespeare
Augustus or Neoclassical era literature
The era of the early eighteenth century is known as the era of Augustus or neoclassical literature. The poetry of these years was very formal as evidenced by the works of Alexander Pope.
Featured author: Daniel Defoe
Romanticism
The reaction to industrialization and urbanism pushed poets to explore nature, such as the "Lake Poets" group in which we included William Wordsworth.
Featured author: William Wordsworth
Restoration Literature
The reopening of the theaters provided the opportunity to represent satirical works about the new nobility and the growing bourgeoisie.
Featured author: John Bunyan
Isabeline literature
The Elizabethan era was characterized by being especially fruitful in the area of the theater, being its maximum expression the genre of urban comedy.
Featured author: John Fletcher
Jacobo I era literature
After Shakespeare's death, it was the poet and playwright Ben Jonson who led the Jacobean literature.
Featured author: Ben Jonson
Victorian Literature
The form of literature that gained more importance at this time was the novel. Most authors were more concerned with knowing the tastes of the middle class they read, than in satisfying aristocrats.
Featured author: Charles Dickens
Modern Literature
Between the two World Wars we find important novelists like D.H. Lawrence and Virginia Woolf, member of the Bloomsbury group.
Featured author: Virginia Woolf
