Periods of English Literature (Dwi Undayasari)

Periods of English Literature (Dwi Undayasari)
A Note on the Naming of Periods :
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Periods in literature are named for fulers, historical events, intellectual or political or religious movement, or artistic styles. Most literary periods therefore have multiple names. What's worse,some of these names are debate. is the later 17th Century the Baroque eta? The term baroque isan intractable term derived from art criticism, though it may usefully be applicableto some writers as well. isthe earlyy 17th Century the Shakespearean era? Is it the Mannerist era? How widely do we wish to apply the term Elizabethan period? Other question arise. Does Romanticism begin with Wordsworth? With Blake?

In Addition, Romanticism has various dates according to the national literature we refer to. In the separate art form -- music, painting, and evensome literary genres -- the dates may vary yet more. Recent histories of literature and the latest Norton Anthology of English Literature offer the latest example of term applied to literary periods. My best advice is to use the relatively neutral names that refer to monarchs, political periods, and whole centuries. Then when you wish to emphasize what you are talking about,rather than by habitual use of terms, use the more specialized artistic and intellectual adjectives.In the following table, I attempt to catagorize some of the references generally used by English and American students of English literature, and to proveide examples of chief works or authors for each period. I've avoided simply naming the Centuries, and I'he not taken terms like Victorian to refer merely to the rulers -- although I do prefer to date Queen Victoria's death,with the changes it syimbolized, as the start ofthe Modern Era. Whereas Queen Victoria riled from 1837 until her death in 1901, many scholars select 1830 as the beginning of theVictorian Period, and for two good reasons. In 1830, the world's first public railway system opened between liverpool and Manchester, enhancing the trade and industrial development particular to the Victorian era. Also in that year, the Reform Parliament opened, which was to pass the Reform Bill of 1832, a bill which would far increse the power of the English middle class and thereby affect British class structure. This list is far less detailed than it might be, and omits details for periods surrounding the Reanaissance.

Literary Periods
Time Span, Terms, movements, Examples

600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) : Beowulf
1200-1500 Middle English : Geoffrey Chaucer
1500-1660 The English Renaisssance
1500-1558 Tudor Period : Humanis Era : Thomas More, John Skelton
1558-1603 Elizabethan Period : High Renaissance : Edmund Spenser, Sir Philip Sidney, William Shakespeare
1603-1625 Jacobean Period : Mannerist Style (1590-1640) other styles: Metaphysical Poets; Devotional Poets : Shakespeare, John Donne, George Herbert, EmiliaLanyer
1625-1649 Caroline Period : John Ford, John Milton
1649-1660 The Commonwealth & The Protectorate : Baroque Style, and later, Rococo Style : Milton, Andrew Marvell, Thomas Hobbes
1660-1700 The Restoration : John Dryden
1700-1800 The Eighteenth Century : The Enlightenment; Neoclassical Period; The Augustan Age : Alexander Pope, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson
1785-1830 Romanticism : The Age Revolution : WilliamWordsworth, S.T. Coleridge, Jane Austen, The Brontes
1830-1901 Victorian Period : Early, Middle and Late Victorian : Charles Dickens, George Eliot, Robert Browning, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
1901-1960 Modern Period : The Edwardian Era (1901-1910); The Georgian Era (1910-1914) : G.M Hopkins, H.G. Wells, James Joiyce, D.H. Lawrence, T.S. Ellot
1960- Postmoder and Contemporary Period : Ted hughes, Doris Lessing, John Fowlers, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt

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