• Mix of native Britonic and tribal Germanic language

• Use of alliteration and kennings

• Poetry often heroic, lyric, or Christian-themed

Writers or Poets:

• Caedmon

• Cynewulf

Examples:

• Beowulf (Heroic Poetry)

• The Wanderer (Lyric Poetry)

• Dream of the Rood (Christian Poetry)

• Influence of Norman Conquest

• French spoken by upper class, Old English by commoners

• Early development of universities

Writers or Poets:

• Geoffrey of Monmouth

• Layamon

Examples:

• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

• Brut

• English literature becomes established

• Poetry often reflects society and historical events

• Rise of vernacular English literature

Writers or Poets:

• Geoffrey Chaucer

• William Langland

Examples:

• The Canterbury Tales

• Piers Plowman

• Troilus and Cressida

• Reformation and printing press

• Introduction of new religious ideas

• Rise of humanism

Writers or Poets:

• Thomas Malory

• William Tyndale

• Erasmus

Examples:

• Le Morte d’Arthur

• Tyndale’s Bible

• Golden Age of English literature

• Renaissance spirit of exploration

• Flourishing of drama and poetry

Writers or Poets:

• William Shakespeare

• Christopher Marlowe

• Edmund Spenser

Examples:

• Hamlet

• The Faerie Queene

• Doctor Faustus

• Complex, darker themes in literature

• Gunpowder Treason

• Increasing influence of metaphysical poetry

Writers or Poets:

• John Donne

• Ben Jonson

Examples:

• The Duchess of Malfi

• Songs and Sonnets (John Donne)

• Conflict leading to English Civil War

• Royalist themes vs. Puritan ideology in literature

• Development of metaphysical and Cavalier poetry

Writers or Poets:

• Ben Jonson

• George Chapman

• John Webster

• Thomas Middleton

• George Herbert

• Robert Herrick

Examples:

• The fair maid of the Inn

• To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time

• Banning of theaters

• Rise of Puritan ideals in literature

• Focus on moral and religious themes

Writers or Poets:

• John Milton

• John Bunyan

Examples:

• Pilgrim’s Progress

• Paradise Lost

• Lifting of theater ban, rise of Restoration comedy

• Satirical literature flourishes

• Secularization of society

Writers or Poets:

• John Dryden

• William Congreve

• John Vanbrugh

• Aphra Behn

• Thomas Rymer

Examples:

• The Way of the World

• All for Love

• Focus on reason, science, and progress

• Prose and satire dominant forms

• Rise of the novel as a literary form

Writers or Poets:

• Alexander Pope

• Jonathan Swift

• Richard Steele

• Joseph Addison

• Daniel Defoe

• Henry Fielding

• Samuel Richardson

Examples:

• Gulliver’s Travels

• The Rape of the Lock

• Emphasis on nature, emotion, and individualism

• Reaction against industrialization

• Idealization of rural life

Writers or Poets:

• William Wordsworth

• John Keats

• Samuel Taylor Coleridge

• Robert Southey

• P.B. Shelley

• Lord Byron

Examples:

• Lyrical Ballads

• Ode to a Nightingale

• Don Juan

• Industrial Revolution and social reform

• Exploration of morality and religion

• Rise of the British working-class movement

Writers or Poets:

• Charles Dickens

• Alfred Tennyson

• Gerald Manley Hoplins

• D. G. Rossetti

• Emily Bronte

• Anne Bronte

• Oscar Wilde

Examples:

• Great Expectations

• Wuthering Heights

• In Memoriam A.H.H.

• Fragmentation of society post-World War I

• Psychological depth and non-linear narratives

• Literary experimentation (e.g., stream of consciousness)

Writers or Poets:

• T.S. Eliot

• Virginia Woolf

• James Joyce

• Joseph Conrad

• George Orwell

• D. H. Lawrance

Examples:

• The Waste Land

• Ulysses

• Mrs Dalloway

• Celebration of absurdity and disorientation

• Deconstruction of traditional forms

• Focus on fragmentation and disillusionment

Writers or Poets:

• Samuel Beckett

• Harold Pinter

• Sylvia Plath

• Philip Larkin

• Agatha Christie

• Angela Carter

Examples:

• Waiting for Godot

• The Bell Jar

• The Homecoming

Literatura enfocada a las habilidades lectoras

Mtra: Vania Soledad Cruz Barrón

Realizado por: Natalia Alejandra Olivares Peralta