A list with an overview of important topics of English Literature History. From the Old English period to the Modern English period. These include the Renaissance, Late Renaissance, Restauration period, Enlightenment, Neo-Classicism, Romantic revolution and the Victorian Era. Here comes important l...
period main topics works of literature
Old English Origin ot English language Faeder Ure (anonymous)
Types of literature Beowulf (anonymous)
Middle English Norman Conquest Canterbury Tales - Prioress’s Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Language changes
Modern English: Origin Merchant of Venice (William Shakespeare)
Renaissance Renaissance vs Middle Ages
Literary forms
War ot Roses
Tudors (Henry VIII; Elizabeth I)
Late Renaissance James I
Charles I
Lord Cromwell
Restauration Charles II Diary of Samuel Pepys
James II
William of Orange & Mary II
Enlightenment Characteristics Enlightenment Robinson Crusoe (Daniel Defoe)
Characteristics literature
Neo-Classicism Historical background Gulliver’s Travels (Jonathan Swift)
Artistic background The Lady’s Dressing Room (Jonathan Swift)
The reasons that induced… (Mary Montagu)
Romantic Revolution Historical background A vindication of… (Mary Wollstonecraft)
Artistic background The Lamb & The Tiger (William Blake)
She dwelt among… (William Wordsworth)
I wandered … (William Wordsworth)
Ozymandias (Percy B. Shelley)
Casabianca (Felicia Hemans)
Victorian Era Historical background Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Artistic background Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
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