British Literary Periods Time Span, Terms, Movements, Examples 600-1200 Old English (Anglo-Saxon) Beowulf 1200-1500 Middle English Geoffrey Chaucer 1500-1660 The English Renaissance 1500-1558 Tudor Period Humanist Era Thomas More, John Skelton 1558-1603 Elizabethan Period High Renaissance Edmund ...
英国概况电子教案 6.7 British Literature英国文化.doc,Chapter 6 British Literature Time Allocation: 4 periods Focal Points: early British literature concerned with Christianity, characteristics of the 19th century literature. Introduction 1) Anglo-Saxon Pe
Literary position 1).She is generally regarded as one of the most prominent Victorian novelists and among the three giants representing the three phases of the time: Dickens for the early phase, George Eliot for the middle, and Thomas Hardy the third and the late. 2).With her the ...
Literary Career: three periods (1) French period (2) Italian period (3) master period 3. The Canterbury Tales A. The Framework; B. The General Prologue; C. The Tale Proper. 4. His Contribution. (1) He introduced from France the rhymed stanza of various types. (2) He is the first ...
2.BritishLiteratureduringRenaissancePeriodWilliamShakespeareHeisthegreatestofallElizabethandramatists.Hisliterarycareerfallsintofourperiods.Hewrote37playsand154sonnets.HissonnetsrepresentthefinestpoeticcraftsmanshipofElizabethanpoetry.Thethemesofhissonnetsareaboutlove,friendship,thedestructiveeffectsoftime,thequicknessofphysical...
Prominent British Literary Periods Anglo-Saxon - 449 Medieval - 1066 Renaissance - 1485 Neoclassical - 1660 Romantic - 1798 Victorian - 1832 Modern - 1900 Anglo-Saxon (449) Characterized by an oral tradition of epic poems, songs, and poetry, Old English or Anglo Saxon literature was well estab...
His literary career falls into four periods. He wrote 3 13、7 plays and 154 sonnets. His sonnets represent the finest poetic craftsmanship of Elizabethan poetry. The themes of his sonnets are about love, friendship, the destructive effects of time, the quickness of physical decay, and the ...
The second part ofBritish Literary Manuscripts Onlineseries,British Literary Manuscripts Online: Medieval and Renaissanceoffers students and researchers unprecedented online access to nearly 400,000 pages of rare manuscripts from the Medieval and Early Modern periods, c.1100 to 1660. Researchers and studen...
British Women Writers in different periods of time The English Renaissance The English Renaissance began in the later part of the fifteenth century and lasted until the 1660s. Among the most famous women writers of this period is Aphra Behn, who is seen as the first professional woman writer ...
New Criticism also appeared at this time, led by the likes ofWoolf,Eliot, William Empson, and others, which reinvigorated literary criticism in general. It is difficult to say whether modernism has ended, though we know that postmodernism has developed after and from it; for now, the genre r...